Title: Il Mare
Genre: Romance
Released Date: September 9, 2000
Synopsis:
Il Mare is a beautiful home with a mysterious mailbox that somehow transcends time. The story started when Eun-joo, a pretty lady aspiring to be a voice actress, is moving out from Il Mare in the year 1999. She left a Christmas card on the mailbox with the instruction for the next tenant to forward her mails to her new address. But, her card was received in the year 1997 instead by Sung-Hyun, an architect and the actual first tenant of Il Mare. Sung-Hyun was bewildered with the message and answered the letter left by Eun-joo. This started their correspondence and they realized that they are communicating at a different timeline. In their exchanges, a series of events occurred. Sung-Hyun develop a love for Eun-joo while Eun-joo at certain time was still hang up with her first love, who ended up marrying a different woman when he went abroad. They exchanges favours as well and one of them is for Sung-Hyun to stop Eun-joo’s fiancee from going abroad, so, her fiancee will not meet and ended up marrying another woman. Sung-Hyun promised to do so for Eun-joo and they also set a date for them to meet in the future. On the day Sung-Hyun is supposed to stop Eun-joo’s fiancee in leaving, Eun-joo witness an accident. While on the day Sung-Hyun is supposed to meet her, he didn’t come. Eun-joo who started also to have feelings for Sung-Hyun was confused and hurt as to why Sung-Hyun didn’t come on their date. She later realized why.
Characters:
- Jun Ji-Hyun as Eun-joo
- Lee Jung-Jae as Sung-Hyun
- Kim Mu-Saeng as Professor
- Jo Seung-Yeon as Jae-Hyeok
- Min Yun-Jae as Jung-Suk
- Kim Ji-Mu as Ji-Hoon
- Choi Yoon-Young as Hye-Won
- Nam Jeong-Hee Eun-Joo’s Mother
- Kwon Yeon-Gyeong as Cafe Owner
My Review:
This was remade by Warner Bros. starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullok entitled “The Lake House’. Even with stellar cast and budget to create the english film version of Il Mare, The Lake House, this doesn’t even begin to succeed the feel and connection that Il Mare has brought to its audience. There’s something emotional about how K-Movies and Dramas are done. Their films don’t dwell too much on what one can see but on how one can feel. Truly remarkable to do and achieve. Il Mare is one of such films that was able to achieved this. Even with its flaws, it provided so many feelings on its audience that even with no specific explanation as to how the mailbox can provide this time-travel aspect or why they are chosen to be the ones to experience this, I, for one, don’t really care. I just felt the excitement and the love between the lead characters as it develops. Something that its american film counterpart didn’t even achieve in my opinion. The lead actors of the film were able to entwined my feelings with them as I watch it that I don’t care for explanations not given by the film. It was truly a joy to watch a film that not only entertains but makes you want to forget your real life and wish you are the character on that film and it is actually happening to you.
Would I recommend this K-Movie? YES, with the capital YES.
My Rating to this Drama
( See My Rating System: ) 5/5 Stars
OST:
01. Il Mare OST – Rachel Portman
02. Il Mare OST – Bossa Ghetti
03. Must Say Goodbye (Korean Version) – Kim Hyun Chul
Play Me:
04. Must Say Goodbye (English Version) – JayQuench
Play Me:
05. Il Mare OST – Se Ga Ji (Gi Chim Gwa Gi Nan Gwa Sarang)
Download Area for the OST (Please take note that this is an outside URL and it’s not mine. Posted it for if I love the music and I want a copy I always have a difficult time to find sites that will provide you the music without the hassle. So, kudos to this site!!!):
http://mp3freex.net