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The Weight (Korean: 무게; RR: Muge) is a 2012 South Korean film about a hunchback mortician and his transgender stepsister. It made its world premiere in the Venice Days sidebar of the 69th Venice International Film Festival, where it won the 2012 Queer Lion, an award for the "best film with a homosexual and queer culture theme."
Nov 7, 2013 · The Weight, portrays the life of Jung (Cho Jae-Huyn) who grew up as an orphan and was adopted into a family of only a mother and a son. Jung is now a hunchback man due to scoliosis and is a live-in mortician taking care of corpses in the most eerie manner.
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- Drama
- Jeon Kyu-hwan
- 2013-11-07
Born with a hunchback and left at an orphana... more. Jung is the mortician at the morgue who has to heavily rely on medicine for his severe tuberculosis and arthritis. Despite his illness, cleansing and dressing the dead is a noble and even beautiful work to him.
Under the love hate relationship with his sibling and under the weight of life and death carried by the dead bodies that he faces each day, Jung endures the pain and thirst that he feels like a...
- James Mudge
- Drama
- Jeon Kyu-Hwan
Nov 7, 2013 · Synopsis. Jung is the mortician at the morgue who has to heavily rely on medicine for his severe tuberculosis and arthritis. Despite his illness, cleansing and dressing the dead is a noble and even beautiful work to him. Jung is the last living person who silently takes care of the dead.
- Jeon Kyu-Hwan
The Weight is a film directed by Jeon Kyu-hwan with Cho Jae-yun, Park Ji-a. Year: 2012. Original title: The Weight. Synopsis: Jung has found his place in the world working at a morgue. His coexistence with corpses and blood seems to go by with a very strange naturalness.
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