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Title: 착하지 않은 여자들 / Unkind Women
Chinese Title: 不善良的女人们
Also Known as: Unkind Ladies / Bad Women
Genre: Family, Romance, Comedy
Episodes: 24
Broadcast network: KBS2
Broadcast period: 2015-Feb-25 to 2015-May-14
Air time: Wednesday & Thursday 22:00
Synopsis
This drama features the women of three generations and people around them.
Ma Ri (Lee Ha Na) grows up as a good teacher of this generation where there is no true mentor. Hyun Sook (Chae Shi Ra), who has been a troublemaker, realizes the love and support of her family. Kang Soon Ok (Kim Hye Ja) regards herself as unlucky, but later on realizes how happy she has been.
How can you hold up when your life gets tough? You will figure it out by holding up day by day, just like these women in the drama. (Source)
Cast
Main Cast
Kim Hye Ja as Kang Soon Ok
Chae Shi Ra as Kim Hyun Sook
–Ha Seung Ri as Kim Hyun Sook (young)
Lee Ha Na as Jung Ma Ri
Do Ji Won as Kim Hyun Jung
People Around Soon Ok
Lee Soon Jae as Kim Chul Hee (Soon Ok’s husband)
Jang Mi Hee as Jang Mo Ran
– Ha Ji Eun as Jang Mo Ran (young)
Lee Mi Do as Park Eun Sil
People Around Hyun Sook
Park Hyuk Kwon as Jung Goo Min (Hyun Sook’s husband)
–Yoon Jong Hoon as Jung Goo Min (young)
Seo Yi Sook as Na Hyun Ae
Lee Seung Hyung as Na Hyun Ae’s younger brother
Kim Hye Eun as Ahn Jong Mee
People Around Ma Ri
Song Jae Rim as Lee Roo Oh
Kim Ji Suk as Lee Doo Jin (Roo Oh’s older brother)
People Around Hyun Jung
Son Chang Min as Lee Moon Hak
Others
Choi Jung Woo as Han Choong Gil
Jung Ji Soon as Sun Dong Tae
Chae Sang Woo as Gook Young Soo
Ji Il Soo as Jae Kyung
Cameo
Jang Kwang as fortune teller
Lee Sang Yoon as actor
Park Chil Yong as gemologist
Choi Jong Hoon as man having affair
Choi Ha Na as woman having affair
Joo Jong Hyuk as college student
Yeo Hoe Hyun
Production Credits
Production Company: IOK Media
Chief Producer: Jung Hae Ryong
Producer: Yoon Jae Hyuk, Kim Dong Hwi
Director: Yoo Hyun Ki, Han Sang Woo
Screenwriter: Kim In Young
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a psychoanalysis of an oedipal relationship between kim hye-ja’s nameless Mother and won bin’s mentally-handicapped do-joon, mother is a movie that i unfortunately could not love as much as i wanted to. perhaps its because i’m not a fan of kim hye-ja’s over the top acting (the same reason why i stopped watching the light in your eyes), that a character film built around her was bound to bore and frustrate me with her shaky voice and breathing. the plot was actually predictable with plenty of tropes.
bong’s films are sometimes about post-traumatic castrated males, with a good dose of social ire and commentary. but not really in mother. mother centers around the twisted and overbearing relationship between mother and child, that found little resonance or empathy in me. it offered no critique of people’s attitudes to the intellectually disabled (a rather kind depiction actually), slight critique of the welfare support for single mothers, and more criticism for the bumbling detectives and forensics for clumsily resolving the murder (a trope that is tired and more effective in memories of murder).
unfortunately won bin’s acting could not come to the fore, jin goo was one-dimensionally constructed, the police incompetent (but we already knew that, right), the schoolgirls nubile (waiting for a bong film that undoes this), so all we’re left with at the heart is kim hye-ja’s unloveable character with an over the top acting style that i don’t appreciate. chun woo-hee was the standout for me. – 3/10
