My Mother, the Mermaid

My Mother, the Mermaid
My Mother, the Mermaid

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Hangul 인어공주
Hanja
RR Ineogongju
MR Inŏkongju
Directed by Park Heung-shik
Produced by Han Hyeong-sok
Nam Dok-u
Lee Gyeong-hwan
Written by Park Heung-shik
Song Hye-jin
Starring Jeon Do-yeon
Park Hae-il
Ko Du-shim
Music by Sung-woo Jo
Cinematography Choi Yeong-taek
Distributed by CJ Entertainment
Release date(s) June 30, 2004 (2004-06-30)
Running time 110 min
Country South Korea
Language Korean
Admissions 620,000

My Mother, the Mermaid (인어공주, Ineo gongju) is a 2004 South Korean film about a young woman who quarrels with her mother but is somehow transported back in time and sees her parents' courtship. In her youth, her mother was a haenyeo, a traditional freediver.

IMDB claims the literal translation of the title is The Little Mermaid.[1] However a more exact translation of 인어공주 is understood by looking at its Hanja roots; 人漁公主. 人漁 mean 'mermaid' [2] and 公主 means '(royal) princess'[3]. So a true literal translation should be The Mermaid Princess.

Synopsis

Na-young is an office worker who lives with her seemingly emotionally non-existent father; Jin-kook, and loud cynical mother; Yeon-soon. As time passes she is becoming more and more like her mother Yeon-soon.

One day her father suddenly disappears and she skips her international airplane flight to find him. By entering her father's hometown she is somehow transported back in time to when her parents' relationship was just beginning. She meets her mother; now a poor woman working hard as a haenyeo to send her younger brother to school to get the education she never received. Her father is a charming man who delivers the mail and befriends / teaches Yeon-soon how to read and write.

Na-Young is taken in by the young Yeon-soon and, as they are now roughly the same age, the two become very close. Na-Young is able to experience the trials, heartbreaks, and celebrations of Yeon-soon before she herself is suddenly transported back into the present time.

Cast

Jeon Do-yeon as Na-young
Jeon Do-yeon as young Yeon-soon
Park Hae-il as young Jin-kook
Ko Du-shim as Yeon-soon
Kim Bong-geun as Jin-kook

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