The Weight
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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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Cast
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Cho Jae-hyun
Jung
Known for
Bad Guy
Moebius
Park Ji-a
Dong-bae
Known for
The Glory
Breath
Yoon Dong-hwan
Also in
The Slave Hunters
From Seoul to Varanasi
Lee Jun-hyeok
Known for
Happiness
Touch Your Heart
Kim Sung-min
Known for
Time
Wonderful Days
Ra Mi-ran
Woman from Incheon
Known for
The Heirs
The Good Bad Mother
Yoo Seung-hyeon
Yeo Bae-woo
Also in
Purpose of Reunion
Road Movie
Jeon Kyu-hwan Director · Kim Nam-gyun Cinematographer Kim Mi-young Editor
First release August 30, 2012 · Produced in South Korea · Production TreeFilm
Production
Next Entertainment World
Production
TreeFilm
Production
South Korea
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Original title
무게
Original language
Korean
Spoken on screen
Korean
Release dates
Italy · August 30, 2012
Premiere · Venice Film Festival
South Korea · November 7, 2013
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Belgium
April 10, 2013 · Theatrical
Germany
September 27, 2013 · Premiere · Hamburg Film Festival
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