← Time Travel Movies2000

included · Communication

Il Mare

In the year 1999, a young woman leaves her quaint seaside house and returns to the city, leaving in the mailbox a card for the next owner, with instructions to forward any mail of hers to the new address. In the year 1997, a jaded young architect moves into the same house and finds the letter. His reply, which he slips into the mailbox, finds its way to her, beginning a parallel-time love story separated by a span of two years.

Drama, Romance, Fantasy

Before you choose

What kind of time-travel story is this?

Temporal events and their consequences run throughout the story.

Meets the archive’s time-travel criteria. The mechanism is classified as Communication.

Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)

Letters sent across two years sustain the romance and allow knowledge of later events to change earlier outcomes.

A mailbox carries letters between residents living two years apart, allowing future knowledge to affect earlier events.

Check the supporting sources ↓

An editorial assessment based on the archive’s documented plot research.

Explore other films in this classification →

Scale, legacy & time

The scores

Titan60.7

Weighted archive score

Time-travel significance9/10

high confidence

Quality consensus7.4/10

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: 71.62 base × 84.8% 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: Gianna Jun, Lee Jung-jae, Kim Mu-saeng, Cho Seung-yeon, Min Yun-jae

Edition by edition

Releases & formats

2 cataloged editions. Narrow by format, then check region, audio and subtitles. Missing specifications mean unknown, not absent.

These listings do not establish a best edition. Use the specifications to shortlist compatible releases, then follow the source to verify details and availability.

Digital

Il Mare HD (2000)

Compare this edition’s specifications

Edition specifications have not been cataloged yet.

View release source ↗

DVD

Il Mare (2000)

Compare this edition’s specifications
Release date
Feb 11, 2003
Studio
Tai Seng
Resolution
1080p
Region / playback
Region 1
View release source ↗
← Explore more time-travel films