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A Reason to Live is a film of genre Drama with Song Hye-kyo
A Reason to Live (2011)
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Add to a movie listA Reason to Live (Hangul: 오늘; RR: Oneul; lit. "Today") is a 2011 South Korean film written and directed by Lee Jeong-hyang. It stars Song Hye-kyo as a director who forgives a teenage boy for killing her fiancé. It premiered at the 2011 Busan International Film Festival, and was released in theaters on October 27, 2011. It received 131,194 admissions.
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Documentary filmmaker Da-hae (Song Hye-kyo) 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 for him 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.Actors
Song Hye-kyo
(Da-hye)
Nam Ji-hyun
(Ji-min)
Song Chang-eui
(Song-ho)
Kim Ji-young
(Young Da-hye)
Ki Tae-young
(Sang-woo)
Jin Kyung
(Sang-woo's sister)
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