Directed by:
Jae-eun JeongScreenplay:
Jae-eun JeongCinematography:
Hiroši IwanagaComposer:
Takashi NiigakiPlots(1)
Royko (Nakayama Miho), is a popular romance novelist and college lecturer of literature. She meets Chanhae, a young Korean man who is in Japan to study, on campus. They become close, but their relationship is put at risk when Royko begins to show signs of Alzheimer's. Chanhae believes he can love Royko despite the Alzheimer's, but she does not want him to witness her illness and breaks up with him. Like one of Royko's dime novels, Butterfly Sleep is a melodrama dealing with terminal illness. There, a woman tries to hold on to her dignity and the memory of her love. (Busan International Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Miho Nakayama
Japan
Best movies:
Shintaro Katsu's Zatoichi (1989)
Love Letter (1995)
I Have to Buy New Shoes (2012)
Jae-wook Kim
South Korea
Best movies:
Coffee Prince (2007) (series)
The Guest (2018) (series)
Antique (2008)
眞島秀和
Japan
Best movies:
The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker (2007)
A Stranger of Mine (2005)
Swing Girls (2004)
Masanobu Katsumura
Best movies:
Sonatine (1993)
From Me to You (2010)
Zen (2009)
Shun Sugata
Japan
Best movies:
The Last Samurai (2003)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
Vacation (2007)
Masatoshi Nagase
Japan
Best movies:
The Hidden Blade (2004)
Sweet Red Bean Paste (2015)
Mystery Train (1989)
Asami Shibuya
Japan
Best movies:
The Third Murder (2017)