Romantic Heaven () is a 2011 South Korean melodrama about fate, love, loss, and redemption.
Though the premise is sentimental, dealing with a variety of characters and their relationships in both life and the afterlife, it is very much in line with writer-director Jang Jin's previous works, combining elements of several different genres, including romance, comedy, drama, ghost and even police thriller into an eccentric, playful and imaginative film.
Plot
Three seemingly disconnected people cross paths at a hospital: Part one, "Mom," focuses on the character of Mimi, whose mother is battling cancer, and needs a bone marrow transplant if she is to have any hope of surviving. With great difficulty, doctors identify a potential donor, but then the man goes into flight after being accused of murder. Hoping to find him, Mimi becomes acquainted with the police detectives assigned to his case. Part two, "Wife," concerns a lawyer named Min-gyu who has recently lost his spouse. Amidst his grief, he is distracted by the fact that he can't find a bag that she had brought with her to the hospital, and which contained her personal diary. In the meantime, he is visited by an ex-convict who has a score to settle. Part three, "Girl," focuses on Ji-wook, a taxi driver whose grandfather is on the verge of death. One day his grandmother tells him that for all of his life, her husband has been unable to forget a young woman he met in his youth. It is in part four, "Romantic Heaven," that the various threads are brought together and ultimately resolved. As fate would have it, their counterparts are gazing down upon their loved ones from heaven, dealing with their own version of remorse and regret.
Cast
Kim Su-ro as Song Min-gyu
Kim Dong-wook as Dong Ji-wook
Kim Ji-won as Choi Mimi
Lee Soon-jae as old man (God) Shim Eun-kyung as Kim Boon as a girl Im Won-hee as Detective Kim Kim Won-hae as Detective Park Lee Han-wi as Peter, the secretary Jeon Yang-ja as grandma Kim Dong-joo as Mimi's mother Lee Moon-soo as Ha-yeon's father Kim Byung-ok as manhole man Kim Jun-bae as Jang Heo-soo Lee Yong-yi as Kim Boon as an old woman Kim Jae-gun as old man Lee Chul-min as Eung-shik Lee Na-ra as Yoon-joo Jung Gyu-soo as Ji-wook's doctor Lee Jae-yong as Mimi's doctor Kim Il-woong as Lee Kang-shik Seo Joo-ae as Park Joon-hee Lee Sang-hoon as deputy director of taxi company Kim Do-yeon as Person from heaven Kong Ho-seok as judge Yoo Sun as Yeom Kyeong-ja (cameo) Han Jae-suk as stalker (cameo) Kim Mu-yeol as Dong Chi-sung (cameo)