Maundy Thursday
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- Movie: Maundy Thursday (English title) / Our Happy Time (literal title)
- Revised romanization: Urideului Haengbokhan Shigan
- Hangul: 우리들의 행복한 시간
- Director: Song Hae-Sung
- Writer: Gong Ji-Young (novel), Jang Min-Suk , Park Eun-Young
- Producer: Lee Seung-Jae, Kim Sang-Geun, Lim Byung-Hoon, Ahn Sang-Hoon
- Cinematographer: Kang Seung-Ki
- Release Date: September 14, 2006
- Runtime: 120 min
- Genre: Melodrama / Prison / Capital Punishment / Romance
- Production Budget: US$ 4.2 M
- Distributor: Prime Entertainment
- Language: Korean
- Country: South Korea
Plot
Yu-Jung (Lee Na-Young) has now attempted her third suicide attempt. Her disdain for her mother and indifference to the rest of the world, isolates her from any chance for happiness. Yu-Jung also has an aunt named Sister Monica. Her aunt often goes to prison to meet with death row inmates. Sister Monica meets a new death row inmate, who asks Sister Monica if he could meet her niece Yu-Jung. Sister Monica asks Yu-Jung if she would counsel this death row inmate and Yu-Jung reluctantly agrees to do so.
Yu-Jung and the death row inmate do not open up to each other immediately. Yu-Jung comes from a family of wealth and is now a professor at a university. Yet, she has never known happiness since the age of 15. The inmate that she meets, named Yun-Soo (Gang Dong-Won), 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 Yun-Soo ends up involved in the criminal world and gets convicted for murder. With their disparate backgrounds, Yu-Jung and Yun-Soo are still able to connect with each other, because both people know 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.
Cast
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| Gang Dong-Won | Lee Na-Young | Youn Yuh-Jung | Kang Shin-Il | Jang Hyun-Sung |
| Jung Yoon-Soo | Moon Yoo-Jung | Sister Monica (Yoo-Jung's aunt) | Lee Ju-Lim | Yoo-Chan (Yoo-Jung's brother) |
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| Jung Young-Sook | Kim Ji-Young | Kim Bu-Seon | Oh Gwang-Rok | Eun Won-Jae |
| Yoo-Jung's mother | Grandmother Park | Hong | Death Row Inmate 2896 | Yoon-Soo (young) |
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| Lee Byung-Jun |
| Eun-Soo (young) |
Additional Cast Members:
- Jung In-Gi - Jeong Min-Seok
- Jung Jin - Tae-Seon
- Yang Ik-June - Hwan-Kyu
- Kim Jin-Hyeok - Prison Guard A
- Kim Se-Dong - Prison Guard Seo
- Lee Jae-Gu - Teacher
- Oh Jung-Se - Teacher Kim
- Kim So-Hee - Jung Yoon-Soo's mother
- Ko Dong-Eop - Jung Yoon-Soo's father
- Choi Jung-Woo - uncle (mother's side)
- Kim Jae-Man - Je-Bi ("swallow")
- Shin Young-Jin - Yoo-Jung's sister-in-law/Yoo-Chan's wife
- Choi Moo-Sung - Priest Kim
- Na Ki-Soo - priest
- Kim Ja-Young - housekeeper
- Choi Yong-Min - President Choi
- Oh Soon-Tae - Ddeok-Dae
- Park Pal-Young - Chief of Detention Center
- Han Sang-Chul - instructor 2
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trebuchette Aug 29 2024 2:41 pm This was my first KDW movie, and I remember crying so hard because of this. This also made me an instant fan of his.
may Jan 09 2021 2:16 am i don't think any movie has ever impacted me the way this movie did... i don't know how to express what i feel right now. i don't think i will ever re-watch this movie, because i don't want to experience that pain ever again. the story will not only touch your heart but also rip it apart. i think everyone should watch this movie at least once because the message is powerful and one everyone should know.
Ogenah Feb 04 2019 11:50 am I almost die of crying
yoja Oct 12 2016 3:55 pm OMG , i cried my heart out at the end of this movie .. i highly recommend it for all sad love stories lovers
CoordiNoona Dec 07 2015 8:07 pm I recommend this movie! Great story and great actors. Made me cry a lot!
