Closer to heaven

Love blossoms in unexpected places, it seems. A funeral director meets a man with Lou Gehrig's disease. It achieves a quiet intimacy, somehow.

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Park Jin-pyo directed Closer to heaven in 2009. See Park Jin-pyo's full filmography, where to start with Park Jin-pyo, or where to go after you've seen everything by Park Jin-pyo.

Closer to heaven was released in 2009 (KO original-language production), with a runtime of 121 minutes.