Christmas in August

Is love eternal?

It's a sweltering summer, but Jung-won, a terminally ill, thirty-something photographer, is already in the winter of his life when he begins a tentative romance with a young traffic cop who doesn't know about his condition. Is their relationship doomed before it even begins?

1998

1h 37min

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Top Billed Cast

한석규
Jung-won
심은하
Da-rim
신구
Jung-won's Father
오지혜
Jung-sook
이한위
Chul-goo
전미선
Ji-won
김애라
Grandmother
민경진
Son
이용녀
Ballet Auntie
김기천
Drunk Man
Kim Do-yoon
Police Passerby
김재록
Jung-won's Friend 1

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