Many tears will flow in the aptly titled Sad Movie! Both at home and abroad, Korean cinema and television have become widely renowned for their compelling, tenderhearted romantic melodramas, and in late 2005, delighted moviegoers got to see the latest twist on that genre in their local cineplexes.

Contemporary K-Drama gets anthologized in Sad Movie, a star studded cinematic omnibus of tales that revolves around fragile matters of the heart, touching human relationships, and the way in which several ordinary couples try to cope with the rigors of love, life, and bittersweet romance! Stepping into the director's chair for this multi-storied motion picture is writer/director Kwon Jong Gwan, fresh off of his 2004 directorial debut film S Diary.

This time around, however, Kwon helms a picutre featuring a huge, all-star cast including such impressive actors as Jung Woo Sung (from Mutt Boy and A Moment to Remember), Im Su Jeong (from A Tale Of Two Sisters and Sorry, I Love You), Cha Tae Hyeon (from My Sassy Girl and Lover's Concerto), Yeom Jeong Ah (from The Big Swindle and Tell Me Something), Shin Min Ah (from A Bittersweet Life and Volcano High), Son Tae Yeong (from Ghost House) and Lee Ki Woo (from The Classic and Tale of the Cinema).

With such an amazingly diverse and rarified acting pedigree such as that, it seems obvious that Kwon Jong Gwan's Sad Movie has practically cornered the market on talent in weaving this poignant anthology about life, loss, and above all, love!

Rather than focus on one driving plotline, the film is a collection of four stories that all intersect at some point, although they remain basically unrelated. First off, there's Jin-Woo (Jung Woo-Sung of A Moment to Remember), a handsome, noble, but lunkheaded firefighter dating a sign language interpreter named Su-Jung (Im Su-Jung of A Tale of Two Sisters). It looks like the two are ready to take the next big step in their relationship, but Jin-Woo's unwillingness to give up his dangerous profession and his occasional obliviousness to Su-Jung's needs keeps derailing any plans for wedding bells between the two.

Su-Jung lives with her sister, the cheerful Su-Eun (Shin Min-Ah of A Bittersweet Life). Although she provides the occasional moral support for her sister and "brother-in-law," Su-Eun has problems of her own. While working at a theme park as a Raggedy Ann-like Snow White, she falls in love with a portrait painter named Sang-Gyu (Lee Ki-Woo). The only problem is that Su-Eun is a deaf mute with a scar on the side of her cheek, facts which prevents her from approaching Sang-Gyu without wearing her oversized mask and costume. With the help of her ridiculously cute co-workers, the Seven Dwarves, Su-Eun hopes to overcome her shyness and connect with the handsome artist.

Then there's Ju-Yung (Yeom Jung-Ah), a working mother whose commitment to her job causes a rift between her and her lonely son Hui-Chan (Yeo Jin-Goo). Things begin to change when Ju-Yung is caught in a car accident and sent to the hospital. While his mother is laid up in a hospital bed, Hui-Chan stumbles upon his mother's diaries and begins to learn the truth about his conception, birth, and early childhood. Soon, he begins to bond with his mother, just as she discovers that she's suffering from cancer.