Maundy Thursday (film)

Maundy Thursday Hangul RRUrideului haengbokhan shigan lit. Our Happy Time is a 2006 South Korean film directed by Song Haesung based on a bestselling novel by Gong Jiyoung. Starring Kang Dongwon and Lee Nayoung, the film is about a convicted murderer awaiting execution, and the bond he forms with a suicidal young woman who starts visiting him in jail every Thursday.

Yujeong Lee Nayoung has now attempted to commit suicide three times. Her disdain for her mother and indifference to the rest of the world, isolates her from any chance for happiness. Yujeongs aunt Sister Monica is a nun, and she often goes to the prison to visit death row inmates. Sister Monica meets a new death row inmate who asks if he could meet her niece. Yujeong reluctantly agrees.Yujeong and the death row inmate do not open up to each other immediately. Yujeong comes from a wealthy family and is a professor at a university. Yet, she has never known happiness since the age ofas a result of a sexual assault at the hands of her cousin. The inmate that she meets, named Yunsoo Kang Dongwon, has had an even more traumatic childhood experience. He was abandoned by his parents at an early age and has had to live on the streets while caring for a younger brother. Eventually Yunsoo ends up involved in the criminal world and gets convicted for murder. With their disparate backgrounds, Yujeong and Yunsoo are still able to connect with each other, because both people have encountered grief like few others could possibly know. As they both regain the will to live through their weekly meetings, they must now deal with their feelings for each other and come to grips with the short amount of time they have together. ........

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