Herb
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- Movie: Herb
- Revised romanization: Heobeu
- Hangul: 허브
- Director: Heo In-Moo
- Writer: Heo In-Moo, Jeong Seo-Won
- Producer: Mu-seung Park
- Cinematographer: Hong-sik Yun
- Release Date: January 11, 2007
- Runtime: 113 min
- Production Budget: US$ 3M
- Studio: KM Culture
- Distributor: Showbox/Mediaplex
- Language: Korean
- Country: South Korea
Plot
Sang-eun is a pretty 20 year old girl, that is warm hearted and possess an extraordinary gift for folding paper into various figures. She has a loving mom and friends, but she is also mentally retarded. She has the intelligence of a 7 years old. Sang-Eun learns everything slowly, but there are still a lot of things she does not know about. She is fixated with the idea that she will meet the prince of her dreams, like in the fairy tales she so often reads.
One day Sang-Eun meets a traffic officer, that she believes may be the prince of her dreams. The traffic officer is named Jong Bum and he has a strong penchant for beautiful woman. He mistakenly believes Sang-Eun to be a lawyer and approachers her. Once Jong Bum realizes that she is mentally challenged he leaves.
Sang-Eun returns home only to find her mom crying. Her mom has just returned from a hospital appointment. Sang-Eun, while she places things into boxes and wraps by year, is now worried that her mom may soon go away like her friend’s grandmother did.
Cast
- Kang Hye-Jung - Sang-eun
- Bae Chong-Ok
- Jeong Kyeong-Ho - Jong-Bom
- Choi Jong-Ryul
- Jeong In-Gi
- Jeong Jin
- Lee Mi-Young
- Lee Won-Jong
- Yeong-yu Lee
- Oh Jung-Se
- Eom Su-Jeong
- Yang Ki-Won
- Jeong Yun
- Oh Yeon-Seo
- Woo Seung-Hyeon
- Lee Mi-Do
- Lee Jung-Sung - middle aged husband
- Kim Young-Hoon - conscripted policeman