AL1 Oct 02 2015 5:32 am I came here through the manga. Initially on reading the review from a manga app I thought it was just another romance manga. But still it was just 8 chapters so I gave it a go. Believe me when I say it is beautiful. There is no other word to describe it. This is also the first time I cried over a short manga. How their worlds and actions intertwine is so beautifully depicted. I can go on and on. But ithink it's better you read it yourself. This is one story I don't want to forget...ever.
stranger Jul 23 2015 1:39 pm if you enjoyed this you should definitely read the manga adaption: Watashitachi no Shiawase na Jikan
one of my top fav story.
jenny Mar 28 2015 6:14 am A movie that made me cried a lot! It showed one must appreciate life no matter how bad the situation could turn out..wahhh.. sooo sad i am about to cry again..I will never ever forget this one..
mimo Oct 05 2014 6:44 pm what an amazing movie
Dianne Apr 18 2014 5:28 am I picked this movie purely by random as it was Maundy Thursday yesterday 2014. I didn't know anything about it, but I'll never forget it. It affected me with so much sorrow, bittersweet sorrow. This movie is for those who sometimes think of others but mostly think of themselves. It reminds us that others, even in prison, are lonely and need someone to help them find their way to peace and love in this life and Heaven as Home in the next life... Fantastic writers, production, and lead actors! I would rate it as 5 Stars!!!
NM17177 Aug 12 2012 11:18 am good movie with good actors and good story
Ki Feb 14 2011 4:23 am Considering Maundy Thursday aka Our Happy Time is directed by Hae-Sung Song (Failan/Rikodazan), has an interesting premise and features one of my favorite actresses on the planet, Lee Na-Young, I was just stoked to see this film. After viewing the film, I was left with a teary eyed expression, but not from any strong emotional ties to the film, but more like the nauseating feeling from whiffing extrememly foul scented cheese. Lots of cheese. Boatloads of cheese and its cheesiness.
Cliche after cliche was thrown into this tear jerker film. For starters, we have a poor orphaned boy, that has had to take care of a younger brother, until that younger brother dies while sleeping out on the cold streets. Eventually the poor orphaned boy almost gets his life straightened, but has to come up with money to pay for his sick pregnant girlfriend. He gets involved in one last criminal act, but winds up getting the blame for a crime that he almost doesn't commit, which is hard to fathom, but nonetheless plausible. Unfortunately the breaking straw to this plausibility is that the condemned killer is played by former model and now actor Dong-Won Kang. Nothing personal against Dong-Won Kang, he was good in the lightweight comedy Too Beautiful Too Lie and was passable as the action hero stud in Temptation of the Wolves, but the guy was simply miscast as a street hardened death row inmate. In a pivotal point in the movie, where he apologizes to the mother of a girl that he killed, he simply could not carry the weight of emotions that the scene required. Or put in a slimper way, the dude just ain't no Choi Min-Sik.
Lee Na-Young was better in her role as the bipolar rich bitch with the occasional mean-streak. Her character, Yu-Jung, has been angry at the world since the age of 15. Her anger is strongest against her mother, because her mother did not try to help her at an earlier traumatic time (and in fact blamed her for her problems). The flashback scene where Yu-Jung confides to her mother, only to get slapped in the face by her mother, was hard to fathom but made more sense after a friend explained the scene better than the actual movie. The movie "Maundy Thursday" was based on a popular Korean novel and in the novel, (but not explained in the movie) Yu-Jung's family was wealthy because of a family run business. Furthermore, the cousin that Yu-Jung accused to her mother, had a father that was an extremely influential politician. That politician could have destroyed their family's business if such accusations became public and this is why Yu-Jungâ's mother reacted the way she did. Corny, but at least the scene made more sense after knowing that fact.
I should note that Lee Na-Young is one of the more talented actresses when it comes to convincingly shedding tears on screen and, unlike her co-star, she was able to do so convincingly again in Maundy Thursday. As you can tell I am quite enamored with Lee Na-Young and this fact may have led me to notice some strange quirks in the movie. One of the more notable goofs would have been early in the film, when Lee Na-Young was sitting alone in her parked car. She takes out a bottle of pills and proceeds to swallow a handful in another attempted suicide. Of course during this scene, I had to notice her hair, which was straight as can be and quite alluring. Yet, in the next scene, Lee Na-Young is laying down in a hospital bed with a fashionably permed hairstyle! I'm not sure if the pills caused her to get the kinky hair or maybe a hair stylist came out to the operation room, but regardless it was another scene hard to fathom.
Besides the presence of Lee Na-Young, there just wasn't much in Maundy Thursday to get excited about. The male lead was seriously miscast and the film had just way to many cliches. These cliches all came to a crescendo during the final scene which was representative of the film as a whole: quite touching in concept but just way to much cheesiness in execution.
kawaiikahji Apr 17 2009 11:47 am it was a heartwarming plot. all actors played well. one of my most beautiful bittersweet korean films. sobs**