In a suburban apartment on the hottest day of the century, we find the women fanning and chatting in one spot and the men drinking and scratching in another. Soon violence erupts as a husband chases his abused wife into the open. Everyone has seen this before and the men ignore the battering, but today in the heat the women rise up in anger against the wife-beater, who dies on the way to the hospital. As the police arrive, ten women flee to the roof. All of Korea watches on TV as they hold their position for four days and nights, until the situation is resolved in the most unlikely way… —IMDb
He entered the Korean Academy of Film Arts in its 3rd year of existence and made his directorial debut with A hot roof (Gaegat-eun nal-ui ohu). This work achieved both box office and critical success for its lighthearted look at the position of women in Korean society and the bonds between them. He also directed Inch’Alla (Insyalla(Inch’Alla), a melodrama about a South Korean woman and North Korean man who fall in love in the Moroccan desert and Season In the Sun (Boriul-ui Yeorum), a family movie. – Korean Film Archive
