The Sweetheart of Hours and Years

From Clumsy Media

"Six Hours of Five Years" is a romantic drama movie that is publicly advertised and known to be the movie version of the 2011 drama Scent of a Woman. Although the two stories are in no way related to one another, they're heavily focused on exploring emotions of the characters and trying to find the deeper meaning in life and happiness. This is the debut drama work from the team of writers T.O.M and inspired by the novel Time Traveler's Wife. It has said to be taken elements from both Scent of a Woman in terms of its tearing moments and 2011 drama Secret Garden for it's romance.

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Background Informaiton

  • Title: Six Hours of Five Years
  • Alternative Title:
  • Hangul: 오년에 육시간
  • Director: Park Hyung Ki
  • Writer: T.O.M
  • Network:
  • Episodes:
  • Release Date: TBA
  • Language: Korean
  • Country: South Korea

Plot

The story begins and retells when main character Yoon Soo Jin (Ya Chui Ri) is a first year senior high school student that struggles to balance her studies while training to become part of a future idol group. After a tiring day of training until midnight she walks to into a hidden alleyway and approaches to her favourite tea house. Since she is a frequent visitor she is friendly with the store owne whom she calls Papa Ryu (Kang Nam Kil). At there she meets another young man the same age as her, Yoo Keum Jo (Jeong Ui Cheol) and the two immediately had interest in one another due to their similarities. They stayed together in the teahouse until 5:31AM in the morning, talking and getting to know each other. Eventually Soo Jin who felt a strange but strong bond towards Keum Jo confessed her problems of training and studying to him.

Suddenly Keum Jo announces that he must leave and when Soo Jin asks if it's because of school and if so, they can go out together on the way, but he denies the suggestion and says they will meet again soon and hopes the next time they meet her problems will be solved. He leaves without another word. Soo Jin - who was still too surprised to respond immediately chases after him, only to be returned with no hope. Disappointed she returns to school soon after and received a scolding call on the way from her parents for not returning home that night and threatens if she does not have a proper reason they will call upon her company and pull her out of idol training. Sure of her day won't be getting any worse, upon her return to school she finds out her teacher has dropped her out of the high grade class for her sliding grades.

Hopeless and tired of life, she skips school for the day and returns to the teahouse asking Papa Ryu where Keum Jo is. Papa Ryu who treats Soo Jin as if his own daughter argues that she must pick her life back on track and says he will only tell her where Keum Jo is once he finds out she successfully debuts in a group and her marks are among the top once again. She finally agrees and after a year she eventually picks her grades up, eventually two years later she graduated with the top nation score and becomes a secured member on a idol group. However she has already forgotten about Keum Jo while she was fulfilling her promise and never asked Papa Ryu once again where the strange boy is.

Production

Development

Six Hours of Five Years began when student-at-the-time writer Tronnie Ombre Moiseyev had a dream about a girl who is only able to meet her boyfriend for one night in five years. Immediately, she shared the story with her close friend who backed then was known as Duscha Yusupov. Two years later upon completing her first year of film writing study in university in 2011, Moiseyev decided to start a team with Yusupov for this idea to be turned into a real project, despite the later was still in school and was only interested in writing but with no experiences. At this time, Yusupov was signed to international entertainment label Clumsy Media but was trained to be a singer and composer. They approached the film department through a inside reference and submitted their idea forward. In the beginning the idea was declined but newoy hired scrip writer Marker Mercie overheard and approached the pair to form a trio. They named themselves T.O.M after their name initials which stands for Three Original Messengers and over the time span of ten months, they recollected their ideas and wrote a script together.

Casting

Actress mode; Kei Nangon was originally considered for the lead female role but rejected due to attending over sea studies. The production compamy then considered Kim Byeol but was eventually dismissed when the director felt her image was too young and carefree. Writing team T.O.M stepped up and said they would like actress model Ya Chui Ri to try instead after recalling seeing her performance in the drama City Hunter to be suitable.

Filming

Post-prodution

Notes

  • Originally scheduled to be a drama, it has been changed to a movie due to plot changes.
  • Filming was planned to start pn December 28, 2011 in Incheon, Korea but was pushed back due to actress Ya Chui Ri's conflict in schedule over seas.
  • The movie was announced as delayed indefinitely until further notices on January 10, 2012.
  • Actress singer songwriter Geum Hae Ah reported to have dropped the role due to personal reasons October 22, 2012.
  • The name of the film was formally changed to The Sweetheart of Hours and Years, as announced on November 15, 2012.
  • Actress Ya Chui Ri was officially removed from her role and replaced by Jo Yeon Ah on April 7, 2013.

Cast

  • Kang Nam Kil - Papa Ryu

Critical Reception

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