Two Lights: Relumino

Cinephile deep dive

The take

Hur Jin-ho directs. Lee Tae-yoon behind the camera. Cho Sung-woo scores. Choi Jae-geun cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in South Korea. Dialogue in Korean.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

• 1Tight 30-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
• 2Released 9 years ago.
• 3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
• 4Directed by Hur Jin-ho, shot by Lee Tae-yoon. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
• 5Original score by Cho Sung-woo. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
• 6Editor Choi Jae-geun shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
• 7Park Hyung-sik and Han Ji-min and Kim Ki-cheon carry the top of the cast.
• 8Marketing tagline: "I think I just saw it.".
• 9IMDB entry: tt8360186 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
• 10Only 23 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Cinematography

Lee Tae-yoon

Original score

Cho Sung-woo

Editing

Choi Jae-geun

Production design

Son Min-jeong

Costume design

Shin Ji-young

Sound

Kim Yong-gyun

Runtime

30 min · 0h 30m

Status

Released

Original language

KO

IMDB

Two Lights: Relumino (2017) ↗

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Trailers & featurettes

Watch the pieces

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Community reviews

What people are saying

• ParkMin2024-09-04
  ★ 7/10

  Pushing to establish a new romantic relationship between strangers under 30 minutes can only produce a rushed one even with a few skips and charming leads. They had plenty of material, topics and themes to fill up the 30 minutes runtime more gracefully. They could've easily extended it into a full feature film. Anyway, it was decent enough.

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Production companies

Who made it

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  Samsung Electronics

  KR

• CH

  Cheil Worldwide

  KR

• HO

  Ho Film

  KR

• EA

  East Gate Company

  KR

Key crew

• Sound DesignerKim Yong-gyun
• Production Sound MixerAhn Bock-nam
• Production DesignSon Min-jeong
• EditorChoi Jae-geun
• Costume DesignShin Ji-young
• Lighting DirectorYoo Huck-jun
• ProducerKim Jin-ah

Themes & keywords

What it's about, really

• photography
• romance

Release history · US

When it landed

• Theatrical2017-12-21

Also known as

International titles

• Dugaeeui bich: RilluminoKR
• Two Ray of LightsGB
• Two Lights: RelúmĭnoUS
• ضوءان ريلومينوSA