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{{Infobox film
| name = No Regret
| image = No Regret film poster.jpg
| caption = Theatrical poster
| native_name = {{Infobox Korean film name/auto|hangul=^후회하지 않아|hanja=後悔하지 않아}}
| director = [[Lee-Song Hee-il]]
| writer = Leesong Hee-il
| producer = [[Kim-Jho Gwangsoo]]
| starring = {{ubl|[[Lee Yeong-hoon]]|[[Kim Nam-gil]]}}
| cinematography = Yun Ji-woon
| editing = {{ubl|Leesong Hee-il|Lee Jung-min}}
| music = Lee Byung-hoon
| distributor = [[CJ Entertainment]]
| released = {{Film date|2006|11|16}}
| runtime = 114 minutes
| country = South Korea
| language = Korean
| budget = {{USD|100,000}}
| gross = {{USD|305,103}}<ref name="Boxofficemojo">[https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=main&id=noregret.htm "''No Regret''"]. ''[[Box Office Mojo]]''. Retrieved on March 4, 2012.</ref>
}}

'''''No Regret''''' ({{Korean/auto|hangul=^후회하지 않아|rr=yes}}) is a [[List of South Korean films of 2006|2006 South Korean film]] and the feature film directorial debut of [[Lee-Song Hee-il]], based on his earlier short ''Good Romance''.<ref name=Hartzell /> ''No Regret'' is also regarded as "the first 'real' Korean gay feature",<ref name=Bertolin>Bertolin, Paolo. "[http://www.hancinema.net/korean-presence-strong-at-57th-berlin-film-festival-8605.html Korean Presence Strong at 57th Berlin Film Festival]". ''[[Hancinema]]'', February 6, 2007; originally published by ''[[The Korea Times]]''. Retrieved on December 3, 2008.</ref> (although earlier South Korean films, such as ''[[Road Movie (film)|Road Movie]]'', released in 2002, have dealt with [[Same-sex relationship|gay relationships]]), and is also the first South Korean feature to be directed by an [[coming out|openly]] [[gay]] Korean filmmaker.<ref name=Hartzell />

== Plot ==
Su-min is an orphan who, having turned 18, is required to leave his orphanage. Unable to pay for university, he heads for [[Seoul]] where he works various jobs to pay for computer classes. One of those jobs is driving drunks home from bars. After losing his factory job, Su-min ends up taking a job at a host bar. Initially the boss of this host bar is reluctant to take him on, as he knows from experience that openly gay hosts will often leave when they become romantically involved with one of their clients. Having given up on love, Su-min believes that this won't happen to him, until one day a man from his past enters the host bar. That man, Jae-min, is a former driving client, who has fallen in love with Su-min. Su-min refuses his advances, and accepts him as a client only once, and threatens to kill him if he hires him again. Jae-min is undeterred, and after several weeks go by, Su-min gives in. They are very happy in their relationship until Jae-min's mother discovers them together. She orders Jae-min to marry the woman he's been dating halfheartedly. Su-min is angry. With another man from the host bar, they kidnap Jae-min one night and take him to a shallow grave in the forest. Su-min watches passively as his colleague throws dirt on Jae-min, but eventually moves to stop the plan. His colleague, already depressed over a two-timing girlfriend, whacks Su-min with the shovel and leaves the two there in the grave. Jae-min later awakens and takes Su-min to the car and they crash into a tree while going back. As dawn breaks, the two of them start to regain consciousness at the same time cops show up at the scene but inside, without paying attention to the cops, Su-min and Jae-min silently reconcile.

