In My End Is My Beginning
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| Hangul | 끝과 시작 |
| Hanja | |
| Revised Romanization | Ggeutgwa sijak |
| McCune–Reischauer | Kkŭtgwa sijak |
| Directed by | Min Kyu-dong |
| Written by | Min Kyu-dong |
| Produced by | Min Ji-soo Seo Eun-jung |
| Starring | Uhm Jung-hwa Kim Hyo-jin Hwang Jung-min |
| Cinematography | Kim Byeong-seo Kim Jun-young |
| Edited by | Seong Su-a |
| Music by | Kim Jun-seong |
| Distributed by | Lotte Entertainment |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean |
| Box office | US$252,840 |
In My End Is My Beginning (Korean: 끝과 시작; RR: Ggeutgwa sijak) is a 2013 South Korean romantic drama film starring Uhm Jung-hwa, Kim Hyo-jin, and Hwang Jung-min. It originally appeared as a short film in Five Senses of Eros, a 2009 anthology about sensuality and sexuality. Then, writer-director Min Kyu-dong expanded the short into a feature-length director's cut, which provides a fuller version of the story including "the end" of the relationship not shown in the short. This expanded theatrical version made its world premiere at the 2009 Busan International Film Festival. It was later released in theaters on April 4, 2013.
The title is a quotation from the T. S. Eliot poem East Coker, which is taken in turn from "En ma Fin gît mon Commencement", the saying Mary, Queen of Scots, embroidered on her cloth of estate whilst in prison in England.