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Madonna
Madonna
	Theatrical poster
Directed by	Shin Su-won
Written by	Shin Su-won
Produced by	Francis Lim
Starring	Seo Young-hee ; Kwon So-hyun
Cinematography	Yun Ji-woon
Edited by	Lee Do-hyun
Music by	Ryu Jae-ah
Production; company	June Film
Distributed by	Little Big Pictures
Release dates	May 20, 2015 (Cannes); July 2, 2015 (South Korea);
Running time	121 minutes
Country	South Korea
Language	Korean
Budget	US$350,000

Madonna (Korean: 마돈나) is a 2015 South Korean mystery-drama film written and directed by Shin Su-won.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9]^[10]^[11]^[12]^[13]^[14]^[15]^[16] Kwon So-hyun won Best New Actress at the 35th Korean Association of Film Critics Awards.^[17]

Plot

Due to her mounting bills, Moon Hye-rim becomes a nurse's aide and is assigned to the VIP ward to take care of a patient who has been left paralyzed by a stroke, Kim Cheol-oh. Cheol-oh is a billionaire tycoon and the hospital's major investor, and for ten years his unscrupulous son Sang-woo has done everything in his power to extend his father's life through a series of organ transplants because Cheol-oh had instructed in his will that his entire fortune is to be given to charities (thereby putting an end to Sang-woo's affluent lifestyle). One day, a brain-dead, pregnant young woman named Jang Mi-na is brought to the hospital after a mysterious car crash. In exchange for a sum of money, Hye-rim agrees to Sang-woo's instructions that she track down Mi-na's next-of-kin and get them to sign an organ donation consent form for her heart. As Hye-rim delves into Mi-na's past and discovers that Mi-na was bullied since childhood for her hair color, weight and poverty, to her adulthood as a sexually abused factory worker who becomes a prostitute named "Madonna," the more Hye-rim forms a strange bond with her comatose patient and becomes determined to derail the heart transplant.

Cast

Seo Young-hee as Moon Hye-rim^[18]
Kwon So-hyun as Jang Mi-na^[19]
Kim Young-min as Kim Sang-woo
Ko Seo-hee as Go Hyeon-joo
Yoo Soon-chul as Kim Cheol-oh, the Chairman
Ye Soo-jung as Foul-mouthed old woman
Shin Woon-sub as Dr. Han
Byun Yo-han as Dr. Im Hyeok-gyu
Lee Myung-haeng as Sales team manager Park
Kim Jo-jung as Pimp
Han Song-hee as Mi-young
Lee Sang-hee as Ah-ram
Park Hyun-young as Joon-hee
Jin Yong-wook as Jong-dae
Kim Hyun-sook as Mi-na's grandmother
Susanna Noh as Teacher Choi
Kim Jeong-yeon as young Mi-na
Park Ji-young as younger Choi
Choi Hee-jin as Coffee shop owner

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Recipient	Result
2015	24th Buil Film Awards	Best New Actress	Kwon So-hyun	Nominated
	35th Korean Association of Film Critics Awards			Won
	36th Blue Dragon Film Awards			Nominated
2016	52nd Paeksang Arts Awards			Nominated
	3rd Wildflower Film Awards	Best Director (Narrative Films)	Shin Su-won	Won
	3rd Wildflower Film Awards	Best New Actor/Actress	Kwon So-hyun	Won

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