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The Weight (2013)

1h 47m

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The Weight (2013)

Name: The Weight
Genre: Drama
Released: 2013-04-10

1h 47m

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April 10, 2013
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Plot.

Jung is a mortician at the morgue, who has to rely heavily on medicine for his severe tuberculosis and arthritis. Despite his illness, cleaning and dressing the dead is a noble and even beautiful work. His life over there is both a reality and a fantasy while the corpses are his models and friends for his paintings, his sole living pleasure. Why this morbid hobby? Jung was adopted by a horrible woman who used him as a slave for her dress shop. The natural son of the woman is younger than Jung and has a strange desire. He wants to transform his male body into a female one. Despite the love and hate relationship Jung has with his brother and burdened with the weight of life and the difficulties he has to deal with at his job, Jung endures the pain and prepares a last gift for his brother..

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Cast & Crew.

Cho Jae-hyun

Jung

Park Ji-a

Dong-bae

Yoon Dong-hwan

Lee Jun-hyeok

Kim Sung-min

Ahn Ji-hye

Actress

Yoo Seung-hyeon

Yeo Bae-woo

Hong Jang-pyo

Special Effects Supervisor

Ra Mi-ran

Woman from Incheon

Jeon Kyu-hwan

Writer / Director

Jang Seok-jin

Production Design

Darcy Paquet

Missionary

Kim Mi-young

Editor

Choi Yeong-sim

Makeup & Hair

Kim Nam-gyun

Director of Photography

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Details.

Release Date

April 10, 2013

Original Name

무게

Status

Released

Running Time

1h 47m

Genres

Drama

Last updated: 2025-05-16

Wiki.

The Weight (Korean: 무게; RR: Muge) is a 2012 South Korean film about a hunchback mortician and his transgender stepsister.

It made its world premiere in the Venice Days sidebar of the 69th Venice International Film Festival, where it won the 2012 Queer Lion, an award for the "best film with a homosexual and queer culture theme." It is the first Korean film to have won the prize. It also won a Special Award at the 2013 Fantasporto Orient Express Awards. Jeon Kyu-hwan was awarded Best Director at the 16th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, and the Silver Peacock award for best director at the International Film Festival of India. Cho Jae-hyun won Best Actor at the 2013 Fantasia Festival.

Most of director Jeon Kyu-hwan's previous films, including Berlinale-featured Varanasi and Dance Town, have dealt with the underbelly of society. The Weight is his fifth feature-length film.