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Lee Joon-ik’s Sunny screens at the KCC

This month’s screenings at the KCC show what a versatile director Lee Joon-ik is. After the famous King and the Clown and the musical buddy movie The Happy Life comes Sunny, set in the Vietnam War era – 21 June at the KCC.

Sunny (님은 먼곳에)

Sunny posterDirector: LEE Joon-ik (2008, 126 mins)
Screening Date: 7PM, June 21, 2012
Theatre: Multi-Purpose Hall, KCCUK

Synopsis
Soo-ni 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 Republic of Korea Army, and though she visits him regularly, he doesn’t return her affections. After Sang-gil is sent to fight in the Vietnam War, Soo-ni 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.

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