The Asian Angel

Jul 2, 2021

2h 8m

★ 6.8

Overview

Aoki is a failing novelist, and Sol is a failing pop singer. Encountering each other in South Korea, speaking different languages, they and their families somehow end up in a truck heading off into the Korean countryside.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

THE KLOCKWORX

D.O.CINEMA

The Asian Angel Trailers

Cast

Takeshi Aoki

Sosuke Ikematsu

Choi Sol

Moon Choi

Toru Aoki

Joe Odagiri

Jung-woo

Kim Min-jae

Pomme

Kim Yae-eun

Manabu Aoki

Ryo Sato

Tae-yeon

Jang He-ryung

The Angel

Tateto Serizawa

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