A Millionaire's First Love (2006)

This is not the first time that I have come across a story in which a guy and a girl fall in love and the girl has some kind of disease. 'A Millionaire's First Love' has traits of a typical tragedy- the leads- one is rich and spoilt and takes things for granted, the other is poor and lives, coping with the severe hardships of life. At one glance this movie is a cliché. Once you read the synopsis somewhere, the movie will start playing before you and you can easily predict the ending. The same applies to me. However, since I am a fan of tragedies and like to torture my eyes by bawling them out, I watched it. This was one reason. Another reason was the movie's popularity. I have heard a lot in its praise.



I liked the cast. The two leads did brilliant acting, especially Hyun Bin as Kang Jae Jyung. Lee Yeon Hee as Choi Eun Whan was perfect. This was my first time seeing her on screen and I was impressed. 'The Snow Queen' is a Korean drama with a similar story starring Hyun Bin but his character in it is completely the opposite of what it is in this movie. The music is pretty good and it fit into the scenes well. The only thing that bugged me was that the male lead realized his feelings for the female lead too quick. There was hardly any interaction between the two and the next moment, they were in love! It felt as if the director just wanted to make the two fall in love but didn't give a thought to show HOW. So yeah, it was kind of a turn-off from the point of a romantic stuff watcher. But the positive side is that the two leads were successful in touching my heart. I could relate myself to them and feel sympathy. At the end, I couldn't help but cry. As I said earlier, the ending is pretty predictable once you read the synopsis or watch the first half of the movie but still I couldn't help but feel the pain as if it was not how expected it to end.



As for the rewatch value, I don't think I'll watch it again for now but perhaps after a long time when I would feel like watching something sad.



To sum everything up, I would say that this movie is for you if you like tragic love stories (and if you are another Hyun Bin fan!)

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I was utterly unprepared for what this movie turned out to be. Somehow I completely missed the words melodrama and tragedy in the description. I was just quickly browsing for a movie to watch while I updated some things on my blog and the description sounded adorable. Snarky and entitled chaebol discovers himself in a tiny little town and falls in love. It turned out to be so much more than that. I avoid anything sad and heartbreaking like the plague, I’m a happy ending girl all the way. But it was too late when I realized the sadness I had signed myself up for. By that time I was utterly invested in the story and couldn’t turn away. Now here I am a blubbering mess of tears, a think that I do my best to avoid when picking out dramas and movies. Despite all of that I loved this movie. The story was phenomenal, the acting was good, and the love was beautiful. If you are up for a good cry I definitely recommend this one.

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It will make you cry...

This movie was released in 2006 so I was expecting some cliché scenes. The plot is a bit typical of the romantce movies produced at the time. But I liked it.

This movie was really good. There were some funny scenes, but it's definitely a tearjerker too. It made me feel so much emotions and cry a lot.

I liked the friendship between classmates. They were so kind and funny.

Actors did a really good job. It was so easy to feel their emotions.

My favourite scene is the one when Eun Hwan and Jae Kyung were blowing the dandelions out. In some ways, it was really comforting. Of course, it was also sad because of Eun Hwan's wish.

I recommend watching it when you want to cry your eyes out.

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First korean movie I watched and it all started because of the OST. I knew Jaejoong (my favourite DBSK member, and the first korean celebrity I got to know) sang 'Insa' and I saw it was the OST for this movie so I went and watched it.

Even though the cast is very good (for God's sake it's Hyun Bin and how much better can it get?) I didn't liked the plot very much and thought of it as a bit cliché.
As I watched the movie I felt it could be a drama and not a movie since I always had the feeling they were rushing the story to get to the end (all this hurry killed the movie for me).

Jaejoong's and DBSK's singing was the best though.

I know my opinion might not be very popular since everyone seems to love this movie, and the love story in it but it was what I felt back then (it's been 6 years since I watched it).

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I will leave this review as a warning for anyone who wants to watch this movie... I lost count of how many times I had to pause the movie because of how hard I was crying, in fact, it was so bad that the Face ID on my phone didn't even work... I probably cried for more than half of it and it's been about 20 or 30 minutes since the movie ended and I've been starring at the wall and crying until now.

The plot is a pretty typical one, I've seen it quite a few times but still, this movie got me in a way that I was NOT expecting. It's the first time I'm seeing something with the FL and I quite enjoyed her acting, and the ML, Hyun Bin, was amazing like he always is!

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