Always (2011 film)


Always is a 2011 South Korean drama film directed by Song Il-gon. Starring So Ji-sub and Han Hyo-joo in the lead roles, it is about a romance between an ex-boxer who has closed his heart to the world and a telemarketer who remains spirited despite slowly going blind.
With online tickets selling out a 2,000-seat outdoor movie theater in a record seven seconds, Always was the opening film of the 2011 Busan International Film Festival.
It was released in theaters on October 20, 2011. In South Korea, the film had a total of 1,027,614 admissions nationwide.

Plot

Having closed himself away from the world, former boxer Cheol-min starts a new part-time job as a parking lot attendant. One night, he is sitting in the tiny pay booth in the parking lot and staring at the small television when a young woman, Jung-hwa, walks into the tollbooth. She offers something to Cheol-min and sits next to him. Cheol-min realizes the woman is blind and she is confusing him for the parking attendant who worked there previously. Their lives change forever from this point.

Cast

The film was officially remade in 2014 in Turkish as Sadece Sen. It has also been remade in Kannada in 2015 as Boxer and in Hindi in 2016 as Do Lafzon Ki Kahani. A Japanese remake, titled Your Eyes Tell , will be released on October 23, 2020.