Marrying the Mafia (2002)

Writer/director Heung-sun Jeong scored South Korea's top-grossing film of 2002 with his wacky gangster comedy MARRYING THE MAFIA. Dae-suh (Jun-ho Jeong) is an up-and-coming businessman who wakes up next to a beautiful young stranger, Jin-kyung (Jeong-eun Kim), after a night of drunken debauchery. Willing to write off the situation as an unfortunate one-night-stand, Dae-suh is dismayed to learn that Jin-kyung is the daughter of a powerful mob boss who sees an opportunity for political legitimacy in the respectable young executive. It isn't long before Dae-suh finds himself being threatened into marriage by Jin-kyung's mobster family in a series of slapstick scenarios that bring a thoroughly unconventional and distinctly South Korean approach to the standard romantic-comedy formula.