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Secret Sunshine

DVD • May 23, 2007 • 2h 23m • NR • Budget $2M • Box Office $11,581,469

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Shin-ae moves to her recently late husband’s hometown. Despite her efforts to settle in this unfamiliar and too-normal place, she finds that she can’t fit in. After a sudden tragedy, Shin-ae turns to Christianity to relieve her pain, but when even this is not permitted, she wages a war against God.

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Original Title:	밀양
Other Titles:	シークレット・サンシャイン
Sub Genres:	faith, based on novel or book, child kidnapping, migration, loss of loved one, church, mother, move, suicide attempt, miryang
Release Date:	Theatre 05/23/2007, DVD 05/07/2008, Theatre US 12/22/2010
Language:	Korean (KO)
Box Office:	$11,581,469 (Foreign)
Age Rating:	NR
Director:	Lee Chang-dong
Type:	Movie
Links:	Movies Countdown, TVDB, IMDB, Letterboxd, TMDB, WIKIEN

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the problem is that the film peaked at around the middle point (specifically at the prison visit scene) and from that point on it had nowhere to go but worse. other aspects of the film were ok if not very good. it also did had some relatability and reality issues though. read more

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Secret Sunshine: A Cinema of Lucidity By Dennis Lim ESSAYS — AUG 24, 2011 Not long into Lee Chang-dongs Secret Sunshine (2007), a melodrama about suffering, salvation, and the dangerously blurred line between belief and madness, the heroine encounters the first of several challenges to her way of looking at the world. Shin-ae (Jeon Do-yeon), a young widow from Seoul, has moved with her little boy, Jun, to her late husbands hometown of Miryang (which translates as “secret sunshine”). She has set up a piano school and found herself the focus of local attention, not all of it wanted. Jong-chan... read more

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