Hill of Freedom

Sep 4, 2014

1h 6m

★ 6.6

Overview

Kwon, a language school instructor, stops by her old workplace and receives a thick envelope addressed to her. A Japanese instructor named Mori had proposed to her two years ago. She turned him down. Mori had immediately gone back to Japan, but now was back in Korea looking for her. The envelope enclosed letters he had written to her during his search through Seoul. After Kwon finishes the first letter in the lobby, she grows faint coming down the staircase and drops the letters. She gathers them off the floor and sees there are no dates on the letters. She now has no way of knowing the order in which they were written.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Jeonwonsa Film

Hill of Freedom Trailers

Cast

Mori

Ryo Kase

Young-sun

Moon So-ri

Kwon

Seo Young-hwa

Sang-won

Kim Eui-sung

Innkeeper

Youn Yuh-jung

Nam-hee

Jung Eun-chae

Byeong-joo

Gi Ju-bong

Yeom-gu

Jeong Yong-jin

Gwang-hyun

Lee Min-woo

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