Life Is Beautiful (2022 film)

Life Is Beautiful is a 2022 South Korean musical, road film directed by Choi Kook-hee and starring Yum Jung-ah, Ryu Seung-ryong, Park Se-wan and Ong Seong-wu. It is a musical about Oh Se-yeon (Yum Jung-ah) who asks her husband to help her find her childhood sweetheart as her birthday gift. Both embark on journey to find him. The film had its premiere at 36th Fribourg International Film Festival on March 19, 2022, and was released in theaters on September 28 2022 in South Korea.

Synopsis
The film is a musical drama about a woman Oh Se Yeon (Yum Jung-ah), who makes a strange request to her husband as birthday gift. It is to find her first love from her school days. Her husband Kang Jin-bong (Ryu Seung-ryong) reluctantly joins her on this journey. The journey, full of life and music.

Cast

 * Yum Jung-ah as Oh Se-yeon
 * Park Se-wan as young Oh Se-yeon
 * Ryu Seung-ryong as Kang Jin-bong, husband of Oh Se-yeon
 * Ong Seong-wu as Jeong-woo
 * Yang Hee-kyung as Dong-tan, landlady
 * Park Yeong-gyu as Jin-bong's father
 * Shim Dal-gi as Hyeon-jeong, Se-yeon's childhood friend
 * Ha Hyun-sang as Seo Jin, son of Jin Bong and Se Yeon.
 * Kim Hye-ok as Jin-bong's mother
 * Ko Chang-seok
 * Yeom Hye-ran
 * Jeon Moo-song
 * Shin Shin-ae as Aunt Dong-tan
 * Kim Jong-soo
 * Kim Sun-young
 * Ryu Hyun-kyung
 * Kim Da-in as Ye-jin, A daughter full of rebellion.
 * Lee Won-hee as dancer
 * Yuk Sim-hwan as dancer
 * Kang Seung-wan

Production
The film is a road film in which two people wife and husband wander across the country in search of wife's first love, It has music that fits their stories from childhood to the present. It is the first jukebox musical in South Korea, containing familiar popular songs from the 1970s to 2000s. The filming began on October 14, 2019 and it was wrapped up on February 6, 2020.
 * Theme
 * Filming

Release
Life Is Beautiful had its premiere at 36th Fribourg International Film Festival on March 19, 2022.

The film was scheduled to be released in theaters in December 2020, but was postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic. It was released on September 28, 2022.