Love and Leashes

Jung Ji-woo and Jung Ji-hoo work at the same company, and their similar names cause an awkward mix-up early on. Ji-woo is drawn to her polished, well-liked colleague, and when she accidentally learns that he enjoys being dominated, the discovery changes how she sees him. She is comfortable taking charge, so the two agree to a private arrangement with clear rules: three months of consensual role-play involving pleasure and pain, kept separate from their jobs. The arrangement suits them both at first, but over time the boundaries they set become harder to maintain, and they must work out what the relationship means once the agreed period ends. The film is based on a webcomic.

Love and Leashes is a South Korean comedy-romance directed by Park Hyun-jin, who also wrote the screenplay with Lee Da-hye, and produced by Choi Bo-ram through See At Film. It is Park's second feature, following Lovers of 6 Years in 2008. Seohyun plays Ji-woo and Lee Jun-young plays Ji-hoo, with Lee El, Seo Hyun-woo, Kim Han-na and Ahn Seung-gyun in supporting roles. Released in February 2022, it runs 118 minutes.

On IMDb it holds a 6.3 rating from roughly 7,900 votes, while on TMDB it scores 6.8 from a much smaller pool of 323 votes. A critics' rating of 6.3 from nine reviews places it in line with the broader audience response.