What is Queen of Tears about?
The queen of department stores and the prince of supermarkets weather a marital crisis—until love miraculously begins to bloom again.
Queen of Tears (2024)
A queen and a prince of retail navigate a darkly comedic marital crisis, finding heartwarming love blooming anew.
Melancholy and romantic, with dark satire. A date-night pick at a measured pace. Emotionally it is heavy.
Streaming on Netflix.
Queen of Tears parents guide
There is no US rating to lean on. What we tagged stays mild: some innuendo or implied sex and no real violence.
- Scare
- Not scary
- Jump scares
- None noted
- Gore
- No gore
- Violence
- No real violence
- Sex and nudity
- Mild
- Mild means innuendo, or sex implied off screen, with no nudity.
- Language
- Mild
- Mild words like damn, hell or crap.
How we rate: an AI reads what is known about each title and tags it 0 to 3; we check the tags against a hand-rated set and correct them by hand when readers tell us. Estimates, not a scene-by-scene review. Spot a mistake? Tell us.
Cast and crew
Created byPark Ji-eun, Jang Young-woo, Kim Hee-won
StarringKim Soo-hyun, Kim Ji-won, Park Sung-hoon, Kwak Dong-yeon, Lee Ju-bin, Kim Kap-soo
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Queen of Tears is on our Korean, K-dramas and Comedy on Netflix lists.
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