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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