Korean cinema’s most notable phenomenon in 2010 was various tests experimented on genre films. Significant changes had occurred to popular genres and genre film directors too showed certain change in their way of thinking. If genre is where desires collide and interact in excuse of public expectations, such change has quite an implication on dynamics of future genres. In the midst of overall market recession, preferring genre films has become more evident leading to diversification and experiments of genres.

Attention on Korean films started to increase as news of awards flew in ceaselessly from overseas film festivals and Korean Wave (dubbed ‘Hanryu’) swept all across Asia. However the heat slowly began to cool down after hitting its peak in 2005 and 5 years have already passed.

There are two main reasons why Late Autumn is being considered one of the most ambitious projects of Korean film industry. First, this film will be remarked as the fourth remake of masterpiece of the legendary filmmaker LEE Manhee, released in 1966. Unfortunately, the original film print no longer exists. The original film was once remade by KIM Ki-young as Promises in 1975 and once more by KIM Sooyong with the same title in 1981.