3 June 2014

The Harmonium in My Memory (South Korea, 1999)

Hong-yun is a high school girl in little mountain village when she falls head-over-heels for a handsome new school teacher, Mr. Jang. What with taking care of her youngest baby brother for her widowed mother and the impossible age difference, it is a roller-coaster ride for her as she tries to become someone special for Mr. Jang while he seems interested in the other new teacher at the school, Miss Yang.

The Harmonium in My Memory stars two fantastic actors in the lead roles: Byung-hun Lee who you might recognize from films such as A Bittersweet Life (2005) and I Saw the Devil (2010), and  Jeon Do-yeon, who's starred in great films like Happy End (1999) and Secret Sunshine (2007). This could have been just another romance film, but fortunately, they turned down the age of the love interest to seventeen and placed her in a messy high school. A fun love story with an age gap, this should be your next film if you want something lighthearted and sweet.

Genre: Drama/Romance

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