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All the book-based movies and TV shows adapted by Chang-dong Lee

Chang-dong Lee is known for adapting Barn Burning, the book by Haruki Murakami published in 2014, for cinema.
We invite you to watch, read, and vote for either the adaptation or the original, and join the debate on whether the book or the movie is better.
Burning. Poster of the 2018 movie and cover of the 1983 book, Barn Burning
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Barn Burning
Haruki Murakami, 1983
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Burning
Chang-dong Lee, 2018

An aspiring young novelist, Lee Jong-su performs odd jobs in Paju. Jong-su initially does not remember her, but Shin Hae-mi tells him she had plastic surgery. Jong-su passes by Hae-mi’s apartment, where he receives instructions about feeding the cat. Later, they have sex in Hae-mi’s apartment.