My Mother, the Mermaid () is a 2004 South Korean romantic fantasy film directed by Park Heung-sik. It follows a young woman who quarrels with her mother but is somehow transported back in time and sees her parents' courtship. In her youth, her mother was a haenyeo, a traditional freediver.
Synopsis Na-young is an office worker who lives with her seemingly emotionally non-existent father Jin-kook, and loud cynical mother Yeon-soon. As time passes, she is becoming more and more like her mother Yeon-soon.
One day, her father suddenly disappears and she skips her international airplane flight to find him. By entering her father's hometown, she is somehow transported back in time to when her parents' relationship was just beginning. She meets her mother, now a poor young woman working hard as a haenyo to send her younger brother to school to get the education she never received. Her father is a charming man who works as a postmaster who delivers mail all over the town where her mother lived. He befriends Yeon-soon and teaches her how to read and write.
Na-young is taken in by the young Yeon-soon and, as they are now roughly the same age, the two become very close. Na-young is able to experience the trials, heartbreaks, and celebrations of Yeon-soon before she herself is suddenly transported back into the present time.
Cast Jeon Do-yeon as Na-young / young Yeon-soon Park Hae-il as young Jin-kook Go Doo-shim as Yeon-soon as Jin-kook Lee Sun-kyun as Do-hyeon
Awards and nominations Award Year Category Recipient(s) Result Baeksang Arts Awards"My Mother, the Mermaid - Awards" . Cinemasie. Retrieved 2012-12-23. 2005Best Director Park Heung-sik Best ActressJeon Do-yeon Blue Dragon Film Awards 2004Best Film My Mother, the Mermaid Best DirectorPark Heung-sik Best ActressJeon Do-yeon Best Supporting ActressGo Doo-shim Best CinematographyChoi Young-taek Busan Film Critics Awards 2004 Best Supporting Actress Go Doo-shim Chunsa Film Art Awards 2005 Best Actress Jeon Do-yeon Director's Cut Awards 2004 Best Actress Jeon Do-yeon Grand Bell Awards 2005Best Director Park Heung-sik Best ActressJeon Do-yeon Best Supporting ActressGo Doo-shim Best ScreenplayPark Heung-sik and Song Hye-jin Korean Film Awards 2004Best Screenplay Park Heung-sik and Song Hye-jin Best ActorPark Hae-il Best ActressJeon Do-yeon Best Supporting ActressGo Doo-shim Best CinematographyChoi Young-taek Best Art DirectionCho Geun-hyun Best MusicJo Seong-woo
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