Daisy (film)
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Daisy is a 2006 South Korean
-Hong Kong
co-production film directed by Hong Kong filmmaker Andrew Lau
of the Infernal Affairs
trilogy, and starring Jun Ji-hyun
, Jung Woo-sung
, David Chiang
, Lee Sung-jae
and Cheon Ho-jin.
Daisy is an urban romantic melodrama between a young art painter, Hye-young (Jun Ji-hyun
), an Interpol
detective
, Jeong Woo (Lee Sung-jae
), and a professional hitman
, Park Yi (Jung Woo-sung
). With a twist that is bound to make its audience think about their own perception about love, Daisy is produced by iFilm and opened in South Korea
n cinemas on March 9, 2006.
There are two versions of Daisy: an Asia
n cut and an international cut.
) is an artist who makes her living by sketching portraits of people for 30 euros per portrait. Park Yi (Jung Woo-sung
) is a professional hit man who sees Hye-young painting in the high mountains and instantly falls in love with her.
One day, while Hye-young is trying to cross a small channel connected by a narrow log, she falls down and loses her art bag, which contains all her painting equipment. Park Yi, who had been watching her from a distance, immediately runs to her rescue; but by the time he gets there, Hye-young is gone. He finds the bag she lost and gets the log replaced with a bridge. The next time she comes to paint, Hye-young is taken by surprise at the sight of the new bridge. Though, initially, she thinks the bridge is a coincidence, she is moved when she finds her lost bag hung in the middle of the bridge. She completes her painting of the mountains and leaves it in place of her bag as a gesture of thanks for the person who had built the bridge for her.
From that day on, she starts receiving daisy flowers daily at 4.15 pm sharp. As the days pass, she is touched by the humor of the person who is sending the flowers and develops a soft spot towards the person. On the other hand, Park Yi is afraid she might be hurt if he gets close to her, because of his profession. He subdues his feelings and maintains a distance from her.
The story takes an interesting turn with the introduction of Interpol detective Jeong Woo (Lee Sung-jae
) in the movie. Jeong Woo is associated with cracking a case concerning drug mafia. One day, on his way to track the activities of the drug dealers, he is encounters Hye-young and her portrait stand. He asks her for his portrait as he surveys the crowd for suspicious activity; this continues for a few more days until one day the drug dealers come to know his hideout.
In the mean time Hye-young starts to believe that Jeong Woo is the one sending her daisy flowers and instantly falls in love with him. Jeong Woo also hides the fact for the fear of blowing up his entire cover.
On the other hand Park Yi who has been constantly keeping an eye on Hye-young and Jeong Woo's activities notices a few mafias advancing towards them with armed pistols. Park Yi instantly grabs his sniper and starts shooting the mafia.
The situation takes a worse turn when Park Yi accidentally shoots Hye-young in the neck by mistake. This leaves Hye-young voiceless for her entire life and Jeong Woo is gushed with guilt for he considers himself responsible for this entire episode.
Jeong Woo is transferred back to Korea from Netherlands and Hye-young is left alone, heartbroken. Park Yi can’t help himself with Hye-young's condition and starts showing up and moving close to her. Hye-young is still in love with Jeong Woo and can't forget him.
After a year, Jeong Woo comes back to the Netherlands and surprisingly shows up on Hye-young’s doorsteps. He apologizes for the entire episode and leaves her in tears. Meanwhile, Jeong Woo's boss, who wants to solve the case behind this whole episode, tells Jeong Woo to catch the guy who shot the mafia with a sniper. Further investigation reveals Park Yi's identity as professional hit man and they plan to catch him red-handed.
Jeong Woo's boss contracts Park Yi's dealer to kill Jeong Woo in a sketch to catch Park Yi.
All will be set and the day on which Jeong Woo is supposed to be killed arrives. Jeong Woo shows up in a car surrounded secretly by many undercover cops. Jeong Woo would have come to know Park Yi as a friend of Hye-young when he had been to apologise to her. Park Yi suddenly shows up and asks Jeong Woo for a private talk.
Jeong Woo stalls all the cops saying he is going around with a friend and is later found head shot with in an isolated place (Though Park Yi obliges his real identity and refuses to kill, Jeong Woo is shot by some other assassin belong to Park Yi group.)
Jeong Woo's boss hints the activities of the killer who killed Jeong Woo to Hye-young in Jeong Woo funeral. Hye-young instantly comes to know the person behind Jeong Woo's murder.
Meanwhile Jeong Woo's boss sketches a much tougher plan to catch Jeong Woo’s assassin by contracting himself for contract killing. On the other hand a few series of events leads Hye-young to know that Park Yi was the one sending her daisy flowers. Park Yi who is all set to assassinate Jeong Woo's boss is takes by surprise when Hye-young shows up asking him to stop. Park Yi instantly shows up but a stray bullet, shot by the assassin responsible for Jeong Woo’s death, that was supposed to hit Park Yi is intercepted by Hye-young, who had seen the reflection of the car that the assassin was in on a building opposite, and she dies.
