The Dude in Me

The Dude In Me is a 2019 South Korean fantasy comedy film directed by Kang Hyo-jin, starring Jung Jin-young, Park Sung-woong and Ra Mi-ran. The film was released on January 9, 2019. Plot Jang Pan-soo is a well-known elite gangster and is married to his boss' daughter. One day, a high school student, Dong-Hyun, falls off the roof by trying to retrieve a shoe and falls on Pang-Soo. Pang-Soo woke up in a hospital and felt something was wrong since everyone called him 'student', and Dong-Hyun's father ran up to him calling him Dong-Hyun and embracing him. Confused he ran to the nearest mirror and realized that he is now inside Dong-Hyun's body. After failing several times to go back to his own body, which is still unconscious in the hospital, he accepts his fate and goes home with Dong-Hyun's father. As time passes by, he realizes that Dong-Hyun is targeted by bullies at school, is overweight, and has really bad eyesight. One by one, he starts fighting back against the bullies until they stop harassing him and Dong-Hyun's friend. During this time, one of his loyal subordinate, Man Chul, is guarding his unconscious body at the hospital and Pan-Soo convinces him that he switched bodies with a high school student and helps Pan-Soo gather intel and daily activities in the gang. One day, Pan-Soo encounters Oh Hyun-Jung, a girl in his class who is also being targeted by bullies at school. He follows her home only to find out that her mom, Oh Mi-Sun, was his old ex-girlfriend. He has Man-Chul get a paternity test for him and finds out that Hyun-Jung is his daughter. Seeing how she is an easy target for bullies at school, he gets her to train with him under Man-Chul's supervision. After a few weeks, Pan-Soo loses all of his body fat, gaining back his fit body and Hyun-Jung learns how to defend herself from her bullies. Hyun-Jung starts to have feelings for Dong-Hyun, not knowing that it's actually her father inside his body.