| Miracle on 1st Street | |||||||||||
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| Director: | Yoon Je-kyoon | ||||||||||
| Producer: | Yoon Je-kyoon Heo Tae-gu | ||||||||||
| Starring: | Im Chang-jung Ha Ji-won | ||||||||||
| Music: | Lee Byung-woo | ||||||||||
| Cinematography: | Kim Young-chul | ||||||||||
| Editing: | Shin Min-kyung | ||||||||||
| Distributor: | CJ Entertainment | ||||||||||
| Runtime: | 113 minutes | ||||||||||
| Country: | South Korea | ||||||||||
| Language: | Korean | ||||||||||
| Gross: | [1] | ||||||||||
Miracle on 1st Street is a 2007 South Korean comedy-drama film. Written and directed by Yoon Je-kyoon, it reunited him with actors Im Chang-jung and Ha Ji-won, the stars of his earlier film Sex Is Zero. With 2,750,457 admissions, Miracle on 1st Street was the 5th most popular Korean film of 2007.[2]
Pil-je is a gangster who has been sent by his bosses to evict the residents of a poor neighborhood on the edge of Seoul, so that their homes can make way for some new luxury apartments. But after he befriends some of the locals, including female boxer Myung-ran and a group of young children, he starts to have a change of heart.
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