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Director
  
Park Jae-Ho

Music director
  
Uhm In-ho

Story by
  
Peque Gallaga

Writer
  
Jeong-hak Lee

Language
  
5.6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama, Thriller

Screenplay
  
Yu Gap-yeol

Duration
  

Country
  
South Korea

Kim Ji-hyun lying on the bed while wearing pink silk sleepwear in a movie scene from the 2001 film Summertime
Release date
  
May 26, 2001 (2001-05-26)

Based on
  
Scorpio Nights by Peque Gallaga

Initial release
  
May 26, 2001 (South Korea)

Cast
  
Kim Ji-Hyeon
(Hie-ran), (Tae-yeol),
Ryu Su-Yeong
(Sang-ho),
Jang Seong-won


Similar
  
Marriage Is a Crazy Thing, Green Chair, Five Senses of Eros

Summertime (Hangul썸머타임; RRSseommeotaim) is a 2001 South Korean film directed by Park Jae-ho and starring Ryu Soo-young and Kim Ji-hyun. A remake of the controversial Philippine film Scorpio Nights (1985), the film was also inspired by the Gwangju massacre.

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Ryu Soo-young and Kim Ji-hyun kissing each other in a movie scene from the 2001 film Summertime

SUMMER TIME Official Int'l Main Trailer


Plot

Ryu Soo-young and Kim Ji-hyun in the movie poster of the 2001 film Summertime

Set in the 1980s, Sang-ho is a student activist hiding out in a small rural village. He accidentally witnesses, through a hole on the floor of his second story room, a married couple having sex. He discovers he is a voyeur at heart and becomes bolder and bolder in his actions. One day, he gets an opportunity to play out his fantasies. When the husband is not home, Sang-ho goes downstairs. Imitating the husband's manner of foreplay even down to the sequence, the young man has sex with the wife. She, like Sang-ho, is a prisoner of the house. The second time he comes to her, he touches her in a different way which makes her turn around and discover that there is a stranger in her bed. But this does not deter her as she reaches out to him for an intense embrace. The husband, Tae-yeol, is an ex-policeman fired for alleged corruption, and his wife Hee-ran, who was raped by him as a young girl, for the sake of status quo has ended up as his wife and prisoner.

Cast

Ryu Soo-young looking at Kim Ji-hyun in a movie scene from the 2001 film Summertime
  • Ryu Soo-young as Sang-ho
  • Kim Ji-hyun as Hee-ran
  • Choi Cheol-ho as Tae-yeol
  • Song Ok-sook as Gi-ok
  • Bae Jeong-yun as Young-mi
  • Choi Seong-min
  • Yun Yeong-keol
  • Jang Seong-won
  • Kim Seon-hwa
  • Lee Seung-hun
  • Ahn Byeong-kyeong
  • Park Hoon-jung as child in the playground

  • Ryu Soo-young looking at Kim Ji-hyun's sad face in a movie scene from the 2001 film Summertime

    Ryu Soo-young wearing a red jacket and blue t-shirt in a movie scene from the 2001 film Summertime

    Kim Ji-Hyun smiling while dancing in a movie scene from the 2001 film Summertime
    Kim Ji-Hyun holding a drinking glass in a movie scene from the 2001 film Summertime

    References

    Summertime (2001 film) Wikipedia
    Summertime (2001 film) IMDb Summertime (2001 film) themoviedb.org