A Reason to Live (2011 film)

A Reason to Live
Promotional poster
Hangul
오늘
Literal meaningToday
Revised RomanizationOneul
Directed byLee Jeong-hyang
Written byLee Jeong-hyang
Produced byHwang Woo-hyun
Hwang Jae-woo
Terence Chang
StarringSong Hye-kyo
Nam Ji-hyun
Song Chang-eui
Ki Tae-young
CinematographyKim Hyeong-ju
Edited byKim Sang-bum
Kim Jae-bum
Music byKim Dae-hong
Kim Yang-hui
Distributed byLotte Entertainment
Release date
  • 27 October 2011 (2011-10-27)
Running time
119 minutes
CountrySouth Korea
LanguageKorean
Box officeUS$365,190[1]

A Reason to Live (Korean: 오늘; RR: Oneul; lit. "Today") is a 2011 South Korean drama film written and directed by Lee Jeong-hyang.[2][3][4] It stars Song Hye-kyo as a director who forgives a teenage boy for killing her fiancé.[5] It premiered at the 2011 Busan International Film Festival,[6][7][8] and was released in theaters on October 27, 2011.[9] It received 131,194 admissions.[10]

Plot

Documentary filmmaker Da-hae loses her fiancé by a hit and run accident on her birthday. But she forgives the criminal who was a 15-year-old boy based on her belief as a Catholic and signs a petition to revoke the juvenile's death penalty. One year later, Da-hae is commissioned by the Catholic Church to make a documentary on the inhumanity of capital punishment. However, her moral convictions and desire to be compassionate are seriously questioned when she finds out that the teenage driver killed a classmate, not long after his reprieve.[11][12]

Cast

References

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