Your deadbeat mom's other son just crashed your beach life. Pack your shovel.
32-year-old Siheon, a delivery worker at Eurwangni Beach, is soon to be a college student. One day, as he is congratulated by the aunties at the restaurant, a Japanese man approaches and informs him his mother is dead. 30-year-old Ryota is the son of Siheon’s mother who left young Siheon and have a new family of her own in Japan. The brothers who met for the first time and Siheon’s friend Yejin head to Siheon’s old house in Chinatown where his mother’s trinkets are buried.
Acting
Woo Ji-hyun's restrained devastation speaks volumes in silence.
Cinematography
Eurwangni Beach becomes a character of its own—hazy, lonely, eternal.
Director
Bang Sung-jun
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Incheon's Chinatown setting carries historical weight—it's Korea's only official Chinatown, built by forced laborers, making Siheon's buried past literally layered in immigrant displacement.
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