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'The Naked Kitchen' (; lit. "Kitchen") is a 2009 South Korean film written and directed by Hong Ji-young. Starring Shin Min-ah, Ju Ji-hoon, and Kim Tae-woo, the film is a romantic comedy-drama about a very curious mnage trois.

Plot



Ahn Mo-rae and Han Sang-in have been friends since childhood. He didn't mind that she followed him around, calling him 'hyeong' or Big Brother (though Korean girls are supposed to call older guys 'oppa'), and their marital relationship is an odd but appealing mix of hot sex and best buddies. The day of their wedding anniversary is pretty eventful. Mo-rae (Shin Min-ah) cooks breakfast, serving it on their best china, hoping to get Sang-in (Kim Tae-woo) into the mood for love before he goes to work. Sang-in quits his high-end stockbroker job so that he can devote himself to his lifelong dream of running a fancy restaurant. While shopping for an anniversary gift for Sang-in, Mo-rae sneaks into a closed gallery, where she encounters another illicit visitora very handsome young man with whom she hides when the gallery owner turns up. Mo-rae, overcome by heat and dizziness, has a sudden sexual encounter with the stranger, who then vanishes. She confesses the incident to her husband, downplaying it both to him and to herself. Then Sang-in tells Mo-rae over dinner that he's expecting a mentor to help him plan the menu for his dream restaurant: a brilliant young French-Korean chef who will arrive that evening. Park Du-re (Ju Ji-hoon),French-Korean mentor, turns out to be Mo-rae's stranger, who now will be staying with the young couple, sleeping in the room that had belonged to Sang-in's late mother. With her husband blissfully unaware of Du-re's identity, he encourages Mo-rae to get along with him. Mo-rae is powerfully drawn to Du-re while Sang-in gets cooking lessons from him, leading the poor woman to somewhat of a crisis as she tries to decide what her heart really wants. But at the end Mo-rea eventually decides to leave them both.

Cast



*Shin Min-a Ahn Mo-rae

*Kim Tae-woo Han Sang-in

*Ju Ji-hoon Park Du-re

*Jeon Hye-jin Kim Seon-woo

*Park Sang-hun Kwon Joo-hyeok

*Jung So-yeon Kwon Ye-rim

*Kwon Hyeok-poong cooking competition sponsor

*Kim Won-joo cooking competition sponsor

*Kwon Yeong-gook cooking competition sponsor

*Kim Bo-yeong gallery curator

*Min Seong-wook bond company junior colleague

*Kim Joo-yeong parasol store student couple

*Baek Jin-hee parasol store student couple

*Bang Eun-jin cooking judge (cameo)

*Ahn Hye-kyung radio weather forecaster (cameo)

*Chae Yoon-seo bride at wedding shoot (cameo)

* Lee Hwan groom at wedding shoot (cameo)

Notes



Actors Shin Min-ah and Ju Ji-hoon previously starred together in the 2007 television series 'The Devil'.

References




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