Lee Byung Hun, widows, and romantic angst. What more can a girl want? Well, subtitles, perhaps

[dangermousie]

Oh great, this is going to end well.

I am now simply obsessed with watching Beautiful My Lady, a 1997 angsty romantic drama starring Lee Byung Hun and Shim Eun Ha. I hold this MV fully responsible:

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Even though it's a classic kdrama, so I know very well how it will end and I object in principle to Lee Byung Hun dying on my screen. Even though I

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[walkwithheroes]

I almost watched this a month ago, but couldn't because of no subtitles. :( It looks so good and melodramatic, though.

[dangermousie]

I want to watch this so very badly - how can a LBH drama not have subs? *frustrated*

[walkwithheroes]

I know I was really surprised when I saw there were no subtitles for this one. But, looking at his dramawiki page, LBH has several dramas from the early/mid-90s that aren't subbed. Most of them cannot even be found online.

Out of all his dramas - he's done twenty-three - only four or five have English subtitles.

- Happy Together (1999) had several "names" from early in their careers. Song Seung Hun, Jo Min Soo, and Kang Sung Yun play LBH's stepsiblings. Jun Ji Hyun plays their younger half-sister. Plus, Kim Ha Neul is the elementary school teacher who finds herself in a love triangle with LBH and SSH's characters. Han Go-eun pops up as the 'other woman' to SSH's character. And, Cha Tae Hyun is a low-level gangster whose in love with Jun Ji Hyun. Basically, the whole cast is a 'whose who' of big names or character actors. Check it out if you haven't.

- Beautiful Days, ALL IN, and IRIS are also subbed. Other than that. . .I've come across nothing.

For films: He was in HERO, the film based on the Japanese television series. A

[dangermousie]

Happy Together is at the top of my netflix queue.

I also have Addicted. Must watch soon.

I guess most of his dramas are from 1990s and those are haaaaard to find subbed. (Though YA seems to be putting out some older dramas now and then so that small number may increase). The other 1990s drama I wanted to check out recently, Love Is In Your Embrace (or its various title alliterations) is not even in drama wiki and it was huge in 1994. It kinda sucks. I think prior to 2000 pickings are really slim. I mean, I was even having a horrible time finding Eyes of Dawn and it's a super famous one (got my hands on it at last, all the way from Australia).

Grrrrr.

beautiful my lady (bml)

[ukcha_itatel]

hi dangermousie,

i came across your lj via clairiere... saw that you watched and wrote about bml... therefore a question :) i happen to be one of the admins at everythinglbh.com.... would it be ok if we linked to your posts about bml? we have so little material about those old dramas... so the opinion of every person who watched it counts :)

thanks in advance for your help,

admin2 at everythinglbh.com

Re: beautiful my lady (bml)

[dangermousie]

Of course it will be fine!

I loved what I saw of it, even without subs!

Re: beautiful my lady (bml)

[ukcha_itatel]

thanks!

i also watched part of it without subs, will watch the rest eventually... he looked such a cute puppy when he was young :)

and the frustrating part about the subtitles is.. that they do exist. i saw screencaps with english subtitles, and i even saw a subtitled dvd set at yesasia a while ago.. but the price was absolutely insane - something like usd 250... i love the man, but not to such extent :D

Re: beautiful my lady (bml)

[ukcha_itatel]

and here is the link to the entry:

http://everythinglbh.com/entry_view.php?id=1458

i quoted part of your post - hope it's ok with you!