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  • 2018
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 32 m
  • 2018
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 32 m

Summary Book publisher Bongwan’s (Kwon Haehyo) marriage is on the rocks after his wife (Cho Yunhee) discovers the affair he’s been having with his assistant (Kim Saebyuk). Now that relationship is ending too and Bongwan’s new assistant, the sharp and sensitive Areum (Kim Minhee), on her first day in the office, is left to navigate the fallout of...

Directed By: Hong Sang-soo

Written By: Hong Sang-soo

  • 2018
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 32 m
  • 2018
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 32 m

The Day After

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 14 Critic Reviews
72
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 5 User Ratings
7.6
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Summary Book publisher Bongwan’s (Kwon Haehyo) marriage is on the rocks after his wife (Cho Yunhee) discovers the affair he’s been having with his assistant (Kim Saebyuk). Now that relationship is ending too and Bongwan’s new assistant, the sharp and sensitive Areum (Kim Minhee), on her first day in the office, is left to navigate the fallout of...

Directed By: Hong Sang-soo

Written By: Hong Sang-soo

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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71% Positive
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91
May 24, 2017
Infidelity has long been one of Hong’s central subjects, but The Day After might just be his greatest film about the ails of mixing business with pleasure.
By Nikola Grozdanovic FULL REVIEW
90
May 10, 2018
Avowals of literary ambitions and familial devotion, stories of death and faith, and a bold dramatic structure—based on flashbacks and leaps forward in time—set the vagaries of work and love on the firm footing of destiny.
By Richard Brody FULL REVIEW
88
May 8, 2018
As with most Hong Sang-soo films, it engages in intellectual gamesmanship while courting emotional pathos.
By Chuck Bowen FULL REVIEW
70
May 24, 2017
Even lesser Hong has its lackadaisical pleasures, and The Day After has its share of wry musings and twitchy banter between characters to counter its visual stasis and lulling storytelling.
By Guy Lodge FULL REVIEW
67
May 25, 2017
The film is carried along on a powerful undercurrent of regret, and it comes to feel as though Bong-wan is a prisoner in the book-lined office where he ostensibly holds all the power.
By David Ehrlich FULL REVIEW
60
May 24, 2017
The Day After is an elegant exercise. It feels like a chapter from something bigger.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW
50
May 8, 2018
A lazy shoulder shrug of a movie that never bothers to work out who its characters are, what they want, or why their ostensible problems should be of interest to anyone else.
By Mike D'Angelo FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 5 User Ratings
7.6
60% Positive
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40% Mixed
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Generally Favorable Based on 5 User Ratings
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40% Mixed
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Production Company Jeonwonsa Film
Release Date May 11, 2018
Duration 1 h 32 m
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Website http://crest-inter.co.jp/sorekara/
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Awards

Buil Film Awards
• 3 Nominations
Asian Film Awards
• 3 Nominations
Busan Film Critics Association (BCFA)
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations

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