Christmas in August

A hospital cafeteria’s air conditioning seems to be on permanent strike. Jung-won, a photographer whose life is draining like silver halide in developer, meets a cheerful traffic cop who clocks every red light but never sees the ones in his heart. The film knows how the story ends; we just watch it blanch under fluorescent grief.

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Hur Jin-ho directed Christmas in August in 1998. See Hur Jin-ho's full filmography, where to start with Hur Jin-ho, or where to go after you've seen everything by Hur Jin-ho.

Christmas in August was released in 1998 (KO original-language production), with a runtime of 97 minutes.