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Women in Comedy, Loud and Fabulous

How to Top My Wife

KANG Woo-suk

Korea1994100min Color

Synopsis

After a long term office relationship, Bong-su and So-young decide to tie the knot. However, marriage life is not as fulfilling as they expected. Not wanting a divorce, nor to continue the relationship, Bong-su decides to hire a contract killer to take out his wife.

Program Note

Romantic comedy lms was the vanguard of Korean lm renaissance in 1990s and a great actor, Choi Jinsil was in the center of it. We remember her with tears, however, she was greater than anybody to make us laugh. I introduce How to Top
My Wife that we can see the quintenssence of her comic acting. (Jay SOHN)

Diretor

KANG Woo-suk

Born in 1960. Debuting with Sweet Brides in 1988, he directed Happiness Does Not Come In Grades (1989), Who Saw The Dragon's Toenail? (1991), Two Cops series, and Public Enemy series. Especially, Silmido gathered more than 10 million audiences in Korea for the first time. He steadily has worked as a producer and a director, and he won Best Director at the Blue Dragon Awards for Moss. His latest film is The Map Against the World (2016).