[HanCinema s Film Review] A Man and a Gisaeng + Full Movie hancinema.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from hancinema.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
2021/05/14
The inheritance from America seems to have been a world-wide trend during the 60s, with people all around the world fantasizing about a rich distant relative or someone from the past sending them a large sum of money from the land of opportunity .
Kim Soo-yong uses the concept as his base for a situational comedy drama, which also functions as a critique on how money can change people.
Maeng Soon-jin is an ordinary salaryman, if perhaps somewhat naive (as his name literally signifies), who barely makes ends meet with the meager salary he receives from the company he works for. The fact is presented quite eloquently in the beginning of the film, where Soon-jin is portrayed having various women (one of which is mentioned as a loan-shark) take almost all of his money, including his landlady s daughter, In-sook. Despite his general situation though, both the aforementioned and his boss s daughter, Gwang-hee, seem to like him, occasionally even competing for his not part