TV series
Birthday Letter
2019 · 1 season
A tender, sorrowful romance that moves between past trauma and present longing, asking quiet patience as it unfolds.
- Created by
- Kim Jung-kyu
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Jo Soo-min, Kim Kyung-nam, Song Geon-hee
- Overview
- A drama about an old man who is lost in the memories of 1945 Hiroshima after getting an unforgettable birthday letter from his first love. During the Japanese colonial rule era, Moo Gil and Il Ae are childhood friends and each other's first love. Against their wills, both Moo Gil and Il Ae have to leave Hapcheon, South Korea, and go to Hiroshima, Japan. They are separated from each other there. Then in 2019 in South Korea, Moo Gil receives a birthday letter from his first love Il Ae.
- How it feels
- Melancholic, romantic, earnest and dark. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
- About
- Love, memory, grief, war
- Content
- Mild violence and gore. No sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Created by
- Kim Jung-kyu
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Jo Soo-min, Kim Kyung-nam, Song Geon-hee
