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Sunny
Theatrical release poster
Korean name
Hangul	님은 먼곳에
Revised Romanization	Nimeun meongose
McCune–Reischauer	Nimŭn mŏnkote
Directed by	Lee Joon-ik
Written by	Choi Seok-hwan
Produced by	Jung Seung-hye Cho Chul-hyun
Starring	Soo Ae Jung Jin-young
Cinematography	Na Seung-yong
Edited by	Kim Sang-bum Kim Jae-bum
Music by	Lee Byung-hoon Bang Jun-seok
Distributed by	Showbox/Mediaplex
Release date	June 23, 2008 (2008-06-23)
Running time	126 minutes
Country	South Korea
Language	Korean
Box office	US$11.1 million

Sunny (Korean: 님은 먼곳에; RR: Nimeun meongose; lit. My Dear is Far Away) is a 2008 South Korean film directed by Lee Joon-ik. Soo Ae plays the titular Soon-yi, whose husband enlists to fight in the Vietnam War, and she decides to join a singing group that will travel to Vietnam to perform for the soldiers there.

Plot

Soon-yi is a young woman stuck in an arranged marriage to a man who still loves his college girlfriend. Her husband, Sang-gil, is a soldier in the South Korean army, and though she visits him regularly, he does not return her affections. After Sang-gil is sent to fight in the Vietnam War, Soon-yi resolves to follow him. She joins a band which is heading there, where she sings for the soldiers as "Sunny", with the hope of being reunited with her husband.

Cast

• Soo Ae ... Soon-yi/Sunny
• Jung Jin-young ... Kim Jeong-man, band leader
• Jung Kyung-ho ... Yong-deuk, bassist
• Joo Jin-mo ... Seong-chan, guitarist
• Shin Hyeon-tak ... Cheol-sik, drummer
• Uhm Tae-woong ... Sang-gil, Sunny's husband
• Park Yoon-ho ... Private Kim
• Lee Joo-sil ... Mother-in-law
• Jo Mi-ryung ... Jeni
• Shin Jung-geun ... Battalion commander
• Fredrik Skalin ... Soldier

Production

Sunny was produced on a budget of ₩7.1 billion (US$7 million). Director Lee Joon-ik made the protagonist female in response to criticism that his films were largely male-oriented. Lee cast Soo Ae in the lead role, saying, "No other actress in Korea has the distinctively pure image that has". Soo Ae did two months of training to refine her singing and dancing skills, and admitted to being concerned over whether or not she could pull off the character.

Release

Sunny was released in South Korea on July 23, 2008. On its opening weekend it was ranked second at the box office with 480,144 admissions, and exceeded the one million mark on July 19. As of August 31, Sunny had received a total of 1,804,223 admissions nationwide, and as of September 14 had grossed a total of US$11,093,277.

Awards and nominations

References

1. ^ "South Korea Box Office September 12–14, 2008". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2008-11-29.
2. Lee, Hyo-won (17 July 2008). "Watch Sooni Become Sunny". The Korea Times. Retrieved 2008-11-29.
3. "K-FILM REVIEWS: 님은 먼 곳에 (Sunny)". Twitch Film. 9 October 2008. Archived from the original on 2014-01-21. Retrieved 2013-03-26.
4. Yang, Sung-jin (2 July 2008). "Sunny offers a woman's Vietnam War". The Korea Herald via Hancinema. Retrieved 2008-11-29.
5. "Korean Box Office" (Week-end 2008.07.25 ~ 2008.07.27). Hancinema. Retrieved 2008-11-29.
6. "My Love is Far Away Attracts 1 Mil. Movie-Goers in A Week". KBS World. 29 July 2008. Retrieved 2008-11-29.
7. Yi, Ch'ang-ho (10 October 2008). "HA Jung-woo and SU Ae are tomorrow's stars". Korean Film Council. Retrieved 2008-11-29.
8. Yi, Ch'ang-ho (24 October 2008). "The Chaser extends awards lead". Korean Film Council. Retrieved 2008-11-29.
9. ^ "Sunny - Awards". Cinemasie. Retrieved 2013-03-26.

External links

• Official website (in Korean)
• Sunny at the Korean Movie Database (in Korean)
• Sunny at IMDb
• Sunny at HanCinema

• 2008 films
• 2000s musical drama films
• South Korean musical drama films
• Vietnam War films
• South Korean war drama films
• Films about music and musicians
• Films set in 1971
• Films set in Vietnam
• Films shot in Busan
• Films shot in Thailand
• Films directed by Lee Joon-ik
• 2000s Korean-language films
• Showbox films
• 2008 drama films
• 2000s South Korean films
• 2000s war drama films
• 2008 musical films