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Released
2018 · FILM

Burning

A modest deliveryman reunites with an old acquaintance who entrusts him with her cat, only to be drawn into the enigmatic world of a charismatic newcomer whose secrets threaten to unravel his reality.

“The truth is all in your head.”

Directed by
Sanoj, Lee Chang Dong
Written by
Jose Jinoy, Jungmi Oh
Rated
MPA · NR
Runtime
148 min
Language
KO
DramaMysteryThriller
Streaming on
  • MUBI

Synopsis

Jong-su, a deliveryman, meets Hae-mi, a former neighbor, while on a job. She asks him to care for her cat during her trip to Africa. Upon her return, Hae-mi introduces Jong-su to Ben, a mysterious young man she met while away. Eventually, Ben reveals to Jong-su that he has an unusual hobby.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 31

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Mangalath PraveenShot by Manesh MadhavanScored by BijibalDesigned by Kesav Kiran

Box Office

2018 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.9× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$6.6M

Budget$7.3M
Worldwide gross$6.6M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $40K

Peak 2 theaters

Also known as

  • Burningde
  • Burningen
  • Burning - L'amore bruciait
  • 버닝ko

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