The Weight

5.5
  • Genre: Drama
  • Run time: 107 min
  • Premiere: 2013. April 10.

Jung is a mortician at the morgue, who has to rely heavily on medicine for his severe tuberculosis and arthritis. Despite his illness, cleaning and dressing the dead is a noble and even beautiful work. His life over there is both a reality and a fantasy while the corpses are his models and friends for his paintings, his sole living pleasure. Why this morbid hobby? Jung was adopted by a horrible woman who used him as a slave for her dress shop. The natural son of the woman is younger than Jung and has a strange desire. He wants to transform his male body into a female one. Despite the love and hate relationship Jung has with his brother and burdened with the weight of life and the difficulties he has to deal with at his job, Jung endures the pain and prepares a last gift for his brother...

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Art

Jang Seok-jin

Production Design

Camera

Kim Nam-gyun

Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

Choi Yeong-sim

Makeup & Hair

Directing

Jeon Kyu-hwan

Director

Editing

Writing

Art

Jang Seok-jin

Production Design

Camera

Kim Nam-gyun

Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

Choi Yeong-sim

Makeup & Hair

Directing

Jeon Kyu-hwan

Director

Editing

Writing