DVD
My Mother, the Mermaid (2004)
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- Release date
- Oct 26, 2012
- Studio
- Unknown
- Resolution
- 480i
- Region / playback
- Region 1
- Discs
- DVD | Single disc (1 DVD)
included · Unknown
My Mother the Mermaid
Na-young works at a post office and is sick and tired of being around her shamefully unyielding mother and her pushover father who's excessively nice. The only thing that she can look forward to is her trip abroad in a few days. But one day, her father leaves home without any notice. Her mother doesn't care what happens to him and doesn't care to look for him. Na-young has no choice but to give up her dream trip abroad and to search for her father instead. Once she arrives at her parents' hometown, Na-young is shocked to meet someone she'd never expect, even in her dreams.
Fantasy, Romance
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What kind of time-travel story is this?
Time travel is an important premise, with limited sustained exploration.
Meets the archive’s time-travel criteria. The mechanism is classified as Unknown.
Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)
Na-young stays with her young mother through her parents' courtship before returning; the temporal visit serves understanding rather than revision.
Na-young enters the past and meets her mother at twenty; the source does not identify a specific cause.
Check the supporting sources ↓An editorial assessment based on the archive’s documented plot research.
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The scores
Titan20.5
Weighted archive score
Time-travel significance6/10
high confidence
Quality consensus6.7/10
Aggregate source ratings
How Titan works
Titan combines the archive’s quality, audience and legacy base with the significance of time travel. It is an index, not a score out of 100, and is distinct from the FMV archive’s scoring model.
Titan = base × [0.20 + 0.80 × (time-travel score ÷ 10)²]
This film: 42.07 base × 48.8% weighting.
Partial inputs flag incomplete source metadata. Provisional weighting flags a time-travel assessment that remains uncertain; it receives no additional confidence penalty.
The evidence
Research & sources
Research notes may reveal plot details.
These sources support the plot facts and catalog research. The numerical scores are the archive’s judgments, not ratings supplied by these sources.
Cast: Jeon Do-yeon, Park Hae-il, Goh Doo-shim, Park Myung-shin, Shin Dong-hwan
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