Heartbreak Library

Here's one for the list of "librarian unthaws a cold heart" movies. A heartbroken man defaces library books to decode the cryptic goodbye left by his vanished girlfriend. The vigilant librarian, herself recently dumped, catches him and gets drawn into his weird book project. Anyway, it's a living.

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Kim Jeong-kwon directed Heartbreak Library in 2008. See Kim Jeong-kwon's full filmography, where to start with Kim Jeong-kwon, or where to go after you've seen everything by Kim Jeong-kwon.

Heartbreak Library was released in 2008 (KO original-language production), with a runtime of 97 minutes.