Plots(1)
So-jung, a bright, young freelance photographer, is about to leave for America with her caring boyfriend Ji-seok. A crisis emerges when she learns that she is gradually losing her eyesight due to a pigmentary degeneration of the retina. Although she knows that she cannot face this catastrophe by herself, she leaves Ji-seok. After a long time of anguish, she decides to give up her photography and devote herself to learning to fly a light aircraft. Why does she turn away from her family and her lover when she needs them the most? What does a true life mean to her? A Smile describes this disparity and her crisis over the incurable disease with humour, affection and sincerity. The film presents a new direction in realism for the Korean cinema and it heralds the arrival of a talented new woman director. (Independent Cinema Office)
(more)Cast
![Seong-ha Jo](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/157/901/157901484_974b79.jpg)
Seong-ha Jo
South Korea
Best movies:
Gu Family Book (2013) (series)
Always (2011)
IRIS (2009) (series)
![Won-sang Park](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/188/160188427_66ac37.jpg)
Won-sang Park
South Korea
Best movies:
Healer (2014) (series)
Innocent Steps (2005)
Queen For 7 Days (2017) (series)
![Sang-mi Choo](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/606/159606280_d8526a.jpg)
Sang-mi Choo
South Korea
Best movies:
Turning Gate (2002)
See You After School (2006)
Everybody Has Secrets (2004)
Il-gon Song
South Korea
![Kyeong Jin](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/301/160301463_d0b128.jpg)
Kyeong Jin
South Korea
Best movies:
Extraordinary Attorney Woo (2022) (series)
Gu Family Book (2013) (series)
My Little Bride (2004)
![Byung-ho Son](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/273/273798_fb0aa7.jpg)
Byung-ho Son
South Korea
Best movies:
The Bridal Mask (2012) (series)
49 Days (2011) (series)
Going by the Book (2007)
Young-soon Son
South Korea
Best movies:
Lover's Concerto (2002)
I Saw the Devil (2010)
Too Beautiful to Lie (2004)