Lost and Found

Lost and Found (달콤한 거짓말/Dalkeumhan Keojitmal) is a 2008 Korean romantic comedy. It stars Park Jin Hee, Jo Han Seon, Lee Ki Woo, Kim Dong Wook, Jo Jin Woong, and Choi Eun Joo. The summary is as follows:

TV writer Ji-ho has been secretly in love with the same man for 10 years. After a night of binge-drinking, she wakes up to face the worst day of her life. She wakes up to find out she got fired for low viewer ratings. Her bag gets snatched on the way home and while pursuing the snatcher, she gets hit by a car. But the chain of unfortunate events turned out to be God-sent present. The man who hit her with the car turns out to be the very man she’s been in love with all these years. After bumping her head on the car, she pretends that she doesn’t remember anything and Min-woo is left with no choice but to bring her back home with him. Ji-ho’s childhood friend Dong-sik is worried as Ji-ho doesn’t come home for two days. He goes out on search and miraculously finds her and brings back her home. After learning that Ji-ho is suffering from amnesia after the accident, Dong-sik is determined to help her get her memories back.

First thing's first - although the summary (and the first half of the movie) gives you an impression of a regular romantic comedy where the girl (eventually) gets the guy and they'll live happily ever after, it doesn't end that way. :) Because of that, I found this film rather refreshing. We don't really go in-depth about each character's background history - we just get little tidbits and that's that - something that I'm a little bummed about, but all in all, it came together pretty well. There's also an epilogue-type sequence in the end so it doesn't quite leave you hanging, which is also nice. Besides those main points, it stands like a normal romantic comedy and although entertaining to watch, it only had me hooked half the time.

You can watch it here.