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Genre
  
Drama

Screenplay
  
Writer
  
Sang-soo Im

Language
  
6.6/10
IMDb

Director
  
Music director
  
Kim Hong-Jip

Duration
  

Country
  
South Korea

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Release date
  
August 14, 2003 (2003-08-14)

Initial release
  
August 15, 2003 (South Korea)

Cast
  
Moon So-Ri
(Eun, Ho-jeong),
Kim In-Mun
(Ju, Chang-geun),
Jeong-rim Baek
(Kim, Yeon), (Shin, JiWoon),
Yun Yeo-Jeong
(Hong, Byeong-han),
Hwang Jeong-Min

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A Good Lawyers Wife (Hangul: ; RR: Baramnan Kajok) is a 2003 South Korean film written and directed by Im Sang-soo. The film is about the various affairs of members of a dysfunctional South Korean family.

Contents

Bored, horny, and frustrated, a woman begins an affair with a teenage boy.

Plot

A Good Lawyers Wife movie scenes

Ju Yeong-jak (Hwang Jung-min) is a successful lawyer who works long hours. While he is working, his wife Eun Ho-jeong (Moon So-ri), who gave up her dancing career in order to be "a good lawyers wife," raises their young adopted son (Kim Young-chan) and works as a dance instructor in the local gym.

Ju Yeong-jaks father, Ju Chang-geun (Kim In-mun), an alcoholic with a terminal liver failure, has not slept with his wife Hong Byung-han (Youn Yuh-jung) in 15 years. She is having an affair with another man, and when Chang-geun finally dies, she tells Yeong-jak and Ho-jeong about her relationship with the other man���an old friend from her grade school���and says that she even plans to marry him. Her daughter-in-law Ho-jeong supports her.

A Good Lawyers Wife movie scenes Firstly the English title of this film A Good Lawyer s Wife doesn t make a whole lot of sense I had a think about it and came to an unsatisfying

Ho-jeong herself cannot achieve an orgasm from Yeong-jak. But for reasons that are not made clear in the English subtitles, he is not satisfied by her either and is having an affair with Kim Yeon, a younger woman who is an artist and a former model (Baek Jeong-rim). He receives from Yeon the satisfaction he lacks at home.

A Good Lawyers Wife movie scenes Like Director Im s other woman centred films A Good Lawyer s wife is very direct in its representation of female sexuality and female desire

When Ho-jeong catches her teenage neighbor Shin Ji-woon (Bong Tae-gyu) peeping on her undressing in her apartment, she is, at first, angered. But she then decides to fulfill his peeping wish and allows him to see her doing nude gymnastics through the window. He then follows her on his bike and even barges into her dance class. She eventually follows him to the cinema where they talk. As they watch a movie, she teases him by acting oblivious to him groping her breasts.

Meanwhile, Yeong-jak runs a drunk motor cyclist off the road while receiving a blowjob from his young mistress. Yeong-jak takes the man to a hospital but drops off his girlfriend on the way; his primary concern is that the presence of his girlfriend not become public knowledge. Due to the other drivers reputation as a quarrelsome eccentric alcoholic, the authorities assume that the other driver is entirely responsible for the crash.

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Yeong-jak promises the man (Sung Ji-roo), a postman who needs to be able to drive to keep his job, that if the postman does not mention that there was a woman in the car he will use his legal connections to make sure that the man does not suffer any consequences for having been driving while drunk.

One evening, after she Ho-jeong finally learns about her husbands affair, she tells Ji-woon to follow her without giving any details except suggestively saying "I hope youll be okay." She takes him to the abandoned dance hall. Without exchanging a word, she just allows him to mount her, but he soon stops and rolls aside (apparently the victim of premature ejaculation). Not giving up, she fellates him. She then mounts him herself while at the same time giving him a handjob, moving in spasms and moaning loudly as she finally gains her long sought orgasm.

Ji-woons father soon finds out about their affair and exposes it to Yeong-jak, unaware that Yeong-jak apparently does not care what his wife does. However, Yeong-jak fails to keep his promise to the postman. The postman kidnaps Yeong-jaks adopted son and throws him off a building to his death. The postman then commits suicide.

Yeong-jak and Ho-jeong are devastated by their sons death. Ho-jeong blames Yeong-jak for starting the chain of circumstances that ended with the murder/suicide.

The story ends on an enigmatic note. Ho-jeong discovers than she is pregnant and knows that Yeong-jak cannot be the father. He offers to accept the child as his own but she informs him that he is "out of the picture."

It is unclear from the final scene if Yeong-jak is hurt or relieved by her announcement.

The story also addresses the legacy of the Korean War and its impact on many families. Yeong-jaks father and grandfather escaped from the communist north���apparently during the war. Yeong-jaks grandmother and his fathers sisters remained in the north and "perished". Yeong-jaks father is last seen in the final stages of dementia singing a communist anthem honoring North Korean leader Kim Il-sung.

Yeong-jak goes out into the country to inform his grandfather of the death and discovers that his grandfather has been dead for six months, and that his grandfathers young female companion had not notified the other members of the family.

There is also a subplot about the excavation of a mass grave containing the remains of Korean civilians who were killed���apparently by the communists���during the Korean War.

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Youn Yuh-jung and Moon So-ri appear in A Good Lawyers Wife and In Another Country. Youn Yuh-jung appears in A Good Lawyers Wife and The Taste of Money. Hwang Jung-min appears in A Good Lawyers Wife and Waikiki Brothers. Youn Yuh-jung and Moon So-ri appear in A Good Lawyers Wife and Hahaha. Moon So-ri and Kim Yeo-jin appear in A Good Lawyers Wife and Peppermint Candy.

Awards and nominations

2003 Venice Film Festival

  • Nomination - Golden Lion - Im Sang-soo
  • 2003 Stockholm Film Festival

  • Best Actress - Moon So-ri
  • Best Cinematography - Kim Woo-hyung
  • 2003 Chunsa Film Art Awards

  • Best Actress - Moon So-ri
  • 2003 Busan Film Critics Awards

  • Best Actress - Moon So-ri
  • Best Supporting Actress - Youn Yuh-jung
  • 2003 Korean Film Awards

  • Best Actress - Moon So-ri
  • Best Supporting Actress - Youn Yuh-jung
  • 2003 Directors Cut Awards

  • Best Actress - Moon So-ri
  • Best New Actor - Bong Tae-gyu
  • 2004 Grand Bell Awards

  • Best Actress - Moon So-ri
  • 2004 Deauville American Film Festival

  • Best Film
  • References

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