You Call It Passion (Korean: 열정 같은 소리 하고 있네) is a South Korean comedy film based on the novel of the same name written by Lee Hye-rin. It is about a new graduate who struggles to survive in the war of entertainment news.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9]
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| Hangul | 열정 같은 소리 하고 있네 |
| Literal meaning | Talking About Things Like Passion |
| Revised Romanization | Yeoljeong Gat-eun Sori Hago Inne |
| Directed by | Jeong Gi-hun |
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| Based on | You Call It Passion by Lee Hye-rin |
| Produced by | Jung Du-hwan |
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Production company | Banzakbanzak Film |
| Distributed by | NEW |
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Running time | 106 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean |
| Box office | US$3.9 million[1][2] |
Plot edit
Do Ra-hee (Park Bo-young) enters Dongmyung, a newspaper company, as an intern in the entertainment section. She soon discovers the dirty and hidden aspects of the journalism industry and learns the passion and enthusiasm of the press. She has to make non-existing news by corroborating stories. Her first assignment as an official journalist is to do a write up of a sexual assault scandal involving an upcoming young actor, Woo Ji-han (Yoon Kyun-sang), of a film studio JS. From her investigation of the new evidence of the scandal given to her for the write up, she found the evidence to be fabricated. So she told her boss, Ha Jae-kwan (Jung Jae-young) she is not going to do the write up. Her boss did the write up and post the scandalous article on their website. Later, from Seon-woo's (Bae Sung-woo) her ex-mentor suggestion she do a write up exposing the fabricated evidence used against the actor. The company refuses to use the write up. So, Ra-hee's colleagues assisted by posting the write up in the internet using public computers. This results in the arrest and prosecution of the film studio manager Jang (Jin Kyung) for corruption. The actor thanked her for clearing his name of the scandal. The movie ends with Ra-hee rushing out of the airport terminal where she send off her boyfriend Seo-jin (Ryu Deok-hwan) after receiving a tip off of a potential entertainment scoop.
Cast edit
- Jung Jae-young as Ha Jae-kwan
- Park Bo-young as Do Ra-hee
- Bae Sung-woo as Seon-woo
- Ryu Hyun-kyung as Chae-eun
- Jin Kyung as Jang, film studio manager
- Ryu Deok-hwan as Seo-jin
- Yoon Kyun-sang as Woo Ji-han
- Lee Kyu-hyung as Young-hwa
- Oh Dal-su as General manager Ko (cameo)
- Lee Byung-joon as Chairman (cameo)
- Jang Hee-soo as Ra-hee's mother (cameo)
- Lee Young-jin as Jae-kwan's sister-in-law (cameo)
- Kim Sung-oh as Section chief Ma (cameo)
- Hyun Jyu-ni as Reporter Hyun (cameo)
- Yoon Joo as Leisure control person (cameo)
- Ha Ji-young as Supporting
References edit
- ^ "You Call It Passion". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
- ^ "YOU CALL IT PASSION (2015)". Korean Film Biz Zone. Korean Film Council. Retrieved June 16, 2021.
- ^ Kim, June (4 February 2015). "PARK Bo-young to Play Journalist in New Comedy". Korean Film Biz Zone. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
- ^ Baek, Byung-yeul (18 November 2015). "Park sheds baby-face image in You Call It Passion". The Korea Times. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
- ^ Na, Won-jeong (3 December 2015). "Actor shows hard work pays off". Korea JoongAng Daily. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
- ^ "You Call It Passion promises plenty of laughs". The Korea Times. 13 November 2015. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
- ^ Jin, Eun-soo (20 November 2015). "Review: New film misses the mark on 'passion pay'". Korea JoongAng Daily. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
- ^ Won, Ho-jung (22 November 2015). "Herald Review: Passion loses its way". The Korea Herald. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
- ^ "Power of Passion writ large in new movie". The Korea Times. 27 November 2015. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
