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My Brilliant Life is a film of genre Drama directed by Lee Jae-yong with Kang Dong-won
My Brilliant Life (2014)
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Add to a movie listMy Brilliant Life (Hangul: 두근두근 내 인생; RR: Dugeun Dugeun Nae Insaeng; lit. "My Palpitating Life") is a 2014 South Korean drama film starring Song Hye-kyo and Kang Dong-won. It was co-written and directed by E J-yong based on the 2011 novel My Palpitating Life by Kim Aeran.
My Brilliant Life won the Third Place Audience Award at the 17th Udine Far East Film Festival in 2015.
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Immature and clumsy Dae-soo and beautiful but foul-mouthed Mi-ra were both seventeen-year-old teenagers when Mi-ra became pregnant. Their son Ah-reum was born, but he was diagnosed with the extremely rare genetic disorder progeria, which makes its recipient age prematurely and rapidly. Years later, Ah-reum is now seventeen himself, but his body is that of an eighty-year-old man. Sensing that he doesn't have much time left, Ah-reum writes a story about how his young parents fell in love and how he came to be, hoping to give it as a gift to them on his eighteenth birthday.Actors
Kang Dong-won
(Dae-soo)
Song Hye-kyo
(Mi-ra)
Baek Il-seob
(Mr. Jang)
Lee Sung-min
(Ah-reum's Doctor)
Kim Kap-soo
(Dae-soo's Father)
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