When firefighter Kim Ja-hong (Cha Tae-hyun, still best-known for My Sassy Girl) dies in the line of duty, he’s greeted by a trio of guardians - Deok-choon (Kim Hyang-gi, Thread of Lies), Hewonmak ( Ju Ji-hoon, Asura) and their reaper boss Gang-lim (Ha) - who are also his escorts through the afterlife. Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner Welcome Second Child That, Kim’s commercial track record and the film’s sentimental material could also help garner attention in urban markets overseas as clever counter-programming. If audible sniffles are anything to go by, continued success in Korea will be followed swiftly by similar reactions regionally, particularly given the strong, recognizable cast led by The Handmaiden star Ha Jung-woo. Based on the webcomic Singwa Hamgge, literally “With God,” Along With the Gods: The Two Worlds had a massive opening weekend at the end of the year at home in South Korea - thoroughly trouncing such competition as Yang Woo-suk’s Steel Rain and Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Go, the 3D China-Korea co-production about a baseball-playing gorilla, Kim steers away from more overtly comedic moralizing for an old-fashioned crowd-pleaser about family and sacrifice. Following the hit musical romance 200 Pounds Beauty and, more recently, Mr.
Taking a page from Buddhist dogma involving karma, judgment and rebirth and spinning an achingly sincere afterlife adventure from it, director Kim Yong-hwa returns from a four-year hiatus with a three-hanky weepy that’s not nearly as grating as it should be.
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