| Pain | |||||||||
| Producer: | Lee Ji-seung | ||||||||
| Screenplay: | Han Soo-ryun | ||||||||
| Story: | Kang Full | ||||||||
| Music: | Kim Jun-seong | ||||||||
| Cinematography: | Hwang Ki-seok | ||||||||
| Editing: | Kim Sang-bum Kim Jae-bum | ||||||||
| Distributor: | Lotte Entertainment | ||||||||
| Runtime: | 104 minutes | ||||||||
| Country: | South Korea | ||||||||
| Language: | Korean | ||||||||
| Gross: | [1] | ||||||||
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Pained (; lit. "Pain") is a 2011 South Korean romantic melodrama film directed by Kwak Kyung-taek.[2] [3] [4] Kwak's first feature in three years, it is a romantic melodrama set in Seoul, which is a departure from the director's previous Busan-based masculine thrillers and gangster movies. It is adapted from an original story by webtoon artist Kang Full.[5]
Debt collector Nam-soon (Kwon Sang-woo) lost his sense of pain after a traumatic accident during his youth, and now regularly takes beatings for his job. Street vendor Dong-hyun (Jung Ryeo-won) suffers from severe hemophilia, a disorder that impedes the body's ability to stop bleeding. For Dong-hyun, even the most minor of injuries could be deadly. She's left homeless after Nam-soon collects the last of her money, so he decides to take her in. As the two grow closer, Nam-soon suddenly begins to lose his lifelong insensitivity to pain and the hurt of a lifetime washes over him. Together, these two lonely souls learn to hurt and hope again...