Lee Chang-dong Reunites With Jeon Do-yeon For Directing Return In Netflix Pic ‘Possible Love’

Burning and Secret Sunshine director Lee Chang-dong is returning to directing after eight years. He’ll reunite with Secret Sunshine star Jeon Do-yeon on Possible Love, the working title of a new feature film for Netflix.

The film will follows the intertwined lives of two married couples leading completely opposite lives. As their worlds collide, fractures begin to appear in their daily existence.

Jeon, who won the Best Actress award at Cannes in 2007 for Secret Sunshine, will play Mi-ok, and Sul Kyung-gu (A Normal Family, Idol) is her husband, Ho-seok. The second couple is played by Zo In-sung (Moving, Escape from Mogadishu) as Sang-woo and Cho Yeo-jeong (Parasite, Hidden Face) as Ye-ji. Jeon and Sul have appeared on screen together three times: in I Wish I Had a Wife, Birthday and Kill Boksoon. Sul and Lee also worked together on Peppermint Candy and Oasis.

Oh Jung-mi, Lee’s collaborator on Burning, is his co-writer on Possible Love and Pinehouse Film is the producer along with Anonymous Content and NowFilm Co. Pinehouse also backed Burning.

Lee is known for portraying the complexities of Korean life in his films. He won the Special Director’s Prize at Venice for Oasis, and Poetry was named Best Screenplay at Cannes. Burning also competed at Cannes and won the International Critics’ Prize in 2018, repping his last feature.