Park Yi takes his part of revenge by killing and dissolving his entire gang responsible for Hye-young's death. Park Yi is later found stumbling out of the building, limping down the street.
The epilogue shows Park Yi, Jeong Woo, and Hye-young standing in a crowd under an overhang, waiting for the rain to stop. When they spot each other, they smile. Seeing as they're all together, it can be assumed that Park Yi had died from his wounds as well.
, Haarlem
and Epen.
Cinema of Korea
Korean cinema encompasses the motion picture industries of North and South Korea. As with all aspects of Korean life during the past century, the film industry has often been at the mercy of political events, from the late Joseon dynasty to the Korean War to domestic governmental interference...
-Hong Kong
Cinema of Hong Kong
The cinema of Hong Kong is one of the three major threads in the history of Chinese language cinema, alongside the cinema of China, and the cinema of Taiwan...
co-production film directed by Hong Kong filmmaker Andrew Lau
Andrew Lau
Andrew Lau Wai-Keung is a Hong Kong cinematographer and filmmaker. Lau began his career in the 1980s and 1990s, serving as a cinematographer to filmmakers such as Ringo Lam, Wong Jing and Wong Kar-wai. In the 1990s, Lau decided to have more creative freedom as a cinematographer by becoming a film...
of the Infernal Affairs
Infernal Affairs
Infernal Affairs is a 2002 Hong Kong crime-thriller film directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak. It tells the story of a police officer who infiltrates the triads, and a police officer secretly working for the same gang. The Chinese title means "the non-stop path", a reference to Avici, the lowest...
trilogy, and starring Jun Ji-hyun
Jun Ji-hyun
Jun Ji-hyun also known as Gianna Jun, is a South Korean actress and model. She had her breakthrough role in 2001 as The Girl in the film My Sassy Girl which became the highest grossing Korean comedy of all time...
, Jung Woo-sung
Jung Woo-sung
- Career :Jung Woo-sung was born in Seoul on March 20, 1973. After first finding work as a model, he made his film debut in the 1994 movie The Fox with Nine Tails, together with Ko So-young...
, David Chiang
David Chiang
John Chiang is a Hong Kong actor. His Chinese name is Chiang Da-wei . He is sometimes credited as David Chiang.-Biography:...
, Lee Sung-jae
Lee Sung-Jae
Lee Sung-Jae is a South Korea football player currently plays for Sangju Sangmu FC.-External links:*...
and Cheon Ho-jin.
Daisy is an urban romantic melodrama between a young art painter, Hye-young (Jun Ji-hyun
Jun Ji-hyun
Jun Ji-hyun also known as Gianna Jun, is a South Korean actress and model. She had her breakthrough role in 2001 as The Girl in the film My Sassy Girl which became the highest grossing Korean comedy of all time...
), an Interpol
Interpol
Interpol, whose full name is the International Criminal Police Organization – INTERPOL, is an organization facilitating international police cooperation...
detective
Detective
A detective is an investigator, either a member of a police agency or a private person. The latter may be known as private investigators or "private eyes"...
, Jeong Woo (Lee Sung-jae
Lee Sung-Jae
Lee Sung-Jae is a South Korea football player currently plays for Sangju Sangmu FC.-External links:*...
), and a professional hitman
Hitman
A hitman is a person hired to kill another person.- Hitmen in organized crime :Hitmen are largely linked to the world of organized crime. Hitmen are hired people who kill people for money. Notable examples include Murder, Inc., Mafia hitmen and Richard Kuklinski.- Other cases involving hitmen...
, Park Yi (Jung Woo-sung
Jung Woo-sung
- Career :Jung Woo-sung was born in Seoul on March 20, 1973. After first finding work as a model, he made his film debut in the 1994 movie The Fox with Nine Tails, together with Ko So-young...
). With a twist that is bound to make its audience think about their own perception about love, Daisy is produced by iFilm and opened in South Korea
South Korea
The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
n cinemas on March 9, 2006.
There are two versions of Daisy: an Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
n cut and an international cut.
Plot
Hye-young (Jun Ji-hyunJun Ji-hyun
Jun Ji-hyun also known as Gianna Jun, is a South Korean actress and model. She had her breakthrough role in 2001 as The Girl in the film My Sassy Girl which became the highest grossing Korean comedy of all time...
) is an artist who makes her living by sketching portraits of people for 30 euros per portrait. Park Yi (Jung Woo-sung
Jung Woo-sung
- Career :Jung Woo-sung was born in Seoul on March 20, 1973. After first finding work as a model, he made his film debut in the 1994 movie The Fox with Nine Tails, together with Ko So-young...
) is a professional hit man who sees Hye-young painting in the high mountains and instantly falls in love with her.
One day, while Hye-young is trying to cross a small channel connected by a narrow log, she falls down and loses her art bag, which contains all her painting equipment. Park Yi, who had been watching her from a distance, immediately runs to her rescue; but by the time he gets there, Hye-young is gone. He finds the bag she lost and gets the log replaced with a bridge. The next time she comes to paint, Hye-young is taken by surprise at the sight of the new bridge. Though, initially, she thinks the bridge is a coincidence, she is moved when she finds her lost bag hung in the middle of the bridge. She completes her painting of the mountains and leaves it in place of her bag as a gesture of thanks for the person who had built the bridge for her.
