시월애

Siworae Literal: Time-transcending love English release: Il Mare

by 여지나 et al., directed by 이현승

Release: 9 September 2000
Format: Feature Film
Genres: Fantasy, Romance
Audience: YA and Up
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: Korean

In December of 1997, when Sung-hyun moves into the newly built house-on-stilts above the tidal sand, he names it Il Mare from the Italian for “the sea”—and via a letter in the mailbox, he learns that Eun-joo wants him to forward any mail that may arrive for her, since she has just moved out . . . in December of 1999.

— Michael Main

Sung-hyun! Don’t go there!

DEBUT

[ex=bare]시월애 | Time-transcending love | Siworae[/ex] (at movie theaters, South Korea, 9 September 2000).

VARIANTS

1 Korean variant

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Themes

Letters, Texts, Phone Calls, Talking, and Other Direct Communications through Time

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

From Il Mare’s mailbox, Starting in December 1999 ⋙ to Il Mare’s mailbox, two years later. Multiple trips. Note: from Eun-joo to Sung-hyun.
From Il Mare’s mailbox, Starting in December 1997 ⋙ to Il Mare’s mailbox, two years earlier. Multiple trips. Note: from Sung-hyun to Eun-joo.

INDEXER NOTES (SPOILERS!)

Credits—are from <a href='https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FIl_Mare'>Wikipedia</a>, which includes both Kim Mi-yeong (listed at <a href='https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hancinema.net%2Fkorean_movie_Il_Mare.php'>Han Cinema</a> but not at the <a href='https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0282599%2Ffullcredits%3Fref_%3Dttrel_ql_1'>IMDb</a>) and Won Tae-yeon (listed at IMDb but not Han Cinema).