| Five Senses of Eros | |||||||||
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| Director: | Daniel H. Byun Hur Jin-ho Yoo Young-sik Min Kyu-dong Oh Ki-hwan | ||||||||
| Producer: | Choi Soon-sik Kim Won-guk Min Jin-su | ||||||||
| Starring: | Jang Hyuk Cha Hyun-jung Kim Kang-woo Cha Soo-yeon Kim Su-ro Bae Jong-ok Kim Min-sun Uhm Jung-hwa Kim Hyo-jin Kim Dong-wook Lee Si-young Jung Eui-chul Shin Se-kyung Song Joong-ki Lee Sung-min | ||||||||
| Music: | Choi Man-sik Choi Yong-rak Kim Jun-seong | ||||||||
| Cinematography: | Kim Mu-yu Yun Ji-woon Go Nak-seon Kim Byeong-seo Kim Jun-young Kim Yeong-heung | ||||||||
| Editing: | Hahm Sung-won Choi Jae-geun Seong Su-a | ||||||||
| Distributor: | Daisy & Cinergy Entertainment | ||||||||
| Runtime: | 130 minutes | ||||||||
| Country: | South Korea | ||||||||
| Language: | Korean | ||||||||
| Gross: | [1] | ||||||||
Five Senses of Eros is a 2009 South Korean omnibus film with five short films depicting love and desire, but in different styles and genres. The shorts are: His Concern, directed by Daniel H. Byun; I'm Right Here, directed by Hur Jin-ho; The 33rd Man, directed by Yoo Young-sik; In My End Is My Beginning, directed by Min Kyu-dong; and Believe in the Moment, directed by Oh Ki-hwan.[2] [3] [4]
The five directors are all graduates of the Korean Academy of Film Arts.[5] The film received 438,501 admissions nationwide.[6]
A man is attracted by the woman sitting across from him on a train ride to Busan. He gets off the train after her, even though it's not his stop. He gets her phone number. A few days later the man plans to meet the woman for the second time.
Hye-rim waits for her husband, while hiding, to give him a surprise. Hyeon-woo always worries about his wife being left alone at home. But Hye-rim worries more about Hyeon-woo because he will be left alone soon.
On the set of a movie, newbie actress Mi-jin and senior actress Hwa-ran are having difficulties because of their stubborn and demanding director. The charismatic Hwa-ran transforms Mi-jin into a sexy vixen to seduce Director Bong.
Jung-ha's husband Jae-in has just died in a car accident. She then discovers that he was having an affair with her old high school friend Na-ru. Na-ru comes to Jung-ha and asks to live with her, promising to atone through unconditional devotion.
Three couples are all high school students and close friends. None of the couples are certain about their relationships, so they decide to exchange partners for 24 hours.
See main article: In My End Is My Beginning. Min Kyu-dong later expanded his short, and a feature-length director's cut of In My End Is My Beginning was screened at the 2009 Busan International Film Festival,[8] then received a theatrical release in 2013.[9]