Lovers Vanished

This independent melodrama, a Korean Leaving Las Vegas (1995) according to its creator, depicts the fragile bonding of two people who thought they would never love again. He is an unjustly convicted chef who voluntarily contracts HIV from another inmate's needle in order to get released from prison. Then he can find out who really murdered his wife. She was a magician's assistant, who fell miserably in love with her boss. Now she runs a remote restaurant on the windswept coast of South Korean's Jeju island. Their paths cross after he escapes from prison, visiting the young woman at the request of a fellow inmate. She gives him a job as a chef, and they begin to get closer. Despite the relaxing seaside idyll and the ray of hope shining down on the characters' stark lives, happiness is forbidden them. A nationwide police search has begun for the fugitive and the inescapable threat of death from AIDS hangs over him every moment like a shadow.

Grosses

South Korea
$348,797
Domestic ()
Summary Details
DistributorSungwon I Com
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Opening$193,228
158 theaters
Release DateApr 1, 2010
Running Time1 hr 44 min
GenresDrama Romance
In Release275 days/39 weeks
Widest Release158 theaters
DateRankWeekend %± LW TheatersChange AvgTo DateWeekend
Apr 2-47$193,228-158-$1,222$236,3701
Apr 9-1114$22,898-88.1%117-41$195$332,2852
Apr 23-2539$1,455-5-$291$348,7974