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| Hangul | 리턴 |
| RR | Riteon |
| MR | Rit‘ŏn |
| Directed by | Lee Gyu-man |
| Produced by | Gang Seong-gyu |
| Written by | Lee Gyu-man Lee Hyun-jin |
| Starring | Kim Myung-min |
| Music by | Choi Seung-hyun |
| Cinematography | Kim Dong-eun |
| Editing by | Choe Min-yeong Kim Chang-ju |
| Distributed by | CJ Entertainment |
| Release date(s) | 8 August 2007 |
| Running time | 115 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean |
| Admissions | 677,939 |
| Gross revenue | $4,569,126 |
Wide Awake (Hangul: 리턴; RR: Riteon; also known as Return) is a 2007 South Korean film.
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In 1980s South Korea, a young boy is traumatised after experiencing anesthesia awareness during heart surgery, and no-one believes his story afterwards. Twenty five years later, the doctors and nurses who operated on him begin to die under mysterious circumstances. Dr. Ryu Jae-woo, a surgeon married to Hee-jin, believes that the boy he remembers from his childhood is responsible for the deaths. The leading suspects are Lee Myeong-suk, who has been stalking Dr. Ryu, and the seemingly unhinged Uk-hwan. Hypnosis specialist Oh Chi-hoon also seems to know something about these deaths.
Wide Awake was released in South Korea on 8 August 2007,[1] and its opening weekend was ranked fourth at the box office with 238,819 admissions.[2] The film went on to receive a total of 677,939 admissions nationwide,[1] with a gross (as of 16 September 2007) of $4,569,126.[3]