Sunshine Love | |||||
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Director: | Jo Eun-sung | ||||
Producer: | Lee Jong-ho Lee Jae-seok | ||||
Starring: | Oh Jung-se Jo Eun-ji | ||||
Music: | White Tone | ||||
Cinematography: | Jeong Seong-uk | ||||
Editing: | Kim Jeong-hun | ||||
Studio: | Prain Global | ||||
Runtime: | 79 minutes | ||||
Country: | South Korea | ||||
Language: | Korean |
Sunshine Love is a 2013 South Korean romantic comedy film written and directed by Jo Eun-sung, starring Oh Jung-se and Jo Eun-ji.
Han Gil-ho wants to become a public servant, but so far has failed the civil service exam. His real interest is writing a kung-fu comic book which he has titled I'm a Public Official, featuring a crime-fighting bureaucrat and his two nerdy friends (based on himself and his slacker friends Min-gu and Park). Gil-ho then meets Kim Jung-sook, when he tags along to a meeting where she berates Min-gu into taking responsibility for her pregnant best friend Seung-hee. Gil-ho and Jung-sook realize that they knew each other years ago in college, when she was geeky and similarly hot-tempered and Gil-ho couldn't stand her. After unexpectedly sleeping together after a party, the two begin dating and eventually move in together, with Jung-sook having a regular job as a manager at a water-purifying company. Gil-ho gets an offer from a comic book publisher, but his lack of ambition and inability to commit to anything start to take their toll on their relationship.
Derek Elley of Film Business Asia gave the film a grade of 7 out of 10, calling it an "unobtrusive, indie-style rom-com" with "two good leads and a likeable tone."[1]