| Beyond the Years | |||||||||||
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| Director: | Im Kwon-taek | ||||||||||
| Producer: | Lee Hee-won Kim Jong-won | ||||||||||
| Starring: | Cho Jae-hyun Oh Jung-hae Oh Seung-eun | ||||||||||
| Music: | Kunihiko Ryo | ||||||||||
| Cinematography: | Jeong Il-seong | ||||||||||
| Editing: | Park Soon-deok | ||||||||||
| Studio: | Kino2 | ||||||||||
| Distributor: | Prime Entertainment | ||||||||||
| Runtime: | 106 minutes | ||||||||||
| Country: | South Korea | ||||||||||
| Language: | Korean | ||||||||||
| Gross: | [1] | ||||||||||
Beyond the Years is a 2007 South Korean drama film. Celebrating director Im Kwon-taek's 100th film, it is based on the short fiction "The Wanderer of Seonhak-dong" by Lee Cheong-jun, and was presented at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival.[2] Despite being an informal sequel to Im's phenomenally successful Sopyonje (1993), Beyond the Years was not popular with Korean audiences.[3]
Dong-ho and Song-hwa are separately adopted by Yu-bong (Im Jin-taek), a nomadic singer, and grow up as siblings. Dong-ho falls in love with Song-hwa, but he suffers from the fact that he has to call her sister and constantly fight with Yu-bong's obsession to make her a great singer. Eventually, Dong-ho leaves home. However, with his unchanging affection for Song-hwa, he keeps following traces of his love while refining his drumming skills in order to match well with her singing. This is the heart-touching love story of Song-hwa, who devotes her life and love to her talent for Pansori (a traditional Korean form of narrative song), and Dong-ho, who has devoted his life to loving her.