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A Boy Who Went to Heaven is a film of genre Drama with Yeom Jeong-a
A Boy Who Went to Heaven (2005)
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Add to a movie listBoy Goes to Heaven (Hangul: 소년, 천국에 가다; RR: Sonyeon, cheonguke gada), also known as A Boy Who Went to Heaven, is a 2005 South Korean film directed by Yoon Tae-yong, starring Yum Jung-ah and Park Hae-il.
Synopsis
Ne-mo is a thirteen-year-old boy growing up in 1980s South Korea, and is the only child of a single mother who runs a watch repair shop in their small town. Having never met his father, Ne-mo resolves to marry a single mother when he is older. Following the suicide of his mother, Ne-mo becomes acquainted with Bu-ja, who opens a comic shop in his town. Bu-ja is also a single mother with a young son of her own, and Ne-mo instantly falls in love with her. Despite their age difference he proposes to her in a movie theater, but a fire breaks out and Ne-mo is killed saving Bu-ja's son.Actors
Yeom Jeong-a
(Bu-ja)
Park Hae-il
(Ne-mo)
Jo Min-Soo
(Ne-mo's mother)
Oh Kwang-rok
(Ne-mo's father)
Lee Sung-min
(Detective)
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