The Weight (2013)

5.4/10 107 min Drama

Overview

Jung is a mortician at the morgue, who has to rely heavily on medicine for his severe tuberculosis and arthritis. Despite his illness, cleaning and dressing the dead is a noble and even beautiful work. His life over there is both a reality and a fantasy while the corpses are his models and friends for his paintings, his sole living pleasure. Why this morbid hobby? Jung was adopted by a horrible woman who used him as a slave for her dress shop. The natural son of the woman is younger than Jung and has a strange desire. He wants to transform his male body into a female one. Despite the love and hate relationship Jung has with his brother and burdened with the weight of life and the difficulties he has to deal with at his job, Jung endures the pain and prepares a last gift for his brother...

Cast

Cho Jae-hyun

Jung

Park Ji-a

Dong-bae

Yoon Dong-hwan

Lee Jun-hyeok

Kim Sung-min

Ra Mi-ran

Woman from Incheon

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