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Director: | Song Il-gon | ||||||
Producer: | Kim Jeong-hui Moon Bo-mi | ||||||
Starring: | So Ji-sub Han Hyo-joo | ||||||
Music: | Choe Cheol-su Bang Jun-seok | ||||||
Cinematography: | Hong Kyung-pyo | ||||||
Editing: | Nam Na-yeong | ||||||
Story: | Jang Hyun-sung | ||||||
Studio: | 51K | ||||||
Distributor: | Showbox/Mediaplex | ||||||
Runtime: | 106 minutes | ||||||
Country: | South Korea | ||||||
Language: | Korean | ||||||
Gross: | [1] |
Always (; lit. Only You) is a 2011 South Korean romantic action drama film directed by Song Il-gon and stars So Ji-sub and Han Hyo-joo in the lead roles. The film is about a romance between an ex-boxer, who has closed his heart to the world, and a telemarketer, who remains spirited despite slowly going blind.[2]
It was released in theaters on October 20, 2011.[3] In South Korea, the film had a total of 1,027,614 admissions nationwide.[4] With online tickets selling out a 2,000-seat outdoor movie theater in a record seven seconds,[5] Always was the opening film of the 2011 Busan International Film Festival.[6]
The film was officially remade in 2014 in Turkish as Sadece Sen. It has also been remade in Kannada in 2015 as Boxer and in Hindi in 2016 as Do Lafzon Ki Kahani.[9] A Japanese remake, titled Your Eyes Tell, starring Ryusei Yokohama and Yuriko Yoshitaka, was released on October 23, 2020.[10] A Filipino remake, titled Always, starring Kim Chiu and Xian Lim was released on September 28, 2022.