My New Sassy Girl

My New Sassy Girl
Chinese poster
Directed by Joh Keun-shik
Starring Cha Tae-hyun
Victoria Song
Production
company
ShinCine Communications
Beijing Sky Wheel Media
Distributed by Little Big Pictures (South Korea)
Release date
  • April 22, 2016 (2016-04-22) (China)
  • May 5, 2016 (2016-05-05) (South Korea)
Country South Korea
China
Language Korean
Mandarin
Budget CN¥32 million
Box office CN¥34.2 million[1]

My New Sassy Girl (Hangul: 엽기적인 그녀 2; RR: Yeopgijeogin Geunyeo 2) (Chinese: 我的新野蛮女友) is a 2016 South Korean-Chinese romantic comedy film directed by Joh Keun-shik, and starring Cha Tae-hyun and Victoria Song.[2][3] This film, a sequel to My Sassy Girl (2001), was released in China on April 22, 2016[1] and released in South Korea on May 12, 2016.[4][5][6]

Plot

Gyun-woo (Cha Tae-hyun) is having difficulty forgetting The Girl (Jun Ji-hyun) of My Sassy Girl (2001). He then reunites with his childhood sweetheart Sassy (Victoria Song), an elementary school classmate from China who was often teased because of her broken Korean. They manage to get married despite an initial opposition from Gyun-woo's mother (Song Ok-suk). Unbeknownst to Gyun-woo, his wife send in his job application to a telecommunication company in China. Somehow he and another fellow Korean, Yong-sub (Bae Seong-woo), are recruited by the company and are assigned to Team Oxford, which they later found out is meant for recruits selected by the company Chairman's bull dog named Oxford. Sometime later Team Oxford is disbanded, his Korean colleague is fired and Gyun-woo is assigned to do degrading tasks for the company's Executive Director Kim (Choi Jin-ho). While trying to keep his wife happy, he does not let her know his employment status. But when his wife comes to know about it, she confronts the Executive Director at his home during a party, and things go out of hand as she kicks him into the swimming pool. As a result of the turn of events, Gyun-woo has to leave the company and his relationship with his wife is strained, forcing them to separate. As he is about to leave the company with his things, a female colleague whom he befriended, Yuko (Mina Fujii), tells him how his wife defended him in front of the Executive Director. After going home to find his wife not there and recalling the happy times they had together, he decides to go and find her. His tough journey through mountain trails in China is finally rewarded when he finds her on the plains with her grandfather and other villagers herding livestock on horseback. The movie ends with both of them reconciling and later having children of their own.

Cast

Production

Budgeted at CN¥32 million, the film began principal photography on September 29, 2014.[5][7]

Boxoffice

Country Released Date Boxoffice
China 2016-4-22 USD $5.3 million[8]
Korea 2016-5-12 USD $0.6 million [9]
Singapore 2016-5-12 TBA
Malaysia 2016-5-19 TBA
Vietnam 2016-5-27 USD 5.5 million
Philippines 2016-6-1 USD $9.2 million

References

  1. 1 2 "我的新野蛮女友（2016）". cbooo.cn (in Chinese). Retrieved July 26, 2016.
  2. ↑ Ma, Kevin (September 24, 2014). "Cho Keun-shik to direct My Sassy Girl sequel". Film Business Asia. Retrieved February 15, 2015.
  3. ↑ "我的新野蛮女友 엽기적인 두번째 그녀 (2015)". Movie Douban (in Chinese). Retrieved November 20, 2014.
  4. ↑ "My New Sassy Girl (Movie - 2015)". HanCinema. Retrieved April 2, 2016.
  5. 1 2 Kim, Nemo (September 23, 2014). "Sequel to My Sassy Girl Set as China-Korea Co-Production". Variety. Retrieved November 20, 2014.
  6. ↑ Ji, Yong-jin (November 24, 2014). "Current Trends in Korean-Chinese Joint Projects". Korean Cinema Today. Retrieved February 16, 2015.
  7. ↑ "My Sassy Girl 2 begins filming and releases first movie stills". Koreaboo. Retrieved November 20, 2014.
  8. ↑ "Weekly box office > My New Sassy Girl Boxoffice". entgroup.cn. Retrieved 2016-06-07.
  9. ↑ "Weekly box office > My New Sassy Girl Boxoffice". kobis.or.kr. Retrieved 2016-06-07.
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