In order to save the boy who risked his life to be with her, Sun-yi leaves him with a promise: 'Wait for me. Feeling threatened, Chul-soo lets loose his bestial instincts and in their fear, the town villagers turn on him. But their relationship is fraught with difficulties as Ji-tae begins to cause trouble. The two eventually become close as Sun-yi opens her heart to Chul-soo, he in turn falls in love with her, the only person to ever show him affection. Chul-soo demonstrates unswerving loyalty and superhuman brawn, inspiring the envy of Ji-tae, who lusts after Sun-yi.

She teaches him how to wait patiently before a meal, how to wear clothes, speak, write, and other human behavior so that he could one day live like a normal man. Even though he behaves like a wild beast, Sun-yi's kindhearted mother adopts him and names him Chul-soo, assuming he's one of more than 60,000 children orphaned in the Korean War.Īt first, Sun-yi considers him a nuisance, but eventually has fun taming him according to a dog-training manual. His blood type is unidentifiable, and he can neither read nor speak. One day, Sun-yi discovers a feral boy of about 19 in their yard. Because of her delicate health, the beautiful yet introverted Sun-yi lives an isolated life without any friends. The Kims lived in genteel poverty at the mercy of their arrogant landlord, Ji-tae, son of the business partner of Sun-yi's late father. Sun-yi recalls how 47 years ago, when she was a 17-year-old girl in 1965, she moved from Seoul along with her widowed mother and sister Sun-ja to a remote valley to undergo a period of convalescence after suffering problems with her lungs. Returning to her homeland, she's met by granddaughter Eun-joo, and they drive back to the house in the country.

Kim Sun-yi, an elderly woman in her sixties living in the US, receives a phone call about the sale of her old family home back in South Korea. It quickly rose up the box office charts to become the most successful Korean melodrama of all time. Ī Werewolf Boy had its world premiere in the 'Contemporary World Cinema' section of the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, then screened at the 17th Busan International Film Festival before its theatrical release on October 31, 2012. This is Jo's commercial debut he previously directed the arthouse flick End of Animal and the short film Don't Step Out of the House. ĭirector Jo Sung-hee first wrote the script while studying at the Korean Academy of Film Arts and the script went through several rewrites before it was finalized in its current form. A Werewolf Boy ( Korean: 늑대소년) is a 2012 South Korean fantasy romance film in which a beautiful teenage girl ( Park Bo-young) is sent to a country house for her health, where she befriends and attempts to civilize a feral boy ( Song Joong-ki) she discovers on the grounds-but the beast inside him is constantly waiting to burst out.

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