Mr. Sunshine - 2018 - 8/10
AKA - Miseuteo Syeonsyain // 미스터 션샤인
AKA - Miseuteo Syeonsyain // 미스터 션샤인
High stakes K-drama set primarily in the early 1900’s, a few years before the Sino-Russian War.
In the 1870’s, slave boy, Choi Yu-jin escapes a death sentence and goes to America.
Flash ahead a few decades, and Eugene Choi, Marine Captain, is assigned to the US legation in Korea.
The small nation is filled with would-be partners: the English, Russians, Americans, Japanese.
Seeking control.
Friendships and alliances ebb and surge, knives are drawn to carve up the country.
In the 1870’s, slave boy, Choi Yu-jin escapes a death sentence and goes to America.
Flash ahead a few decades, and Eugene Choi, Marine Captain, is assigned to the US legation in Korea.
The small nation is filled with would-be partners: the English, Russians, Americans, Japanese.
Seeking control.
Friendships and alliances ebb and surge, knives are drawn to carve up the country.
More than most K-dramas, the characters are nuanced and well developed.
Attention to detail is astounding. The series looks like a million bucks.
In line with historical events, the tone grows increasingly fatalistic and foreboding, and begins to deliver one emotional punch after another.
Attention to detail is astounding. The series looks like a million bucks.
In line with historical events, the tone grows increasingly fatalistic and foreboding, and begins to deliver one emotional punch after another.
Several romances (this is a K-drama!), in between a lot of “history.”
The personages and facts are as shifty as modern history.
There was a Righteous Army, there was a war between Russia and Japan.
And Koreans fought desperately to retain their sovereignty.
Yet the globe has a dire history of the small oppressed by the powerful.
The personages and facts are as shifty as modern history.
There was a Righteous Army, there was a war between Russia and Japan.
And Koreans fought desperately to retain their sovereignty.
Yet the globe has a dire history of the small oppressed by the powerful.
