The Way Home is an award-winning 2002 film written and directed by Lee Jeong-hyang. It tells the heart-warming story about a grandmother and her city-born grandson who comes to live with her in a rural village. The film, which reminds the younger generation of the unconditional love and care that old people selflessly give, won South Korea's equivalent of the Oscars for best picture and screenplay. The Way Home was the second-highest grossing homegrown film in South Korea in 2002. It was released on DVD, with English subtitles, in 2003 by Paramount. The story begins on a fine summers... morning, when Sang-woo and his mother board a bus to the country. It is soon clear that the unsophisticated rural passengers annoy the seven-year-old urban boy. His mother is taking him to live with his 75-year-old mute, but not deaf, grandmother while she looks for a new job after a business venture failed in Seoul. Eventually they reach their destination, a dusty bus stop in the Korean countryside near an unsophisticated village.
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| Release date: | April 5, 2002 |
| Directed by: | Lee Jeong-hyang |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 80 Minutes |
| Producer: | Whang Jae-woo, Whang Woo-hyun |
| Editor: | Kim Jae-beom, Kim Sang-beom |
| Music by: | Kim Dae-hong, Kim Yang-hee |
| Cinematography: | Yoon Hong-shik |
| Screenplay by: | Lee Jeong-hyang |