Return to Seoul
2022 1h 59m movie Film Cambodia

Return to Seoul

Retour à Séoul

Return to Seoul is a Cambodia–South Korea co-production — one of only a handful of such cross-border film titles indexed here.

Synopsis

Retour à Séoul

On an impulse to reconnect with her origins, Freddie, 25, returns to South Korea for the first time, where she was born, before being adopted and raised in France. The headstrong young woman starts looking for her biological parents in a country she knows so little about, taking her life in new and unexpected directions.

Cambodia × South Korea Co-Production

Cambodia (lead)South Korea

Other Cambodia×South Korea titles

Titles With Overlapping Themes

Films and series that share thematic tags with Return to Seoul. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.

Thematic Fingerprint

Tags on Return to Seoul, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.

Distinctive themes · rare across catalog
  • family reunion · 4
  • identity · 3
  • french woman · 2
  • international adoption · 2
  • searching for biological parents · 1
  • korean culture · 1
Recurring themes · common across catalog
  • journey · 20
  • adoption · 7
Mainstream tags · widely used across catalog
  • south korea · 97
  • seoul · 38

Reception Benchmarks

6.0
TMDB Rating
221
Audience Reviews
Well Received
Critical Tier

Ranked #15 of 19 Cambodia films indexed here (21st percentile by TMDB audience score).

Rating is -0.6 points below the Cambodia average of 6.6/10.

Among Cambodia Drama productions specifically: #9 of 12 (top 75%).

Production Details

Primary CountryCambodia
All Production CountriesBelgium, Cambodia, France, Germany, Romania, South Korea
Original LanguageFr
Spoken LanguagesEnglish, French, Korean
Production CompaniesAurora Films, Vandertastic Films, Frakas Productions, Visual Walkabout, MereCinema
Runtime1h 59m
Release DateNovember 18, 2022
IMDbtt19719836
Official Sitewww.sonyclassics.com

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