![]() He is highly intelligent and extremely logical, and has an incredible memory, which allows him to uncover untold stories about the deceased through the collection of their important personal belongings. Tang Jun-sang as Han Geu-ru, a 20-year-old with autism spectrum disorder who works as a trauma cleaner for Move to Heaven, over which he took following his father's death.Although he initially does so for financial gain and appears to be ignorant of Geu-ru's condition, he slowly gets to know Geu-ru as they both work together as trauma cleaners for Move to Heaven, gaining a new outlook on life and allowing him to discover the truth about his half-brother and Geu-ru's father Jeong-woo, whom he mistakenly thought had abandoned him when he was still very young. Despite his background, he is still entrusted to take care of Geu-ru after his release, and is instructed stay and work with Geu-ru for a three-month probationary period. He was sent to jail after putting his protégé Su-cheol into a coma during a fight. He is blunt, smokes cigarettes, and moonlights as an underground MMA fighter. Lee Je-hoon as Cho Sang-gu, an ex-convict and Geu-ru's estranged uncle who becomes his guardian upon release from jail. ![]() Entrusted as Geu-ru's guardian, Sang-gu joins his nephew to help run the family trauma cleaning company "Move to Heaven", where in the course of business they uncover untold stories about the deceased while Sang-gu tries to deal with his painful past with Geu-ru's father as well as the traumatic incident that landed him in jail. Geu-ru ( Tang Jun-sang), who has Asperger syndrome, and his ex-convict uncle Sang-gu ( Lee Je-hoon) meet for the first time after the sudden death of Geu-ru's father. The series was released worldwide by Netflix on May 14, 2021. Working as trauma cleaners, they uncover untold stories. The series follows Geu-ru (Tang Joon-sang), a young man with Aspergers, and Sang-gu (Lee Je-hoon), his guardian. It is an original Netflix series, starring Lee Je-hoon, Tang Jun-sang, and Hong Seung-hee. Each room the company cleans may also be seen as yet another box in and of itself-this place where we sleep, eat, and live out our days is just another confinement summarising our being, scaled up to four walls and a door.Īll in all, the show brings to the fore this truism: in death, we realise just how important it is to live.Move to Heaven ( Korean: 무브 투 헤븐: 나는 유품정리사입니다) is a South Korean streaming television series directed by Kim Sung-ho and written by Yoon Ji-ryeon. ![]() As Geu-ru and Sang-gu deliver leftover belongings, they become privy to the departed's struggles and how they've dealt with being boxed-in by life, so to speak asking viewers to rethink our perceptions of who we are versus who we ought to be. ![]() The yellow containers that sum up one's life is a poetic image of how fragile existence can be. ![]() The show also presents a layered problematisation of the idea of boxes. From the literal procedure of ‘trauma cleaning’, to each family’s ordeal as they go through the deceased's personal effects, to even Geu-ru and Sang-gu’s deep-seated pains from their childhoods, or the constant push-and-pull between finding oneself in an otherwise unkind world-the series is able to survey these themes with ease and delicate restraint. It explores, with incredible nuance, the concept of trauma. Move to Heaven offers an intricate balance between the agony of those who have moved on and those who have been left behind. ![]()
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