A Werewolf Boy (
Hangul:
늑대소년; RR:
Neukdae Sonyeon; lit. "Wolf Boy") is a 2012 South Korean fantasy romance film in which a beautiful teenage girl (
Park Bo-young) is sent to a country house for her health, where she befriends and attempts to civilize a feral boy (
Song Joong-ki) she discovers on the grounds — but the beast inside him is constantly waiting to burst out.
Director
Jo Sung-hee
first wrote the script while studying at the Korean Academy of Film
Arts and the script went through several rewrites before it was
finalized in its current form. This is Jo's commercial debut; he
previously directed the arthouse flick
End of Animal and the short film
Don't Step Out of the House.
A Werewolf Boy had its world premiere in the "Contemporary World Cinema" section of the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, then screened at the Busan International Film Festival before its theatrical release on October 31, 2012.
It quickly rose up the box office charts to become the most successful Korean melodrama of all time.
Kim Suni, an elderly woman in her sixties living in the US, receives a
phone call about the sale of her old family home back in South Korea.
Returning to her homeland, she's met by granddaughter Eun-joo, and they
drive to the house in the country and stay the night. Suni recalls how
47 years ago when she was a teenage girl in 1965, she moved from
Seoul
along with her widowed mother and sister Sun-ja to a remote valley to
undergo a period of convalescence after suffering problems with her
lungs. The Kims lived in genteel poverty at the mercy of their arrogant
and foppish landlord, Ji-tae, son of the business partner of Suni's late
father. Because of her delicate health, the beautiful yet introverted
Suni lives an isolated life in the country home, without any friends her
age.
One night, Suni glimpses a shadow in the outhouse; the next day, she
discovers a feral boy of about 19 crouching in their yard. The boy's
body temperature is 46 degrees Celsius, his blood type unidentifiable,
and he can neither read nor speak. Even though he behaves like a wild
beast, Suni's kindhearted mother adopts him and names him Chul-soo,
assuming he's one of more than 60,000 children orphaned in the
Korean War.
At first Suni considers him a nuisance, but eventually has fun taming
him according to a dog-training manual. She teaches him how to wait
patiently before a meal, how to wear clothes, how to speak, how to write
and other human behavior so that he could one day live like a normal
man. Chul-soo demonstrates unswerving loyalty and superhuman brawn, thus
inspiring the envy of Ji-tae, who lusts after Suni.
As Suni attempts to "civilize" the beast, the two eventually become
very close. Suni opens her heart to Chul-soo, and he in turn falls in
love with her, the only person to ever show him affection. But their
relationship is fraught with difficulties, as Ji-tae begins to cause
trouble. Feeling threatened, Chul-soo lets loose his bestial instincts,
and in their fear the town villagers turn on him. In order to save the
life of the boy who risked his to be by her side, Suni leaves him with a
promise: "Wait for me. I’ll come back for you."
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