| Wide Awake | |||||||||
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| Director: | Lee Gyu-man | ||||||||
| Producer: | Gang Seong-gyu | ||||||||
| Starring: | Kim Myung-min | ||||||||
| Music: | Choi Seung-hyun | ||||||||
| Cinematography: | Kim Dong-eun | ||||||||
| Editing: | Steve M. Choe Kim Chang-ju | ||||||||
| Distributor: | CJ Entertainment | ||||||||
| Runtime: | 115 minutes | ||||||||
| Country: | South Korea | ||||||||
| Language: | Korean | ||||||||
Wide Awake (; also known as Return) is a 2007 South Korean film.
In 1980s South Korea, a young boy is traumatised after experiencing anesthesia awareness during heart surgery, and no-one believes his story afterwards. Twenty-five years later, the doctors and nurses who operated on him begin to die under mysterious circumstances. Dr. Ryu Jae-woo, a surgeon married to Hee-jin, believes that the boy he remembers from his childhood is responsible for the deaths. The leading suspects are Lee Myeong-suk, who has been stalking Dr. Ryu, and the seemingly unhinged Uk-hwan. Hypnosis specialist Oh Chi-hoon also seems to know something about these deaths.
Wide Awake was released in South Korea on 8 August 2007,[1] and its opening weekend was ranked fourth at the box office with 238,819 admissions.[2] The film went on to receive a total of 677,939 admissions nationwide, with a gross (as of 16 September 2007) of US$4,569,126.[3]