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Boy Goes to Heaven
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox film
| name = Boy Goes to Heaven
| image = Boy Goes To Heaven film poster.jpg
| caption = Theatrical poster
| native_name =
| director = Yoon Tae-yong
| producer = Cha Seung-jae
Kim Mi-hee
Kim Yeong-dae
Kim Sun-ho
| writer = Park Seong-kyeong
Park Chan-wook
Lee Moo-yeong
Choi Dong-hoon
Yoon Tae-yong
| starring = Yum Jung-ah
Park Hae-il
| music = Dalpalan
Jang Young-gyu
| cinematography = Lee Jun-gyu
| editing = Kim Sang-bum
Kim Jae-bum
| studio = Sidus FNH
Christmas Entertainment
| distributor = Showbox
Chungeorahm
| released =
| runtime = 114 minutes
| country = South Korea
| language = Korean
| budget =
| gross =
}}
'Boy Goes to Heaven' , also known as 'A Boy Who Went to Heaven', is a 2005 South Korean film directed by Yoon Tae-yong, starring Yum Jung-ah and Park Hae-il.
Plot
Ne-mo is a thirteen-year-old boy growing up in 1980s South Korea, and is the only child of a single mother who runs a watch repair shop in their small town. Having never met his father, Ne-mo resolves to marry a single mother when he is older. Following the suicide of his mother, Ne-mo becomes acquainted with Bu-ja, who opens a comic shop in his town. Bu-ja is also a single mother with a young son of her own, and Ne-mo instantly falls in love with her. Despite their age difference he proposes to her in a movie theater, but a fire breaks out and Ne-mo is killed saving Bu-ja's son.
Waking up in Heaven, Ne-mo finds himself in the middle of an argument between two angels, who can't agree whether his life was supposed to end at the age of thirteen or ninety-three. As a compromise they return him to Earth several days after he died, except he is now thirty-three years old and will age one year every day until he reaches ninety-three. Now an adult and with just sixty days left to live, Ne-mo poses as his own father and resumes his pursuit of Bu-ja.
Cast
* Yum Jung-ah ... Bu-ja
* Park Hae-il ... adult Ne-mo
* Oh Kwang-rok
* Park Eun-soo
* Jeong Jin-gak
* Kim Kwan-woo ... young Ne-mo
* Hong So-yeon
* Jo Min-su ... Ne-mo's mother (cameo)
Release
'Boy Goes to Heaven' opened in South Korea on 11 November 2005, and was ranked fourth at the box office on its opening weekend with 109,186 admissions."[http://www.hancinema.net/korean_boxoffice.php?weekend=2005.11.11+~+2005.11.13 Korean Box Office Week-end 2005.11.11 ~ 2005.11.13]". 'Hancinema'. Retrieved 21 May 2009. The film went on to accumulate a total of 242,053 admissions nationwide."[http://www.koreanfilm.org/films2005.html#boxoffice Box-Office Results (2005)]". 'Koreanfilm.org'. Retrieved 21 May 2009.
Critical response
In a review for 'The Korea Herald', Yang Sung-jin praised the performance of child actor Kim Kwan-woo as "impressive and believable" and found Park Hae-il "true to form" as one of South Korea's leading actors, but criticized Yum Jung-ah for her "hackneyed" and over-emphasised sexuality. Yang also regarded the relationship between the two main characters as inappropriate, noting that Bu-ja promises to marry Ne-mo when he is still a child and later has sex with him falsely believing that he is an adult, saying that while the character "is not a pedophile... she clearlyand at least initiallydoesn't have motives as pure-hearted as Nae-mo's."Yang, Sung-jin (4 November 2005). "[http://www.hancinema.net/-boy-goes-to-heaven-conjures-up-body-transference-fantasy-tale-4359.html 'Boy, Goes to Heaven' conjures up body-transference fantasy tale]". 'Hancinema' (originally published by 'The Korea Herald'). Retrieved 22 May 2009. 'Love HK Film.com' described 'Boy Goes to Heaven' as a "cute, fairly entertaining, but wholly inconsequential fantasy melodrama", and was critical of the director for a lack of attention to detail, in particular a reference to the age gap between the characters despite the film's 1980s setting."[http://www.lovehkfilm.com/panasia/boy_who_went_to_heaven.htm A Boy Who Went to Heaven]". 'Love HK Film.com'. Retrieved 22 May 2009.
References
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