Sunny

Sunny (2008)

님은 먼곳에

1971, Vietnam... I came to find you.

With hopes of reuniting with her husband, who left for the Vietnam War without telling her, a young wife joins a traveling band as the lead singer.

Date of release
2008-07-23
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (26)
Runtime
2h 6m
Genres
Drama, War, Music
Director
Lee Joon-ik

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Thailand

Sunny is a 2008 South Korean musical drama 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.

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 [South] Korea has the distinctively pure image that [she] has".

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