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Wikipedia article




{{Infobox film

| name = An Affair

| image = An Affair movie poster.jpg

| caption = Theatrical poster

| native_name =

| director = E J-yong

| producer = Oh Jeong-wan
Lee Se-ho

| writer = Kim Dae-woo
E J-yong

| starring = Lee Mi-sook
Lee Jung-jae
Song Yeong-chang

| music = Jo Seong-woo

| cinematography = Kim Young-cheol

| editing = Hahm Sung-won

| distributor =

| released =

| runtime = 108 minutes

| country = South Korea

| language = Korean

| budget =

}}

'An Affair' is a 1998 South Korean film. The quiet film about a woman who falls in love with her sister's fianc was the seventh-highest-grossing Korean film of 1998 and won the Best Asian Film award at the 1999 Newport Beach International Film Festival.

Plot



Seo-hyun is an ordinary housewife in her late thirties with a ten-year-old son and a successful architect husband. For Seo-hyun, life is a series of banal routines, but she is well provided with upper class comforts. Her sheltered life is suddenly threatened with the appearance of U-in, her much younger sister's attractive new fianc. U-in approaches Seo-hyun and attraction evolves into a passionate affair. Seo-hyun is aware that falling for the younger man will destroy her and her family, but she cannot help herself and the new feelings that are stirring within...

Cast list



Lee Mi-sook as Seo-hyun


Lee Jung-jae as U-in


Kim Min as Ji-hyun

References




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