The first film of Jae-Young Kwak, My Sassy Girl is the quintessential romantic comedy out of Korea. It's important to remember that in South Korea all young men are expected to serve a short term in the military. For a country on the border of a bakemonogatari watch order communist country under the leadership of a psychopath, conscription is necessary. So, there's been a long tradition of a 20-something cinema that makes light of the young men and their situation and their futures that are always abruptly cut out from them for a couple of years in their twenties. This film takes that anxiety and crafts a brilliant comedy, in which our nimble, anxious young man can't quite keep up with his energetic, straightforward girlfriend. The love story is powerful and shortly after this film was released, a few hundred more copycats were made, none of them nearly as good, but all of them pocketing cash in handfuls. As one of the first true crossover college age hits to America, there's currently an American remake in the works (which I beg you all to boycott).