South Korea Synopsis
“How do you hold on to someone you've never met?”
A lonely doctor who once occupied an unusual lakeside home begins exchanging love letters with its former resident, a frustrated architect. They must try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before it's too late.
Audience Engagement
2,507 audience reviews — more than 100% of South Korea films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 92th percentile among South Korea films.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with The Lake House. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
2 sharedAbove the Law
★ 6.1 · Hong Kong
2 sharedGodzilla vs. King Ghidorah
★ 7.0 · Japan
2 sharedDoraemon: Nobita and the Birth of Japan
★ 6.6 · Japan
2 sharedPress Play
★ 6.7 · South Korea
2 sharedRessha Sentai ToQger Returns: Super ToQ #7 of Dreams
★ 7.7 · Japan
2 sharedLupin the 3rd: The Elusiveness of the Fog
★ 7.1 · Japan
Drama + Mystery in South Korea
107 South Korea titles in our catalog blend the Drama and Mystery genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding The Lake House itself).
The 2005–2007 South Korea Window
The Lake House holds position #29 of 122 South Korea films in the 2005–2007 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 2000s South Korea Landscape
2006 was the decade’s peak output year for South Korea — 46 titles released, including The Lake House. Bars below show how the 2000s stacked up year by year (321 total).
Budget & Box Office Efficiency
At a 1h 39m runtime, production spent $404K per minute on screen and earned $1.2M per minute back.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 45 other South Korea films in 2006.
The 244th South Korea title from South Korea we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1955).
Our South Korea catalog contains 1,397 titles in total (931 films).
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on The Lake House, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- architect · 5
- love letter · 4
- architecture · 3
- passage of time · 3
- chicago · 2
- illinois · 2
- mysterious letter · 1
- first kiss · 1
- lake house · 1
- time · 8
- writing · 6
- remake · 101
- time travel · 70
- future · 43
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #636 of 1,397 South Korea films indexed here (54th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Among South Korea Drama productions specifically: #438 of 868 (top 50%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | South Korea |
|---|---|
| All Production Countries | South Korea, United States of America |
| Original Language | En |
| Production Companies | Sound for Film, Village Roadshow Pictures, Vertigo Entertainment, Warner Bros. Pictures, Sidus |
| Runtime | 1h 39m |
| Release Date | June 16, 2006 |
| IMDb | tt0410297 |
| Official Site | wwws.warnerbros.de |