Hanoi Bride

Cast:

Lee Dong Wook – as Dr. Park Eun Woo

Kim Ok Bin – as Ly Thi Vu

Park Soh Go

In Lan

Synopsis:

 Bride From Hanoi is a very special, two-part K-Drama, filmed to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam war. It tells the story of Eun Woo (Lee Dong Uk), a Korean doctor who meets and falls in love with Tib, a half-Korean, half-Vietnamese woman (Played by Kim Ok Bin) whilst in Vietnam. However, Tib's sister is opposed to the match, as she was hurt by a Korean man in the past, and so persuades her Tib to break off the relationship.

Eun Woo returns to Korea broken hearted, only for his older brother Sok Woo (Lee Won Jong) to head off to Vietnam in search of a bride himself. But when he returns with a young woman on his arm, Eun Woo is horrified to discover that it is Tib!

What I Think:

This is definitely a good mini-movie! I was thinking of the first part of the movie where Lee Dong Wook ( Eun Woo) was trying to electrically revive a patient and he was lying on top of the patient, that was a big blooper coz when doctors do that, the first thing that they say is “All Clear! Give me 150 joules!” but LDW was sitting on top of the patient, then he could have been electricuted along with him!! That scene remined me of Kim tae Hee’s scene in Love Story in Harvard.

Are Lee Dong Wook’s lips the reddest or what? His lips are really red, so cute! The only other actor I can think of with lips as red as his is Jo In Sung. J  How I love Lee Dong Wook, he is so tall and lean and wonderfully sexy! Hehe! He is really handsome, and Thi vu is kinda pretty too and speaks korean well. Oh and I love Lee Dong Wook’s clothes here too, his look is very casual, jeans, clean pressed shirts with sweaters on very different from his outrageous clothes in “My Girl.”

Lotus flowers, I never knew Lotus flowers are gorgeous! My fave flowers have always been Tulips, I thought the flowers Thi Vu was carrying were Tulips but they were Lotus! Nice! The backdrop scenes were awesome too! Vietnam is so wonderful, very scenic and Korea has always been scenic! The scenes of Eun woo and Soh go’s plantation is the very same flower field used in Summer Scent! I love that place!

Some nice scenes to watch out for:

@ Eun Woo meets Thi Vu at the bike parking, she brought Lotus flowers, he was staring at her and tipped the whole line of bicycles there! That is funny.

@ Old patient: What relationship do you have with this woman?

    Eun Woo: I love this woman!! (in perfect Viet! Thi Vu was angry that he pretended he didn’t   

    understand any Viet! She stormed out)

@ Thi Vu never coming to the airport to see  Eun woo off.

@ Eun woo almost telling his brother that he used to date Thi Vu.

@ Park Soh Go and In Lan together, I just feel that they belong together when I saw them walking side by side.

@ Thi Vu breaking down when she knew her sister’s deception.

@ Mom giving Thi Vu her jade ring. She loves Thi Vu, this scene made me cry.

@ Soh goh telling Eun Woo what happened to Thi Vu when he left her in Vietnam.

@ Eun woo telling his family that he will marry Thi Vu, his mom went bersek

@ The ending with Thi Vu telling Eun woo “ I would still love you even if you hadn’t came.” 

Rating: 9 Korean kimchis out of 10

CREDITS: hancinema