If you loved Sunny, try MAL·MO·E: The Secret Mission

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. MAL·MO·E: The Secret Mission has roughly 7.0× fewer votes than Sunny — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Theysit in Comedy / Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Sunny, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What MAL·MO·E: The Secret Mission is

Here's a film that tries to do a lot with dictionaries. Set in the 1940s, an uneducated thief and a patriotic intellectual secretly join forces to create a Korean dictionary during the Japanese occupation. It probably made a lot more sense if you speak Korean.

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