I couldn't lie how I love this movie so much. I found myself enjoy watching it. There is credits to the director and two main casts who steal all the show. The relationship between soon-yi and chul-so was built really well from the beginning. How soon-yi treats him like a dog to become more than that. For me, the chemistry between Bo-yeong and joong-ki is the strongest aspect that makes this movie more alive and successful. Especially for joong-ki, he acts really convincing as an innocent wolf-boy.
Unfortunately, there is a big mistake for the make up and visual effects especially when chul-so turns into a werewolf. The visual effects look horrible and cheap, the studio should hire a professional one to make the werewolf looks real. I think visual effects in korean movie has improved nowadays and definitely not as poor as this movie has.
Beside weak visual effects, A Werewolf Boy is still a funny, beautiful and touching drama. It also very sweet and brings tears even to men. It's not the best ever korean movie for sure but it's still enjoyable to see and I personal love this movie!
Keywords: orphanwerewolfsingle parentferal child
Plot summary
An offer to buy her property brings elderly Kim Sun-yi back to the country cottage she briefly lived in during eventful times in her youth. With her granddaughter by her side, Sun-yi recalls meeting Cheol-su, not only a feral orphan from Korean war days but a mute boy genetically spliced with wolf DNA by a rogue scientist, now deceased. She effectively tames the unsocialized lad through dog obedience training, and he soon becomes more than a loyal companion, protecting her from the rude advances of her late father's business partner's ne'er-do-well, spoiled, self-centered son, Ji-tae, who fully expects Sun-yi to marry him someday. He would claim her as his own sooner than that if not for Cheol-su, who transforms into an unbeatable werewolf anytime someone threatens a member of his pack, leading Ji-tae to work towards a permanent solution to this problem.
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Compelling korean love story
A very different werewolf story...
"A Werewolf Boy" (aka "Neuk-dae-so-nyeon") turned out to be a much more entertaining movie than I had hoped for. I must admit that I was genuinely interested in this movie, given the synopsis and also because it is a South Korean movie - and they usually put out some really great movies.
I will say that "A Werewolf Boy" turned out to be more than just entertaining, it was also a beautiful story and visually a beautiful movie. Visually, I don't mean CGI beautiful, but a really nicely shot movie.
The story is about an elderly woman who receives a phone call and is brought back to her memories of a strange boy that she had come to know 47 years earlier. The family had just moved to a remote rural house, where they found a mute and somewhat feral-looking boy was living by himself. The family takes him in and starts to help him become more civilized.
I will not go into further details about the movie, at the risk of giving away spoilers. But I will say that this is definitely a movie that has to be seen to be wholly experienced.
Director Sung-Hee Jo really managed to put together a memorable and touching movie that is wholly entertaining from the start and right up to the end. And you might actually want to have some tissue at hand towards the end of the movie - just a heads up.
The acting in the movie was really good, and people were doing fantastic jobs with their given roles and characters. And the characters portrayed in the movie were vivid, well-detailed and brought to life so nicely on the screen, and they really complimented the movie quite nicely.
"A Werewolf Boy" is a great addition to the South Korean cinema vault, because it is a movie unlike most others. You don't want to miss out on this experience.
I am rating "A Werewolf Boy" a solid seven out of ten stars.
Moving fantasy love story that makes sense
The story is deceptively simple fantasy romance. There is a logic and nice explanation to why he is a werewolf that makes it watchable and touching. Not to be compared to Hollywood Twilight or other fantasy movies. It's in a different league altogether. Shows you don't need too many effects or violence to make a movie like this if the story is good.
Worth a watch.