''I Want to Know Your Parents'' () is a 2022 South Korean drama film directed by

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and written by Gim Gyung-mi. Based on a Japanese theatrical play ''Oya no Kao ga Mitai'' by Seigo Hatasawa, the film stars Sol Kyung-gu, Sung Yoo-bin and Chun Woo-hee. The film about school violence revolves around an eighth grade student, who kills himself but not before writing the names of the students who victimized him. And when their parents are called to the school, a battle goes on regarding the will. It was released theatrically on April 27, 2022.

Cast

* Sol Kyung-gu as Kang Ho-chang, a lawyer and the father of Kang Han-gyeol, a student at a prestigious Haneum International Middle School. * Sung Yoo-bin as Kang Han-gyeol, student designated as a perpetrator of school violence. * Oh Dal-su as Do Ji-yeol * Chun Woo-hee as Song Jeong-wook, a homeroom teacher. * Ko Chang-seok as Teacher Jung * Moon So-ri as victim's mother * Kang Shin-il as Principal * Kim Hong-pa as Park Moo-taek, a former police chief. * Yoo Jae-sang as Kim Gun-woo * Jung Yoo-ahn as Do Yoon-jae * Jung Taek-hyun as Jung Yi-deun * Yoon Kyung-ho as public prosecutor

Production

Principal photography began on May 29, 2017 and ended on August 27, 2017, at Tangeum Lake in

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, North Chungcheong Province, South Korea. The film was completed in 2018 but the release was postponed indefinitely due to the #MeToo controversy at the time.

Reception

Box office

The film was released on 1007 screens on April 27, 2022. It was placed at no. 2 at the domestic box office on opening day, and the first weekend of its release. , it has a gross of US$3,091,257 along with 403,569 admissions.

Critical response

Oh Jin-Woo writing for Cine21 stated that the film looked at school violence from the perpetrator's point of view. Oh criticised the editing and felt that in spite of energetic performance of actors "due to the somewhat loose editing" "fun of the original story is halved." Oh concluded by writing, "Here, all the sets feel too new, so they don't fit the heavy movie theme, which interferes with immersion."

Home media

The film was released on streaming service Disney+ in South Korea on June 1, 2022.

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* * * * * {{Kim Ji-hoon 2022 films 2022 drama films 2020s Korean-language films 2020s South Korean films South Korean courtroom films South Korean drama films South Korean films based on plays Films about father–son relationships Films about educators Films about lawyers Films about school violence Films about suicide Films directed by Kim Ji-hoon Films set in Seoul Films set in Gyeonggi Province Films set in 2017 Middle school films