My Dear Desperado

My Dear Desperado
South Korean film poster
Korean name
Hangul
내 깡패 같은 애인
Hanja
내 깡 같은
Revised RomanizationNae Kkangpae Kateun Aein
McCune–ReischauerNae Kkangp‘ae Kat‘ŭn Aein
Directed byKim Kwang-sik
Written byKim Kwang-sik
Produced byYoon Je-kyoon
StarringPark Joong-hoon
Jung Yu-mi
CinematographyGo Nak-sun
Edited byLee Jin
Music byMok Young-jin
Distributed byLotte Entertainment
Release date
  • May 20, 2010 (2010-05-20)
Running time
100 minutes
CountrySouth Korea
LanguageKorean
BudgetUS$750,000
Box officeUS$4,214,668[1]

My Dear Desperado (Korean내 깡패 같은 애인; RRNae Kkangpae Kateun Aein; lit. My Gangster Lover) is a 2010 South Korean romantic comedy film written and directed by Kim Kwang-sik, and starring Park Joong-hoon and Jung Yu-mi as two people who become semi-basement one-room neighbors: brave yet jobless Se-jin and Dong-chul, the neighborhood gangster who always gets beaten up.[2][3] The film received 688,832 admissions nationwide.[4]

This film was remade in Hindi titled Jayantabhai Ki Luv Story in 2013. It was officially remade in Tamil by Nalan Kumarasamy titled Kadhalum Kadandhu Pogum (2016) for which 40 lakh (US$48,000) or 71,587,640.57 was paid as copyrights.[5]

  1. ^ "My Gangster Girlfriend". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
  2. ^ Lee, Ji-hye (29 April 2010). "My Dear Desperado is not a romantic comedy nor comedy". 10Asia. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
  3. ^ "My Dear Desperado (2010)". The Chosun Ilbo. 21 May 2010. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
  4. ^ "Theatrical Releases in 2010: Box-Office Admission Results". Koreanfilm.org. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
  5. ^ "Dark comedy to romance - Bangalore Mirror -". Bangalore Mirror. Retrieved 2016-03-12.