== Cast ==
* [[Lee Yeong-hoon]] as Lee Su-min
* [[Kim Nam-gil]] as Song Jae-min
* [[Kim Jung-hwa]] as Hyun-woo
* Jo Hyeon-cheol as Jung-tae
* [[Kim Dong-wook]] as Ga-ram
* Jeong Seung-gil as Madame
* Lee Seung-won as Hwan-sun
* Park Mi-hyun as restaurant manager
* Park Nam-hee as secretary
* Min Bok-gi as client
* Kim Hwa-young as Jae-min's mother
* Lee Seung-cheol  as Jae-min's father

== Release ==
''No Regret'' was released in South Korea on November 16, 2006, and over the course of its theatrical run received a total of 43,265 admissions,<ref>"[http://www.koreanfilm.org/films2006.html#boxoffice Box-Office Admission Results]" (2006). ''Koreanfilm.org''. Retrieved on December 3, 2008.</ref> becoming the top grossing independent film at the Korean box office.<ref name=Yi>Yi, Ch'ang-ho (March 19, 2007). "[http://www.koreanfilm.or.kr/jsp/news/news.jsp?mode=VIEW&seq=615 Korean Competitors at Barcelona Fest]". ''Korean Film Council''. Retrieved on December 3, 2008.</ref> It was especially popular with young female viewers, some of whom claimed to have seen it more than forty times.<ref>{{cite web|first=Sun|last=Jung|title=Chogukjeok Pan-East Asian Soft Masculinity|url=http://books.publishing.monash.edu/apps/bookworm/view/Complicated+Currents/122/xhtml/chapter8.html|website=Complicated Currents|date=2010|access-date=December 8, 2014}}</ref>

The film was later screened in the Panorama section of the 57th [[Berlin Film Festival]] (February 8 to 18, 2007),<ref name=Bertolin /> and also competed at the 9th Barcelona Asian Film Festival (April 27–May 6, 2007).<ref name=Yi />

== Critical response ==
Adam Hartzell of ''Koreanfilm.org'' found ''No Regret'' to have an "engaging story" and praised the depth given to the characters, saying, "One of the best aspects of this film is how we aren't provided the obligatory caricatures of gay 'types' on prime-time sitcoms in the United States... Refusing to follow the path towards Queer liberation espoused by sitcoms, [''No Regret''] is freed to provide some refreshingly, rip-roaring hilarious moments."<ref name=Hartzell>Hartzell, Adam. "[http://www.koreanfilm.org/kfilm06.html#noregrets No Regrets]". ''Koreanfilm.org''. Retrieved on December 3, 2008.</ref>

It holds a 63% rating on [[Rotten Tomatoes]].<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes Rating">{{cite web |last1=Cornett |first1=Michael |title=No Regret |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/no_regret |website=Rotten Tomatoes |publisher=Fandango Media, LLC |access-date=November 28, 2021}}</ref>

== Awards and nominations ==
;2006 [[Korean Association of Film Critics Awards]]
* Best New Actor - [[Lee Yeong-hoon]]

;2006 [[Director's Cut Awards]]<ref>"[http://english.kbs.co.kr/news/entertainment_news_view.html?No=1940 Hong Sang-soo Named Best Director] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224113715/http://english.kbs.co.kr/news/entertainment_news_view.html?No=1940 |date=2013-12-24 }}". ''KBS Global'', December 22, 2006. Retrieved on December 3, 2008.</ref>
* Best Independent Director - [[Lee-Song Hee-il]]

;[[43rd Paeksang Arts Awards|2007]] [[Baeksang Arts Awards]]
* Nomination - Best New Actor - [[Lee Yeong-hoon]]

== See also ==
*[[List of lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender-related films by storyline]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{official website|http://www.noregret-themovie.com/}} {{in lang|ko}}
* {{IMDb title|0996948|No Regret}}
* {{kmdb film|08860|No Regret}}
* {{hancinema film|No_Regret|No Regret}}

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[[Category:2006 films]]
[[Category:2006 drama films]]
[[Category:2000s Korean-language films]]
[[Category:2000s LGBTQ-related drama films]]
[[Category:South Korean LGBTQ-related films]]
[[Category:2006 directorial debut films]]
[[Category:South Korean drama films]]
[[Category:2006 LGBTQ-related films]]
[[Category:2000s South Korean films]]

No Regret (film) - Revision history

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