My Love, Don't Cross That River
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Kang Kye-yeol
| My Love, Don't Cross That River | |
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 Theatrical poster | |
| Directed by | Jin Mo-young |
| Produced by | Han Gyeong-su |
| Starring | Jo Byeong-man Kang Kye-yeol |
| Cinematography | Jin Mo-young |
| Edited by | Hyun Jin-sik |
| Music by | Jeong Min-woo |
Production company | Argus Film |
| Distributed by | CGV Art House Daemyung Culture Factory |
Release dates |
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Running time | 85 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean |
| Budget | US$110,000[1] |
| Box office | US$34.3 million[2] |
My Love, Don't Cross That River (Korean: 님아, 그 강을 건너지 마오) is a 2013 South Korean documentary film that follows elderly married couple Jo Byeong-man and Kang Kye-yeol until the last moments of their 76-year marriage.[3] Documentary filmmaker Jin Mo-young filmed Jo and Kang in the couple's mountain village in Hoengseong County, Gangwon Province for 15 months.[4]
My Love, Don't Cross That River premiered at the 2013 DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award.[5] It was released in theaters on 27 November 2014 and through word of mouth became the most commercially successful Korean documentary/independent film of all time.[6][7]
Married couple, 98-year-old Jo Byeong-man and 89-year-old Kang Kye-yeol, were first featured onscreen in a five-episode segment titled Gray-haired Lovers on a KBS television documentary program that aired in 2011.[8] After documentary filmmaker Jin Mo-young saw Jo and Kang on TV, he rushed to the couple's mountain village in Hoengseong County, Gangwon Province and asked them if he could make their story into a possible film. After obtaining their permission in September 2012, Jin followed the couple for 15 months and documented their everyday life.[5][9]