Boy, Goes to Heaven (2005) - 소년, 천국에 가다 (So-nyeon, Cheon-gook-e Ga-da)

Domestic Movies With English Subtitles

Source | 2006/03/23 | Permalink |

Boy, Goes to Heaven(Sonyon, Chonguge Kada) (2005)

Seoul Selection Bookstore

At 11:00 a.m. on Saturday

Staring Park Hae-il and Yeom Jeong-ah, the film is a love story between a single mother and a 13-year-old boy with a 33-year-old man's body. Ne-mo (played by Park), the son of a single mother, dreams of marrying a single mother like his. And he happens to meet one from a comic book rental shop, whose name is Pu-ja (Yeom). But his romance faces a crisis as he dies in an attempt to save her son Ki-chol at a burning theater. When he wakes up, he finds himself in heaven. To meet Pu-ja again, Ne-mo begs an angel to bring his life back, but the angel lets him live again on condition that he grows a year older every day. When he finally gets back on earth, he is now 33 years old, and he only has 60 days left until he dies as he was originally scheduled to go heaven at age 93. Venue: Seoul Selection Bookstore. Located near Anguk Station on subway line 3. Tickets 3,000 won. Details: (0...| More

'Boy, Goes to Heaven' conjures up body-transference fantasy tale

Source | 2005/11/04 | Permalink |

If you are not a fanatic fan of the cinematic fantasyland, especially the body-transference genre in which a boy turns into an adult overnight, stop reading here.

Now that you've ignored the kind warning and decided to read on at your own risk, there's one more thing you have to do. What is the 1988 body-swap classic film in the United States? The BIG hint: Tom Hanks starred in it.

The answer is of course "Big", and this silly question-and-answer has something to do with "Boy, Goes to Heaven", the latest Korean boy-into-a-man film directed by Yoon Tae-yong.

Both films belong to the peculiar genre, and their backgrounds are set in the 1980s. Unfortunately, their similarity ends just there. While "Big" is a hilarious body-swap comedy that showcases Hanks's amazingly flawless acting, "Boy, Goes to Heaven" is a fantasy-driven melodrama that evokes not so much laughter as memories about the 1980s.

And number "three" seems important in "Boy, Goes to Heaven" as the boy in question...| More