The Tango Lesson
Director/Producer PARK Hyuckjee | Korea | Film: 100min / TV: 53min | Delivery Date: July 2025
Project Description
Director | PARK Hyuckjee |
Producer | PARK Hyuckjee |
Production Company | Hiharbor Pictures |
Shooting Format | 4K |
Keyword | Character, Family, Society |
Length | Film: 100min / TV: 53min |
Language | Korean |
Production Country | Korea |
Contact | oojooejoo@gmail.com |
Production Schedule
Pre-production | 2023. 5. ~ 2023. 6. | ||||
Production | 2023. 7. ~ 2024. 12. | ||||
Post-production | 2025. 1. ~ 2025. 6. | ||||
Delivery | 2025. 7. | ||||
Synopsis
Senior citizens in their 70s wait for their dance instructor at an elderly welfare center in Seoul. Surprisingly, the instructor of the first class of the second semester is Lee Min-jae, who is 75 years old with 20 years of teaching experience under his belt. A theater actor of 50 years, his eloquence, skill, and agility make the dance beginners smile. After class, he loads himself on the subway as instructed by his doctor. Late at night in December, he arrives in Daehak-ro and skips dinner for a theatrical practice. When his family gathers, his wife looks worried about Min-jae's health, who has become busy these days. Min-jae suddenly announces that he will go to Argentina to learn the tango. His two sons oppose saying, "Think about your age." Six months later, Min-Jae arrives in Buenos Aires by himself and is happy as he looks for a tango class.
Director's Note
Among the two stages of the elderly population, the “late elderly” aged 75 or older are a group that needs a lot of welfare due to disease and deterioration of body functions. Last year's Cannes Film Festival's hot topic Plan 75 calls for people aged 75 or older in Japan to apply for death to the state. The reason why Japan, the world's No. 1 aging society, cannot be taken lightly is that Korea will outpace Japan in the proportion of the population aged 65 or older by 2050. But are they all quietly waiting for death and wasting people's taxes? Here is a late elderly man who has lived as a theater actor for 50 years and a dance instructor for 20 years. Now he has a new dream. What it is like for him to move to Argentina and become a tango dancer? And what is it that his journey tells us?
 | He produced and directed feature films With or Without You, Oh! My Papa, Speed of Happiness and Girl who dreams about time. The fifth feature, A cellist coming to Earth has finished filming and is in post production. |
| Director PARK Hyuckjee | |
