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…
The 2012–2014 South Korea Window
183 South Korea films released in this three-year window, ranked here by audience rating. The Weight sits at position #176.
Other Titles From Next Entertainment World
The 2010s South Korea Landscape
Catalog density by release year in the 2010s. Highlighted year (yellow) is when The Weight premiered. 719 total titles in this decade from South Korea.
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 |