Query: South Korean coming-of-age or coming-of-age comedy films
Domain: films
Relevant documents:
Bleak Night
Punch (2011 film)
Fashion King (film)
Yongsoon
One Way Trip (film)
Set Me Free (2014 film)
Mutt Boy
Friend (2001 film)
House of Hummingbird
Take Care of My Cat
Night Flight (2014 film)
Plum Blossom (film)
Twenty (film)
Snowball (2020 film)
The Harmonium in My Memory
Let Me Out (film)
Flying Boys
Evidence from documents: Bleak Night: '''''Bleak Night''''' (; lit. "The Lookout") is a 2010 South Korean coming-of-age drama film
Punch (2011 film): '''Punch''''' () is a 2011 South Korean coming-of-age film
Fashion King (film): ''''Fashion King''''' () is a 2014 South Korean film that comically depicts the coming of age of a high school student as he matures into adulthood and discovers a passion for fashion design.
Yongsoon: '''''Yongsoon''''' is a 2016 South Korean drama film directed by Shin Joon.
Story of a teenage girl who discovers young love when she falls for her school's athletics team coach.
One Way Trip (film): South Korean: '''''One Way Trip''''' () is a South Korean film.
coming-of-age: It's a story of four best friends who go on a trip before one of them leaves for military service; they get involved in an incident that will change their lives forever.
Set Me Free (2014 film): '''''Set Me Free''''' () is a 2014 South Korean autobiographical coming-of-age film directed by Kim Tae-yong.
Mutt Boy: '''''Mutt Boy''''' (; lit. "Shit dog") is a 2003 South Korean film starring Jung Woo-sung, Kim Kap-soo and Uhm Ji-won. A developmentally-disabled boy grows up in a rural town, and eventually attracts a small gang of followers due to his fighting skills. However, he keeps getting into trouble against the law, and getting picked up by his father who works as a police officer.
Chul-min's family consists of himself, his police detective father, his sick mother, and a dog. Chul-min calls the dog "Mutt" or "Stray Dog," but his father calls Chul-min "Mutt" too. The dog is Chul-min's best friend. He doesn't cry when his mom dies, but he does get furious when his dog is eaten by the older boys in his soccer club. He takes his revenge, but his father's patrol car awaits him. Although he now must live on his own, Chul-min wins renown as the one who beat up 21 people all by himself. Many of the town's thugs start to hang around Chul-min, fascinated by him, and he becomes a leader of small-time gangsters. One day his father takes in a young orphan named Jung-ae who was a thief. Eventually Chul-min and Jung-ae develop feelings for each other and Chul-min confronts the gang who killed his beloved dog.
Friend (2001 film): As children, they play together and sell sexually explicit pictures. In high school, they become smitten with the lead singer of a girl band their age.
House of Hummingbird: South Korean: '''House of Hummingbird''''' () is a 2018 South Korean drama film written and directed by Kim Bora.
coming-of-age: Kim Bora, who also wrote the script as well as directing draws from her own childhood as inspiration for this coming of age film, focusing on a pivotal moment in her life, the collapse of the Seongsu bridge in 1994.
Take Care of My Cat: '''''Take Care of My Cat''''' () is a 2001 South Korean coming of age film, the feature debut of director Jeong Jae-eun. It chronicles the lives of a group of friends — five young women — a year after they graduate from high school, showing the heartbreaking changes and inspiring difficulties they face in both their friendships and the working world in the context of globalization.
Night Flight (2014 film): South Korean: '''''Night Flight''''' () is a 2014 South Korean drama film
coming-of-age: Three teenage boys, Shin Yong-joo, Han Ki-woong and Ko Ki-taek, were best friends in middle school. While Yong-joo and Ki-taek still remain close, Ki-woong becomes a ''jjang'' (Korean slang term meaning "best"), one of the strongest fighters in the school, and begins to hang out with Sung-jin's gang (Sung-jin's parents are powerful figures, making him a bigwig among his schoolmates), meaning he draws away from the other two, particularly when Yong-joo becomes concerned when he finds out that Sung-jin's gang is mercilessly bullying Ki-taek, an eccentric manhwa fan.
Plum Blossom (film): '''''Plum Blossom''''' (; lit. "Youth") is a 2000 South Korean coming-of-age film written and directed by Kwak Ji-kyoon.
Twenty (film): a 2015 South Korean coming-of-age film
Snowball (2020 film): '''''Snowball''''' () is a 2020 South Korean youth drama film, directed by Lee Woo-jeong and starring Bang Min-ah, Shim Dal-gi and Han Sung-min. The film adapted from ''The Best Life'' by Lim Sol-ah, tells the story of three high school best friends who run away to find answers to their perceived troubles.
The Harmonium in My Memory: South Korean coming-of-age or coming-of-age comedy films: '''''The Harmonium in My Memory''''' () is a 1999 South Korean film based on the best-selling Korean semi-autobiographical novel ''Female Student'' by Ha Keum-chan.
coming-of-age: One of his older students, 17-year-old Yun Hong-yeon, develops a crush on him, though her efforts to catch his attention seem to go unnoticed.
Let Me Out (film): '''''Let Me Out''''' () is a 2013 South Korean film. Part coming-of-age, part comedy,
Flying Boys: '''''Flying Boys''''' is a 2004 South Korean film, written and directed by Byun Young-joo, and starring Yoon Kye-sang and Kim Min-jung. The film had 114,478 admissions in South Korea.
Min-jae is a high school senior who lives with his father, an airline pilot, and is struggling with his studies. For some time he has had a crush on Su-jin, a girl his own age who lives in the same apartment building, but has lacked the courage to approach her. Su-jin, meanwhile, is frustrated with her family life and keen to get away. She plans to become a veterinarian, even though she is no good with animals.