Sunny (2008 film)

Sunny Hangul RRNimeun meongose lit. My Dear is Far Away is a 2008 South Korean film directed by Lee Joonik. Soo Ae plays the titular Soonyi, whose husband enlists to fight in the Vietnam War, and she decides to join a singing group that will travel to Vietnam to perform for the soldiers there.

Sunny was produced on a budget of 7.1 billion US7 million . Director Lee Joonik made the protagonist female in response to criticism that his films were largely maleoriented. Lee cast Soo Ae in the lead role, saying, No other actress in Korea has the distinctively pure image that she has. Soo Ae did two months of training to refine her singing and dancing skills, and admitted to being concerned over whether or not she could pull off the character.Sunny was released in South Korea on July 23, 2008. On its opening weekend it was ranked second at the box office with 480,144 admissions, and exceeded the one million mark on July 19. As of August 31, Sunny had received a total of 1,804,223 admissions nationwide, and as of Septemberhad grossed a total of US11,093,277 . ........

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