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Who Drives Me Crazy

1995 film

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ7997229 ↗
Source-derived summary

Who Makes Me Crazy (Korean: 누가 나를 미치게 하는가) is a 1995 South Korean romantic comedy film starring Lee Byung-hun (in his film debut) and Choi Jin-sil.

Plot

Kim Jong-du, a salesman who believes that luck will change when he becomes a famous writer. However he is forced to give up after his story failed to win at a spring literature contest. Added to this is the fear that his girlfriend Joo-young will leave him. After Joo-young gets a job Jong-du realizes his mistakes that knows that she will never leave him.

Cast

Lee Byung-hun as Lee Jong-du

Choi Jin-sil as Kim Joo-young

Choi Jong-won as Hwang Dal-soo

Kim Il-woo

Kwon Byung-gil

Cho Seon-mook

Choi Hak-rak

Kim Ye-ryeong as Min Ji-hyun

Cho Ju-mi

Lim Dae-ho

External links

Who Makes Me Crazy at the Korean Movie Database (in Korean)

Who Drives Me Mad?

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“Who Drives Me Crazy” enters the record as 1995 film. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Drives, Crazy and film can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1995—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1995-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Drives, Crazy and film.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7997229. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1995.

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This entry incorporates text from “Who Drives Me Crazy” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.