Life Is Beautiful Movie Details:
Hangul | 인생은 아름다워 |
Revised Romanization | Insaeng-eun Aleumdawo |
Country | South Korea |
Language | Korean |
Genre | Drama, Musical, Romance |
Release date | March 19, 2022 (FIFF) September 28, 2022 (South Korea) |
Running time | 2hr 2min |
Starring | Yum Jung-ah Ryu Seung-ryong Park Se-wan Ong Seong-wu |
Directed by | Choi Kook-hee |
Screenplay by | Bae Se-yeong |
Produced by | Park Eun-kyung |
Cinematography by | Back Yoon-seuk |
Edited by | Yang Jin-mo |
Music by | Kim Joon-seok |
Production Company | The Lamp |
Distributor | Lotte Entertainment |
Life Is Beautiful Movie Cast & Characters:
- Yum Jung-ah as Oh Se-yeon
- Park Se-wan as young Oh Se-Yeon
- Ryu Seung-ryong as Kang Jin-bong, husband of Oh Se-yeon
- Ong Seong-wu as Jeong-woo
- Yang Hee-kyung as Dong-tan, landlady
- Park Yeong-gyu as Jin-bong’s father
- Shim Dal-gi as Hyeon-Jeong, Se-Yeon’s childhood friend
- Ha Hyun-sang as Seo Jin, son of Jin Bong and Se Yeon.
- Kim Hye-ok as Jin-bong’s mother
- Ko Chang-Seok
- Yeom Hye-ran
- Jeon Moo-song
- Shin Shin-ae as Aunt Dong-tan
- Kim Jong-soo
- Kim Sun-young
- Ryu Hyun-kyung[
- Kim Da-in as Ye-jin, A daughter full of rebellion.
- Lee Won-hee as a dancer
- Yuk Sim-hwan as dancer
- Kang Seung-wan
Storyline:
The film is a musical drama about a woman Oh Se Yeon (Yum Jung-ah), who makes a strange request to her husband as a birthday gift. It is to find her first love from her school days. Her husband Kang Jin-bong (Ryu Seung-ryong) reluctantly joins her on this journey. The journey is full of life and music.
Life Is Beautiful Movie Box Office Collection & Budget:
Worldwide Collection | US$8.6 million |
About Life Is Beautiful Movie:
The film is a road film in which two people, a wife, and husband wander across the country in search of the wife’s first love, It has music that fits their stories from childhood to the present. It is the first jukebox musical in South Korea, containing familiar popular songs from the 1970s to 2000s.
The filming began on October 14, 2019, and it was wrapped up on February 6, 2020.
The film had its premiere at the 36th Fribourg International Film Festival on March 19, 2022.
The film was scheduled to be released in theaters in December 2020 but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was released on September 28, 2022.