Daisy (Korean Movie)

This is the 4th and latest movie of the Korean actress Jeon Ji Hyun of My Sassy Girl and Windstruck fame. In this movie she has moved away from her cutsie characters in the 2 earlier movies and into a serious dramatic role here.

In Daisy, Jeong Ji Hyun is a side walk sketch artist in Amsterdam. She lives above her gallery and often wanders the countryside doing impressionist styled paintings of it and dreams of being able to have an exhibition show of her own one day.

While crossing a log bridge one day she fell off and into a shallow stream. Unknown to her, she was watched by a Korean man, Jung Woo Sung, who was living nearby and he retrieved her satchel which was washed away. Besotted with her innocent beauty, he began sending a pot of daisy to her gallery every afternoon. He also replaced the crude log bridge with a more wider and safer bridge for her to cross.
Touched by this mysterious admirer, Ji Hyun left a painting of a field of daisy behind on the bridge for him.

Every morning, he watches her from afar as she does her morning round of sketching for customers in the square. Due to his work as an international professional killer he kept his distance from Ji Hyun.

One day, a young Korean man, Lee Seong Jae, approached Ji Hyun for a sketch but he left before she could complete but promised to be back the next day. Ji Hyun completed it based on her memory so was able to hand it to him the next day. He was smittened by her and was soon at her shop with a pot of flowers. Ji Hyun mistakened him for her mysterious admirer and he did not want her to know he is not the man she was waiting for.
Soon, they became close and he often visited her in the square but one day, some men started walking quickly towards him. Lee Seong Jae was in actual fact an undercover Interpol agent and he was their target now.
Jung Woo Sung was, as usual, watching and he saw these armed men approaching Ji Hyun and Seong Jae who were unaware of their danger. Woo Sung fired at these gunmen and soon the square turned into a battlefield. Ji Hyun was shot in the throat in the cross fire.

Seong Jae was devastated that she was injured because of him but because he undercover status was exposed he could not remain in Holland and must leave Ji Hyun, who had lost her speech as a result of her injury.
Heart broken that Seong Jae had left her, she went through her days in a daze.
Unable to look at her constant lonely pain, Jung Woo Sung approached her daily and tried to fill the gap in her life left vacant when Seong Jae left her.
Despite the kindness of Woo Sung, Ji Hyun could not get over her love for Seong Jae and told him so in writing.
Still, Woo Sung continued to keep her company but one day Seong Jae turned up suddenly at her apartment while Woo Sung was there.

Thus, the stage was set for the girl caught in between the killer and the hunter. There can be only one end result.

While this is a fresh side of Jeon Ji Hyun, perhaps she chose the wrong vehicle to extend her dramatic range as the formula is pretty cliche. Still, pretty watchable because Jeon Ji Hyun is very pretty and watchable.
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Cast:
Jeon Ji Hyun as Hye Young
Jung Woo Sung as Park Yi the assassin
Lee Seong Jae as Jeong Woo the Interpol agent
David Chiang as head of the assassin guild

Rating: 3/5
I had originally wanted to rate this show at 2 as it's not original in anyway but a ripoff off many Hongkong movies that cloned each other. But, as I'd mentioned, Jeon Ji Hyun is really very very sweet and pretty so giving in to this weakness, I revised my opinion of Daisy to 3/5