South Korea Synopsis
무게
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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The 2012–2014 South Korea Window
In the crowded 2012-2014 South Korea release window, The Weight sits at #176 of 183. The leaderboard below contextualises its neighbours.
The 2010s South Korea Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2010s in South Korea, 719 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when The Weight premiered alongside 56 others.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 56 other South Korea films in 2013.
The 546th South Korea title from South Korea we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1955).
Our South Korea catalog contains 1,397 titles in total (931 films).
Audience Engagement
15 audience reviews — more than 29% of South Korea films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 28th percentile among South Korea films.
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #1,293 of 1,397 South Korea films indexed here (7th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is -1.4 points below the South Korea average of 6.9/10.
Among South Korea Drama productions specifically: #821 of 868 (top 95%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | South Korea |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Korean |
| Production Companies | Next Entertainment World, TreeFilm |
| Runtime | 1h 47m |
| Release Date | April 10, 2013 |
| IMDb | tt2384688 |