After losing both her parents, Failan (Cecilia Cheung) emmigrates to Korea to seek her only remaining relatives. Once she reaches Korea, she finds out that her relatives have moved to Canada well over a year ago. Desperate to stay and make a living in Korea, Failan is forced to have an arranged marriage through a match-making agency. Kang Jae (Choi Min Shik) is an old and outdated gangster who has no respect from his peers. Short on money, Kang Jae decides to take on the arra... (Full plot summary below)
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After losing both her parents, Failan (Cecilia Cheung) emmigrates to Korea to seek her only remaining relatives. Once she reaches Korea, she finds out that her relatives have moved to Canada well over a year ago. Desperate to stay and make a living in Korea, Failan is forced to have an arranged marriage through a match-making agency. Kang Jae (Choi Min Shik) is an old and outdated gangster who has no respect from his peers. Short on money, Kang Jae decides to take on the arranged marriage. Having nothing more than a picture of Kang Jae, Failan spends her days dreaming and wishing that Kang Jae would come to visit her. Failan often writes to Kang Jae in sorrow about how much she misses and thinks about him, but never has the nerve to give the letters to Kang Jae. Things take a turn when Kang Jae is asked by his boss to take the fall for a murder in exchange for some money. The only hope in his worthless life is the wife he never met.
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| HanCinemaPanos Kotzathanasis"Failan" feeatures an original and well-presented mixture of gangster film and romantic melodrama, although the fact that the last element is the one that eventually takes over, deprive it of becoming a masterpiece. |
| User ReviewFirst LFailan > Maggie Cheung > Cecilia Cheung |
| User ReviewJonas SHardly credible yet so touching and heartwarming. A girl from Mainland China struggles to find her new life in South Korea going for a fake marriage with a gangster who truly fell in love with her... after she died. A sad, sad story which will make you fall in tears. |
| User ReviewMaria Esimple story line but well told and well directed. cannot describe how good choi min-sik is, not just in this film but others as well. have watched it over and over again... |
| User ReviewDan LThe hardest I have ever cried (at a movie). |
| User ReviewSteen TKang-jae, a petty criminal (played by the amazing Choi Min-shik from OldBoy), agrees to take the fall for his boss who has murdered a rival gangster. Yet just before he turns himself in, he's reminded of a Chinese girl (played by the incredibly cute Cecilia Cheung) he married a few years ago to help her get a green card - without ever meeting her). As he learns what has become of her, we are shown her story in a series of flash-backs. Kang-jae realises that the poor girl worked her fingers to the bone hoping that he would one day come for her and this makes him re-evaluate his own life. Ridiculously tragic story that made me weep copiously; it works all the way helped by another astonishing performance by Choi Min-shik. |
| User ReviewSimon-Alexandre CI felt crushed after watching this, one of the saddest movies I've ever seen. It's great but I wouldn't want to ever watch it again. |
| User ReviewJean Rone of the saddest, but best korean movies i've seen so far. absolutely recommend it |
| User ReviewLuke BThis is the most beautiful movie i've ever seen in my life. So beautiful, So touching. This one is closed to my heart for ever. |
| User ReviewMaggie SEmotion. That's it. Oh and beauty. And tears. |
