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Mai Ratima is a sud coréen film of genre Drama directed by Yu Ji-tae with Bae Soo-bin

Mai Ratima (2012)

마이 라띠마

Mai Ratima
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Length 2h6
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Genres Drama,    Romance
Rating63% 3.1911253.1911253.1911253.1911253.191125

Mai Ratima (Hangul: 마이 라띠마; RR: Ma-i Rattima) is a 2013 South Korean film that portrays the unlikely love affair of a Korean man in his 30s living on the bottom rung of society and a mail-order bride from Thailand in her 20s.

It is actor-director Yoo Ji-tae's first feature film. Yoo emphasizes the discrimination against the ever-increasing number of Southeast Asian women who come to Korea for prearranged marriages, saying he wanted to "portray seemingly insurmountable obstacles facing people who desire to make a difference and beat the odds," and delve into "the pain, desire and deficiency that love bears."

The film won the Jury Prize ("Lotus du Jury") at the 2013 Deauville Asian Film Festival. It was praised by Deauville's jury president, Jérôme Clément for its sensitive handling and Yoo's keen insight as director. Clément said, "It's astonishing that this is his first feature film. This award is presented with the hopes that this film will have a chance to be seen widely by film fans worldwide."

Mai Ratima was released in theaters on June 6, 2013.

Synopsis

To support her sister and Alzheimer's-afflicted mother back in Thailand, Mai Ratima (Park Ji-soo) enters into an arranged marriage with mentally challenged Sang-pil (Lee Jun-hyuk). Stuck in the drab seaside town of Pohang, she endures the daily harangues of her mother-in-law and sexual harassment by her brother-in-law Sang-rim (Kim Kyung).

Actors

Bae Soo-bin

(Soo-young)Go Se-won

(Joon)So Yoo-jin

(Young-jin)Park Soo-jin

(Ma Ratima)Park Ji-soo

(Mai Ratima)Oh Dal-soo
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