From that day on, she starts receiving daisy flowers daily at 4.15 pm sharp. As the days pass, she is touched by the humor of the person who is sending the flowers and develops a soft spot towards the person. On the other hand, Park Yi is afraid she might be hurt if he gets close to her, because of his profession. He subdues his feelings and maintains a distance from her.
The story takes an interesting turn with the introduction of Interpol detective Jeong Woo (Lee Sung-jae
Lee Sung-Jae
Lee Sung-Jae is a South Korea football player currently plays for Sangju Sangmu FC.-External links:*...
) in the movie. Jeong Woo is associated with cracking a case concerning drug mafia. One day, on his way to track the activities of the drug dealers, he is encounters Hye-young and her portrait stand. He asks her for his portrait as he surveys the crowd for suspicious activity; this continues for a few more days until one day the drug dealers come to know his hideout.
In the mean time Hye-young starts to believe that Jeong Woo is the one sending her daisy flowers and instantly falls in love with him. Jeong Woo also hides the fact for the fear of blowing up his entire cover.
On the other hand Park Yi who has been constantly keeping an eye on Hye-young and Jeong Woo's activities notices a few mafias advancing towards them with armed pistols. Park Yi instantly grabs his sniper and starts shooting the mafia.
The situation takes a worse turn when Park Yi accidentally shoots Hye-young in the neck by mistake. This leaves Hye-young voiceless for her entire life and Jeong Woo is gushed with guilt for he considers himself responsible for this entire episode.
Jeong Woo is transferred back to Korea from Netherlands and Hye-young is left alone, heartbroken. Park Yi can’t help himself with Hye-young's condition and starts showing up and moving close to her. Hye-young is still in love with Jeong Woo and can't forget him.
After a year, Jeong Woo comes back to the Netherlands and surprisingly shows up on Hye-young’s doorsteps. He apologizes for the entire episode and leaves her in tears. Meanwhile, Jeong Woo's boss, who wants to solve the case behind this whole episode, tells Jeong Woo to catch the guy who shot the mafia with a sniper. Further investigation reveals Park Yi's identity as professional hit man and they plan to catch him red-handed.
Jeong Woo's boss contracts Park Yi's dealer to kill Jeong Woo in a sketch to catch Park Yi.
All will be set and the day on which Jeong Woo is supposed to be killed arrives. Jeong Woo shows up in a car surrounded secretly by many undercover cops. Jeong Woo would have come to know Park Yi as a friend of Hye-young when he had been to apologise to her. Park Yi suddenly shows up and asks Jeong Woo for a private talk.
Jeong Woo stalls all the cops saying he is going around with a friend and is later found head shot with in an isolated place (Though Park Yi obliges his real identity and refuses to kill, Jeong Woo is shot by some other assassin belong to Park Yi group.)
Jeong Woo's boss hints the activities of the killer who killed Jeong Woo to Hye-young in Jeong Woo funeral. Hye-young instantly comes to know the person behind Jeong Woo's murder.
Meanwhile Jeong Woo's boss sketches a much tougher plan to catch Jeong Woo’s assassin by contracting himself for contract killing. On the other hand a few series of events leads Hye-young to know that Park Yi was the one sending her daisy flowers. Park Yi who is all set to assassinate Jeong Woo's boss is takes by surprise when Hye-young shows up asking him to stop. Park Yi instantly shows up but a stray bullet, shot by the assassin responsible for Jeong Woo’s death, that was supposed to hit Park Yi is intercepted by Hye-young, who had seen the reflection of the car that the assassin was in on a building opposite, and she dies.
Park Yi takes his part of revenge by killing and dissolving his entire gang responsible for Hye-young's death. Park Yi is later found stumbling out of the building, limping down the street.
The epilogue shows Park Yi, Jeong Woo, and Hye-young standing in a crowd under an overhang, waiting for the rain to stop. When they spot each other, they smile. Seeing as they're all together, it can be assumed that Park Yi had died from his wounds as well.
Cast
- Jun Ji-hyunJun Ji-hyunJun Ji-hyun also known as Gianna Jun, is a South Korean actress and model. She had her breakthrough role in 2001 as The Girl in the film My Sassy Girl which became the highest grossing Korean comedy of all time...
as Hye-young - Jung Woo-sungJung Woo-sung- Career :Jung Woo-sung was born in Seoul on March 20, 1973. After first finding work as a model, he made his film debut in the 1994 movie The Fox with Nine Tails, together with Ko So-young...
as Park Yi - Lee Sung-jaeLee Sung-JaeLee Sung-Jae is a South Korea football player currently plays for Sangju Sangmu FC.-External links:*...
as Jeong Woo
Production
The film was shot entirely in The Netherlands, for the most part in the city of AmsterdamAmsterdam
Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
, Haarlem
Haarlem
Haarlem is a municipality and a city in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland, the northern half of Holland, which at one time was the most powerful of the seven provinces of the Dutch Republic...
and Epen.