Shin Ha-kyun visits his resurrected wife in sci-fi drama Yonder
by Jenzy
As the first collaborative effort put out by the two streaming platforms — TVING and Paramount+ — upcoming dystopian sci-fi project Yonder was already setting high expectations. To that, add cinema-darling director Lee Joon-ik (The Book of Fish) first’s foray into dramas, and talented actors Shin Ha-kyun (Unicorn) and Han Ji-min (Our Blues), and you have a buzzy potential hit on your hands.
Yonder is set in the near future where the memories of the dead can be uploaded to a place called Yonder, and they can continue to live and be visited by their loved ones. Our lead Shin Ha-kyun plays a widower Jae-hyun who is wrecked over the death of his wife Yi-hu — played by Han Ji-min — until one day he receives a message from her telling him to come to Yonder, where she is.
We see this concept play out more in the teaser that just dropped. In the first scenes, we’re shown a happier moment between Jae-hyun and Yi-hu, laughing at a beach. This is contrasted with Jae-hyun’s distressed face as the voiceover of a doctor tells us Yi-hu’s time of death. He’s alone in his somber apartment until a video message of his wife pops up on his TV, where she tells him, “I’m here. Come here if you want to see me.”
In the last scenes, Jae-hyun drives up a mountain while title cards tell us it’s “the last place where you can see your loved ones.” Once he makes it to the mystical forest Yonder, Yi-hu serenely greets him: “You made it.”
This promises to be an introspective and bittersweet look at death, life, and the grieving process through the genre of sci-fi that I imagine fans of Arrival or After Yang would love. This wouldn’t be my first time crying at a Han Ji-min project either (still recovering from The Light in Your Eyes), so I’m going to be watching this with tissues ready.
Written by Kim Jung-Hun, Oh Seung-Hyun, and Kim Sung-Cheol, Yonder will air this October on TVING.
Via Variety, Star Today, KStar
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1 Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️
September 3, 2022 at 10:49 PM
Interesting concept I wonder if it’s like a hologram and if you are creating new memories what it’s like to leave them behind all alone while you return to the real world. Is it a place that only you can go to or will you take the whole family and will there be other people wondering around the world visiting their loved ones? What if you want a warm beach or luxury resort not camping in a lonely wood? Who is going to be running the place and how much will it cost. Who gets to be there did his wife sign up for it or is it something that was done without their permission.
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Peridot
September 4, 2022 at 6:54 AM
Good questions. This looks interesting.
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Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️
September 4, 2022 at 7:32 AM
Yes really is intriguing because it would be easy to become addicted to being in that world with them rather than the real world without them. You are likely to prefer to be there because it will always be the honeymoon state.
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Peridot
September 4, 2022 at 1:53 PM
Yes, I agree. It would be too easy to turn away from reality. A very profitable business for the creators of Yonder.
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2 Diana Hansen
September 4, 2022 at 9:56 AM
i am up for this because of the theme and the actors. the theme hopefully will raise questions about this topic such as the ones @reply1988 stated as well as viewers looking at it from their own situations and perspectives. (hopefully)
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3 Lixie
September 5, 2022 at 6:36 AM
Isn't she too young and pretty to play his wife? If genders were reversed maybe people would get that.
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panshel
September 5, 2022 at 2:52 PM
How old do you think Han Ji-min is? She's the same age as Lee Min-jung whom Shin Ha-kyun was paired with in All About My Romance. At least she's seven years older than his last romantic interest Jung So-min in Soul Mechanic.
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Lixie
September 5, 2022 at 6:36 PM
I thought she was around 29 but she's 39, she's probably from the vampire line of Jang Nara. I don't get why this guy gets romantic FLs that don't match him. People make fun of women who go there expecting to find a Lee Min Ho on every street, because THAT's not most korean men, but nobody says anything abut these weird matches.
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4 Live4dmoment
September 6, 2022 at 2:11 AM
Every actress would want to work with SHK as he is a great actor. Looking forward to LJI's first venture into dramas and with SHK and HJM. I will prepare my tissues ready too
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