One Fine Spring Day

One Fine Spring Day is a South Korean feature film released by Sidus, Shochiku and Applause Films in 2001. Directed by Hur Jin-ho (of Christmas in August), the film is a portrait of a love affair - from its blossoming in spring, to its decline as the years pass.

One Fine Spring Day
One Fine Spring Day promotional movie poster
Korean name
Hangul	봄날은 간다
Revised Romanization	Bomnaleun ganda
McCune–Reischauer	Pomnalŭn kanda
Directed by	Hur Jin-ho
Written by	Ryu Jang-ha Lee Suk-yeon Shin Joon-ho Hur Jin-ho
Produced by	Nobuyoshi Otani (executive producer) Cha Seung-jae (executive producer) Kim Sun-ah (producer) Hideshi Miyajima (producer)
Starring	Yoo Ji-tae Lee Young-ae
Cinematography	Kim Hyung-koo
Edited by	Kim Hyeon
Music by	Jo Seong-woo
Distributed by	Cinema Service (South Korea), Shochiku (Japan)
Release date	September 29, 2001 (2001-09-29)
Running time	114 minutes
Countries	South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong
Language	Korean
Box office	$69,474[1]

Plot

Sound engineer Sang-woo meets female radio DJ Eun-soo as they work together on a project capturing sounds from nature. They succeed in capturing various sounds and are attracted to one another. They start a relationship, but Sang-woo's intensifying passion reminds Eun-soo of her tragic past. She knows only too well how passion can vanish like a sound, and how love always ends.^{[citation needed]}

Popular culture

The character Eun-soo, portrayed by Lee Young-ae was the first to say the phrase "Do you want to eat ramyeon?", which later grew to exemplify a pick-up line meaning, "Do you want to sleep with me?". It was followed by a scene with broken hearted Sang-woo (Yoo Ji-tae), being offered soju with his ramyeon by his father.^[2]

Cast

• Yoo Ji-tae as Sang-woo
• Lee Young-ae as Eun-soo
• Baek Seong-hee
• Park In-hwan
• Shin Shin-ae as aunt
• Baek Jong-hak
• Son Young-soon
• Lee Moon-sik as recording studio senior
• Park Seon-woo
• Gang Hwa-sun

Awards

2001 Baeksang Arts Awards^[3]

• Best Director - Hur Jin-ho

2001 Busan Film Critics Awards

• Best Film
• Best Actress - Lee Young-ae
• Best Director - Hur Jin-ho

2001 Tokyo International Film Festival

• Best Art Direction - Park Il-hyun

2001 Blue Dragon Film Awards

• Best Film

2001 Korean Association of Film Critics Awards

• Best Film
• Best Cinematography - Kim Hyung-koo