Title: 키다리 아저씨 | Kidari Ajeossi | Daddy Long Legs
Genre: Romance | Melodrama
Release Date: January 13, 2005
Synopsis:
Cha Young-Mi lost her parents at a young age. She fend for herself for quite sometime until she receives an assistance from a mysterious benefactor. She calls him Daddy-Long-Legs. This benefactor paid her tuition and sent her gifts on important events of her life. After university and experienced on her first job, she received an offer to work as a program writer on a syndicated radio station. She also ended up staying for free on a house wherein the owner is supposedly abroad on a sick live. One day, her computer got busted and was forced to use the computer of the home owner and an e-mail came date-stamped to arrive on that specific day, though it was written and sent a year earlier. The email details a love story written by the unknown owner of the house. The e-mails starts to arrive frequently with details about her being secretly in love with a guy since her school days. She followed him through the years even when he finally got work at the radio station and continually love him from afar as she didn’t have the courage to introduce herself. She was just happy to see him everyday, but, then she was diagnosed with a terminal disease and it will cause her to lose her memory and eventually die. Her greatest fear is not of dying, but of losing her memory of him, hence, she’s sending herself e-mails in the future. Cha Young-Mi was so touched with the story that she made it a part of the radio program where she’s the head writer. Meanwhile, she met a young man, Kim Jun-ho, who works in the library and lives close to her home. The attraction was mutual. Until she suspects that Kim Jun-ho is probably the man that the unseen owner of the house she lives in is probably in love with. As she struggles on this dilemma she finally learns who actually is Daddy-Long-Legs and the mysterious owner of her house.
Characters:
- Ha Ji-won as Cha Young-Mi
- Yeon Jung-Hoon as Kim Jun-Ho
- Park Eun-Hye in a Cameo Role as Girl in Flashbacks as Young-Woo
- Hyun Bin in a Cameo Role as Guy in Flashbacks as Hyung-Joon
- Shin-Yi as Kang Jong-Jong
- Jeong Jun-Ha as PD Lee
- Oh Dae-Gyu as Doctor
My Review:
Although the premise of this love story is sweet and sentimental, I have certain issues with the story itself. I will try very hard not to give spoilers because that will probably ruin the entire film if you are going to watch it. One, how can Daddy Long-Legs afford to pay Cha Young-Mi’s university tuition? Two, there’s something off with the timeline. When did the owner of the house got actually sick for the brother of the owner of the house to follow wishes in regards to Cha Young-Mi? Third, what the heck was that? Wasting so much time just to introduce yourself to someone you love? As if the character is ugly or have something that can be unlovable. And the irony is that in the end the person that the character is loving from afar ended up loving the character anyway, but, now the character is dying. All these seemingly vague questions you will fully understand why I ask these questions after you watched the film. And, these questions are the main reason why the film is so flawed. It is like it was just written the way it was only to string your yearning for a romantic chic-flick but if you look hard enough it truly just becomes another Korean romantic melodrama with someone dying.
Would I recommend this K-Movie? Yeah, I guess so, if you just want a total chic-flick without stretching your mind too much on logical thinking.
My Rating to this Drama
( See My Rating System: ) 3/5 Stars
OST:
01. 꿈길에서 (Orgol Classic Guitar Ver.)
02. Main Title
03. 꿈길에서 (Piano Ver.)
04. 사랑하기 좋은날
05. 지연의 방송사연
06. 영우 이메일 / 영우 나레이션
07. 사랑은 봄비처럼 이별은 겨울비처럼 / 임현정
08. 비오는 창가
09. 사람 찾기
10. 영우의 슬픈 이메일 / 지연 나레이션
11. 곰돌이 선물
12. 영미와 준호의 만남
13. 새벽 꽃시장 / 영미와 준호의 대화
14. 영우의 마지막 메일
15. 회식-숫자쏭 / 신이
16. 회식-사랑은 봄비처럼 이별을 겨울비처럼 / 하지원
17. 꿈꾸는 섬-피아노 버전 / 영미 나레이션
18. 별 언덕 / 정세훈-Hope
19. 꿈길에서 (Slow Ver.) / 준호 나레이션
20. 꿈길에서 (Gary Karr.)
21. Ending – 꿈길에서 (기악 Ver.) / 준호,영미 나레이션