Madonna () is a 2015 South Korean mystery-drama film written and directed by Shin Su-won. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. Kwon So-hyun won Best New Actress at the 35th Korean Association of Film Critics Awards.
Plot Due to her mounting bills, Moon Hye-rim becomes a nurse's aide and is assigned to the VIP ward to take care of a patient who has been left paralyzed by a stroke, Kim Cheol-oh. Cheol-oh is a billionaire tycoon and the hospital's major investor, and for ten years his unscrupulous son Sang-woo has done everything in his power to extend his father's life through a series of organ transplants because Cheol-oh had instructed in his will that his entire fortune is to be given to charities (thereby putting an end to Sang-woo's affluent lifestyle). One day, a brain-dead, pregnant young woman named Jang Mi-na is brought to the hospital after a mysterious car crash. In exchange for a sum of money, Hye-rim agrees to Sang-woo's instructions that she track down Mi-na's next-of-kin and get them to sign an organ donation consent form for her heart. As Hye-rim delves into Mi-na's past and discovers that Mi-na was bullied since childhood for her hair color, weight and poverty, to her adulthood as a sexually abused factory worker who becomes a prostitute named "Madonna," the more Hye-rim forms a strange bond with her comatose patient and becomes determined to derail the heart transplant.
Cast Seo Young-hee as Moon Hye-rim Kwon So-hyun as Jang Mi-na Kim Young-min as Kim Sang-woo Ko Seo-hee as Go Hyeon-joo Yoo Soon-chul as Kim Cheol-oh, the Chairman Ye Soo-jung as Foul-mouthed old woman Shin Woon-sub as Dr. Han Byun Yo-han as Dr. Im Hyeok-gyu Lee Myung-haeng as Sales team manager Park Kim Jo-jung as Pimp Han Song-hee as Mi-young Lee Sang-hee as Ah-ram Park Hyun-young as Joon-hee Jin Yong-wook as Jong-dae Kim Hyun-sook as Mi-na's grandmother Susanna Noh as Teacher Choi Kim Jeong-yeon as young Mi-na Park Ji-young as younger Choi Choi Hee-jin as Coffee shop owner
Awards and nominations Year Award Category Recipient Result2015 24th Buil Film Awards Best New ActressKwon So-hyun 35th Korean Association of Film Critics Awards 36th Blue Dragon Film Awards 2016 52nd Paeksang Arts Awards 3rd Wildflower Film Awards Best Director (Narrative Films) Shin Su-won Best New Actor/Actress Kwon So-hyun
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