# Failan (2001)

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**Original title**: *파이란*
**Runtime**: 115 min
**Genres**: Drama, Romance
**Directed by**: Song Hae-sung
**Written by**: Kim Hae-gon, Ahn Sang-hoon, Song Hae-sung
**Starring**: Choi Min-sik, Cecilia Cheung, Son Byung-ho, Gong Hyung-jin, Kim Ji-young, Min Kyung-jin

> *Their paths cross by chance but the love lives on forever…*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

A young woman’s orphaned status leaves her stranded in a country she barely knows. With nowhere else to go she consents to a paper marriage that’s just business, until it quietly becomes something more. It’s only polite to ask what took it so long.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, tender

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