Hak-su goes to Seoul in hopes of becoming a rapper on the TV show Show me the Money, but fails every audition. After bombing his sixth audition, he learns that his father has fallen ill and returns home. He has no lost love for his father, who didn’t even show up for his mother’s funeral, but doesn’t have the heart to ignore him completely. But things at home have changed: former admirer Sun-mi is a rising author; his old bully Yong-dae has become a gangster; and the student teacher who stole his poem has become a local newspaper reporter. Believing only “the sunset is worth anything” in the town he left behind, Hak-su learns that he has not yet let go of anything. Director Lee Joon-ik’s Sunset in My Hometown speaks to the younger generation of the bittersweet moments of youth from the perspective of an older generation with an honest but coarse voice. Modest in form and a bit tacky, this is a warm film focusing on the good in men. (Song Kyong Won)