Kim Young-ok in "Take Care of My Mom", First Lead Role in 65 Years of Acting

Kim Young-ok, the oldest active female actor in Korea, will star in a movie.

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Kim Young-ok's first leading role in her 65-year acting career, "Take Care of My Mom" was confirmed to be released in April.

"Take Care of My Mom" is a human family drama depicting the choice of an 85-year-old Jeong Mal-im stuck between a son pretending to be a good son and a nursing care worker pretending to be family. Under the sub-title of 'strangers-like family, family-like strangers', the film discusses whether we live together because we are a family, or if we live together and are a family. It talks about the birth of a new family through the inner circumstances of many families.

Along with actors Kim Young-ok, Kim Young-min and Park Sung-yeon perform realistically, while Lee Jung-eun adds strength with a special appearance.

In particular, Park Kyung-mok's feature film debut, which received great attention from overseas film festivals such as the Vancouver International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, and Sitges Film Festival through short films, is drawing attention. It makes us expect delicate and humane directing skills. Filming director Lee Hyung-deok also shows off his skills.

"Take Care of My Mom" conveys realistic emotions that can be more sympathetic in traditional Korean parent-child relationships based on episodes that are not unfamiliar. The provocative and unconventional suggestion of the tradition of warm gaze on alternative families and the duty of support shows a new look at the form of the family. In the aging era, it is explained that it allows us to look back on the relationship between parents and children intertwined with support issues and at the same time consider the true meaning of the family in our society.

The main poster, which was released with the confirmation of its release, raises expectations for a movie that will show us living with the scent of people just by actor Kim Young-ok's expression of various emotions in a bright smile in spring. The sentence 'more like a family than I am' harmonizes with the title, leaving a deep impression.