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Tue, July 5, 2022 | 00:18
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Kim Hee-sun to return to big screen after 19 years
Posted : 2022-05-22 17:12
Updated : 2022-05-23 15:17
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Actress Kim Hee-sun / Courtesy of MBC
Actress Kim Hee-sun / Courtesy of MBC

By Kwak Yeon-soo

Actress Kim Hee-sun, who recently wrapped up filming the MBC drama, "Tomorrow," will return to the big screen for the first time in 19 years. Her last movie was the 2003 romance film, "A Letter from Mars."

In the upcoming romantic comedy film, "Sweetish" (literal translation from Korean), she will portray a single mother. Actor Yoo Hai-jin will play her partner ― a guy who has never dated before. The filming will start in June.

It will be written by Lee Byeong-heon, well known to have directed "Extreme Job" (2019) and "Twenty" (2015), and directed by Lee Han, who was behind "Innocent Witness" (2019) and "Punch" (2011)

Kim debuted as a TV commercial model in 1993 and was propelled to stardom after appearing in dozens of works, including the drama, "Men of the Bath House" in 1995 and "Sunflower" in 1998.

She has been featured in Chinese movies and TV series, including "The Warring States" (2013) and SBS' "Alice" (2020) in the past few years but has not been in a Korean film since 2003.






 
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