Marrying the Mafia ( "Family's Honor") is a 2002 South Korean film released on September 13, 2002, and the first installment of the Marrying the Mafia series. The film sold 5,200,000 tickets, becoming 14th highest Korean films-ticket selling film. For the year of 2002 it was the highest-attended South Korean film, and the second highest-attended film (including international productions) in South Korea with 5,021,001 admissions nationwide.

Plot

The film is a gangster comedy about a businessman who becomes involved with the gangster underworld through the daughter of a crime boss. A businessman and a young woman wake up in bed together with no knowledge of how they got there. Next, the businessman is confronted by the young woman's brothers, who are members of the mafias. The brothers demand that the businessman make an honorable woman of their sister.

Cast

English vocal cast

English language and subtitled versions were presented by ADV Films.

Reception

G. Allen Johnson of the San Francisco Chronicle said that "[the film is] a comedy that tries too hard to be funny, therefore it isn't". Sean Axmaker of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer said that "[the film's] unusual cultural details add a little color to the usual romantic turbulence, but it's otherwise as rote as its American counterparts".

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