Petty Romance
Introduction
Petty Romance
Ze-ze-han Ro-men-su
A comic artist teams with an unlikely writer to try for lucrative adult comic prize, bringing out their respective wildest fantasies
Film Summary
UK Premiere
Dir: 
Kim Joung-hoon
Cast: 
Lee Sun-kyun, Choi Kang-hee
118 min
Korean
(English subtitles)
South Korea
2011
Comedy
15
Screening: 
Saturday 7 May 2011 (doors open 13:00)
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Film Main Info

Jeong Bae (Lee Sun-kyun) is at a career dead end. No one likes his manwha comics and one publisher even used his painstakingly hand-drawn submission as scrap paper. His friends encourage him to find a writer – his drawings are good, but his stories suck.

Da Rim (Choi Kang-hee) is a proud modern city girl, writing relationship advice columns in a magazine, but fired for over embellishing. With no new job, and the prospect of being kicked out of her brother’s flat, she answers a job ad for a comic writer.

And so the stage is set for the unlikely pairing of these two characters who constantly clash, yet somehow, they seem to hit on a winning formula when they commit their fantasies to ink.

Will the result of the relationship be strong enough to finish the work and win the top comic prize of $100,000?

Director Kim Joung-hoon uses a great technique of mixing adult manwha animation into this rom-com feature film.