A rain-washed, melancholic romantic thriller in which flowers carry both tenderness and menace, and three strangers drift toward one another through the canals and tulip fields of Amsterdam like figures in a half-finished painting.
Daisy
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"A cop. A criminal. A flower."
09 March 2006
Hong Kong
110 min
7.1
(107)
Director: Andrew Lau Wai-Keung
Cast: Gianna Jun, Jung Woo-sung, Lee Sung-jae, Cheon Ho-jin, David Chiang Da-Wei
Drama
Action
Romance
Unspoken and hidden love
Mistaken identity and misplaced love
Violence versus tenderness
Fate, timing and coincidence
Art, seeing and being seen
Daisy — Characters & Cast
Character Analysis
Hye-young
Jun Ji-hyun (Gianna Jun)
Archetype: The muse / innocent
Key Trait: Gentle, artistic and quietly yearning
Motivation
To find the person who sends her daisies and to complete her art.
Character Arc
She moves from hopeful waiting for an unknown admirer to love with the wrong man, and then to loss. Critics noted this as a more serious departure from her usual cute roles.
Park Yi
Jung Woo-sung
Archetype: The tragic hitman
Key Trait: Shy, cool and secretly tender
Motivation
To love and protect Hye-young while keeping her safe from his world.
Character Arc
He is a killer who falls in love at first sight and shadows her protectively. He chooses silence over revealing himself, and that choice drives the tragedy.
Jeong Woo
Lee Sung-jae
Archetype: The decent rival
Key Trait: Dutiful and conflicted
Motivation
To catch the criminal while protecting the woman he has come to love.
Character Arc
He starts as an Interpol detective on a case and falls for Hye-young. He is torn between honesty and the comfort of being mistaken for her admirer.
Cast
Gianna Jun
as Hye-young
Jung Woo-sung
as Park Yi
Lee Sung-jae
as Jeong Woo
Cheon Ho-jin
as Detective Jang
David Chiang Da-Wei
as Cho
Dion Lam
as Yun Joon-ha
Man-Lung Tang
as Henchmen
Sara Bernardo Aires
as Prostitute
Yoo Soon-chul
as Old man
Niels Megens
as Tulip Man
Ron Schuitema
as Bodyguard
Ingeborg Mast
as Painter
Jeroen Biegstraaten
as Bodyguard
Monique Sluyter
as Hotel
Boudewijn Visser
as Police
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