PLOT : When 18-year-old Ha-min eats his mother Eun-sil’s home cooking, he begins to notice the number 365 drops every time he eats her food. Convinced the countdown marks the remaining days of his mother’s life, Ha-min starts refusing her meals and making excuses to avoid sitting at her table, desperate to stop the number from ever reaching zero. This sudden rejection fractures their relationship, as Eun-sil, whose entire love language is expressed through her recipes, believes her son has grown ashamed of their modest life. Years later, still haunted by the figure, he lives cautiously and at a careful distance from home. Just as he begins to find peace alongside his girlfriend, an unexpected truth shatters everything he believed, turning his world upside down.
Kim Tae-yong. A South Korean film director and screenwriter. His debut feature, Set Me Free (2014), drawn from his own life, was widely praised for its assured direction and earned him the Best New Director prize at both the Blue Dragon Film Awards and the Korean Association of Film Critics Awards. He followed this with the film One Night Only (2014) and the psychological drama Misbehavior (2016). With Number One (2026), based on the book "The Number of Times You Can Eat Your Mother's Cooking is 328” by Sora Uwanohe, Tae-yong reunites with Parasite star Choi Woo-shik for a tender fantasy drama exploring the bond between a mother and her son.
Length 1h 44min
Cast Choi Woo-shik, Jang Hye-jin, Gong Seung-yeon, Kwon Da-ham, Won Hee Lee,
Distribution K Movie Entertainment
Production By4M Studio, Semicolon Studio, Double M, IPD Studio