Late Spring

[Machine Translation] A woman takes off everything and blossoms. Winner of three awards at the Milan International Film Festival, including Best Film! A beautiful and ephemeral melodrama and a literary erotic gem that has been praised around the world! --1969, the Vietnam War casts a dark shadow over Korea. Jung-gu (Park Young-woo), a genius sculptor suffering from an incurable disease that causes paralysis of the entire body, is recuperating in a beautiful lakeside countryside town on the advice of his wife (Kim So-hyun). The wife, unable to bear the sight of her husband who has given up creating and lost hope for life, brings Min-kyung ( Lee Yu-young ), a simple but beautiful girl from the town, to help him find a model and regain his creative will. Jung-gu gradually regains his vigor as he resumes creating in his lakeside studio with Min-kyeong as his model, and Min-kyeong, too, is freed from the pain of her miserable home life and begins to regain her original brightness. The relationship between Jung-gu and Min-kyung gradually grows deeper and deeper, transcending the relationship between sculptor and model.

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女は全てを脱ぎ捨てて、花開く。ミラノ国際映画祭で最優秀作品賞ほか三冠を達成! 世界中が賞賛した美しくも儚い極上のメロドラマにして、珠玉の文芸エロス!! ――1969年、ベトナム戦争が韓国にも暗い影を落としていた時代。全身の麻痺が進む難病を抱えた天才的な彫刻家ジュング(パク・ヨンウ)は、妻(キム・ソヒョン)の勧めで美しい湖畔の田舎町で療養していた。創作を断念し、生きる希望も失った夫を見かねた妻は、モデルを探して夫の創作意欲を取り戻させようと、素朴ながらも美しい町娘ミンギョン(イ・ユヨン)を連れてくる。湖畔のアトリエでミンギョンをモデルに創作を再開したジュングは徐々に活力を取り戻し、ミンギョンもまた悲惨な家庭生活の辛さから解放され、本来の明るさを取り戻しつつあった。やがてふたりは彫刻家とモデルという関係を超え、徐々に深い絆で結ばれていくのだが・・・。

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