Sunflower | |||||||||||||
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Director: | Kang Seok-beom | ||||||||||||
Producer: | Jeon Ho-jin Jeon Jae-sun | ||||||||||||
Starring: | Kim Rae-won Kim Hae-sook | ||||||||||||
Music: | Angelo Lee | ||||||||||||
Cinematography: | Kim Woo-jae | ||||||||||||
Editing: | Hahm Sung-won | ||||||||||||
Studio: | DCG Plus Ivision Entertainment | ||||||||||||
Distributor: | Showbox | ||||||||||||
Runtime: | 117 minutes | ||||||||||||
Country: | South Korea | ||||||||||||
Language: | Korean | ||||||||||||
Budget: | $3.3 million | ||||||||||||
Gross: | $8.22 million[1] |
Sunflower is a 2006 South Korean action thriller film directed by Kang Seok-beom. This action with full drama starring by Kim Rae-won and Kim Hae-sook .
Former gangster Tae-sik is released from prison and heads back to his hometown to live in a small restaurant with a woman. Attempting to leave his past behind, he takes a job in a garage and tries to keep away from the local gangs, most of whom still live in fear of his brutal reputation. When a local politician wants to knock down his adoptive mom's restaurant to build a new shopping mall, Tae-sik struggles to avoid returning to a life of violence.
Sunflower was released in South Korea on 23 November 2006,[2] and topped the box office on its opening weekend with 267,065 admissions.[3] It held the number-one spot for a second consecutive weekend,[4] and went on to receive a total of 1,543,429 admissions, with a gross (as of 7 January 2007) of .