Time Breaker is a love suspense film directed by Guo Jae-yung and starring Lin Xiujing, Cao Zhengyi and Lee Jin-wook, released in South Korea on April 13, 2016. The film tells the story of Ji Huan, a teacher in 1983, and Jianyu, a criminal police officer living in 2015, who join forces to save their loved ones through dreams.
Synopsis:
In 1983, high school teacher Ji Huan (Played by Cao Zhengyi) just successfully proposed marriage to his girlfriend Yoon Jung (Played by Lin Xiujing) when he was stabbed into a coma by a robber and admitted to the hospital, and on the same day and in the same ward on the same day in 2015, criminal police officer Jianyu (Played by Lee Jin-wook) was also hospitalized for being shot, and the two met each other in a dream for 30 years. After waking up, Jianyu checks that the deceased in an unsolved case 30 years ago turned out to be Ji Huan's girlfriend Yoon Jung, and what is even stranger is that in 2015, Jian Woo accidentally met a woman who looks exactly like Yoon Jung (Played by Lin Xiujing), and Jian Woo once again enters the dream to track down the cause of Yoon Jeong's death with Ji Hwan.
Character Introduction:
- Yoon Jeong actor Lin So-kyung
A woman living in 1983, kind and gentle, and a music teacher at the same school, Zhi Huan is a pair of very loving lovers, and when she is about to marry Ji Huan, she is immersed in happiness but faces a life and death crisis.
- Ji Hwan, actor Cao Zhengyi
A high school music teacher living in 1983, deeply in love with his girlfriend Yoon Jeong, he can give everything for his lover, just met a robber after successfully proposing to his girlfriend, Ji Huan was stabbed into a coma and hospitalized, and met Jian Yu living in 2015 in a dream.
- Jianyu Actor Lee Jin-wook
The criminal police living in 2015, with rapid judgment and reaction, calm and meticulous personality and strong tracking ability, are the men who exist in the present time, and the first to discover the past and present time out of the secret.
- Su Eun actor Lin Xiujing
The woman who lives in 2015, although she has the exact same appearance as Yoon Jeong, has a completely different personality, and Su Eun is a cheerful and lively girl who appears in JianYu's dream, which makes Jianyu's investigation of the incident into chaos.
- Captain Jiang, actor Jung Jin-young
The captain of the criminal police team, who has just been transferred to the criminal police team to which Jianyu belongs, has been secretly tracking down the suspects of a certain case because of the unfortunate events in the past, and the truth he is pursuing is closely related to the secret of Jianyu's "time separation".
- Teacher Park, Actor Moon Joo-wan
A high school teacher and Ji Huan's colleague, he has a cheerful and optimistic personality, and although he is half suspicious of Ji Huan's dreams, his life has changed a lot because of Zhi Huan's words.
Film Reviews:
In South Korea, Guo Jae-yong can be said to be the benchmark of romance films, and his guidance of "My Savage Girlfriend", "If Love Has Providence" and "My Robot Girlfriend" are all rare classics. In this film, Guo Zairong made a new attempt, combining suspense and dreams, using a two-line parallel narrative technique, but the two protagonists at different time nodes formed an intersection in parallel time and space through the way of dreams, and thus produced a butterfly effect, after several "corrections", all the people who died in vain gained new vitality, and the hero and heroine also ushered in a fairytale-like ending - all the strange images, and finally fixed on the past life and this life of love.
Time Breaker has a user rating of 8.1 on the South Korean portal NAVER. Many netizens said that they were attracted by Cao Zhengyi's acting skills, and the theme of time travel was also attractive enough, and some media analysis pointed out that the film was influenced by the suspense drama "Signal" to some extent, and the same time travel theme will make many viewers feel intimate.
According to the box office statistics of the Korea Film Promotion Council, the film was released on 733 screens in the first weekend (April 5, 2016 - April 17, 2016), with 336,000 weekend viewers and a cumulative audience of 54.7, with a weekend box office of 2.82 billion won and a cumulative box office of 4.53 billion won.