— Overview
The notes stay with the neighbours in Dilkusha, and with a director who began again after a production failed and he fell ill.
— Contents and key concepts
A musical film that fell through in 2003, and a director who began again
The notes stay with Dilkusha, a film by Kim Tae-young. They record that it opened on the 24th, and they do not give the year. In 2003, they say, he was planning and making a musical film they call Mr. Le. The money failed, the film came to nothing, and a brain hemorrhage left him with a disability.
It was neighbours who, in worse circumstances than his, had not dropped hope, who let him find his way back to a film.
Eok-sun, Kim Man-sik, Gi Hong-ju, and a goose father in the same house
Eok-sun works as a housekeeper and is also an unknown singer. Kim Man-sik, a drummer, has lived with his wife for thirty-eight years and wants to write a song for her now that she is ill; he cannot give up his work as a real-estate agent either.
Gi Hong-ju, a visually impaired theatre director, wants to give a house to a wife twenty-one years younger. A goose father lives under the same roof. The notes wind their stories together.
A dream kept for someone else, and a second job that cannot be dropped
What they share, the notes say, is a wish to make music, or art, or some finished thing, and a day job that barely keeps them alive. They will not abandon a dream meant for someone they love.
The notes stay with those lives, and do not go further. The same Korean report, at fuller length, is on CampusDown.
Sources
- The notes, a student criticism of Dilkusha, a film by Kim Tae-young: a 2003 musical film the notes call Mr. Le, a brain hemorrhage, Eok-sun, the drummer Kim Man-sik, the theatre director Gi Hong-ju, and a goose father under the same roof.
Last updated: 15 November 2026
Frequently asked questions
What happened to the director before this film?
The notes are a student criticism of Dilkusha, a film by Kim Tae-young. They say it opened on the 24th, without naming the year, and they will not invent one. Kim, once a documentary director and producer who was doing well, planned and was making, in 2003, a musical film the notes call Mr. Le. The budget collapsed, the film came to nothing, and he fell with a brain hemorrhage and was left with a disability. Looking at neighbours who, in worse circumstances, had not dropped hope, he found his way back to making a film.
Whom does the film follow?
There is Eok-sun, who earns her living as a housekeeper and is also an unknown singer. There is Kim Man-sik, a drummer, who has lived with his wife for thirty-eight years and wants to write a song for her now that she is ill, and who cannot give up his work as a real-estate agent either. There is Gi Hong-ju, a visually impaired theatre director, who wants to give a house to a wife twenty-one years younger, and a goose father who lives under the same roof. Five people, the notes say, each in a hard place, still trying to keep a dream for someone precious.
What do the notes take as the shared line?
They all want to make music, or art, or some finished thing, and they all have another job that barely keeps them going. The point, as the notes read it, is not that they chase a dream only for themselves, but that they will not abandon a dream meant for someone they love. Man-sik still wants the song and cannot leave the agency; his junior, the theatre director, and the goose father under the same roof, are wound into one another’s lives. The notes stop with those lives, and do not go on into later shop remarks about time travel or a poem.
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