The Day He Arrives
2011 · Movie · 79 min · ★ 6.9 · 87% critics
A former film director arrives in Seoul to meet a close friend, but when the meeting falls through, he drifts through the city for three days. Between drinks, chance encounters, and familiar conversations, each day feels like a slightly altered echo of the last.
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Details
- Original title
- 북촌방향
- Years
- 2011
- Release date
- 2011-09-08
- Language
- Korean
- Runtime
- 79 min
- Critic score
- 87/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.9/10 (83 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you like low-key, talk-driven stories about people repeating patterns and finding small insights in everyday moments, like Right Now, Wrong Then; Not for you if you need clear answers or fast-moving plots.
Pros: thoughtful repetition; quietly funny moments; rewatchable structure | Cons: slow, meandering pace; ambiguous meaning; low on plot
Themes
- professor
- film director
- seoul, south korea
Cast & crew
Yu Jun-sang
as Sungjoon
Kim Sang-joong
as Youngho
Song Sun-mi
as Boram
Kim Bo-kyung
as Kyungjin / Yejeon
Kim Eui-sung
as Joongwon
Baek Jong-hak
as Director
Ki Joo-bong
as Producer
Bek Hyun-jin
as Composer
Ko Hyun-jung
as Movie Fan
Ahn Jae-hong
as Student
Directed by Hong Sang-soo