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Windstruck (내 여자 친구를 소개합니다)

Windstruck (내 여자친구를 소개합니다; revised romanization Nae yeojachingureul sogae habnida) is a 2004 South Korean romantic drama directed and written by Kwak Jae-yong, starring Jun Ji-hyun (also billed internationally as Gianna Jun) as police officer Yeo Kyung-jin and Jang Hyuk as physics teacher Ko Myung-woo.¹ It reunites the director and star of My Sassy Girl (2001) and is often discussed as a companion piece to that film, though it tells a separate story that shifts from romantic comedy into tragedy.²

Key fact	Detail
Director and writer	Kwak Jae-yong (곽재용), who also wrote the screenplay; story credit to Jeong Hoon-tak¹^•³
Stars	Jun Ji-hyun as Yeo Kyung-jin; Jang Hyuk as Ko Myung-woo¹
South Korean release	June 3, 2004; rated 15 and over⁴^•¹
Day-and-date release	Opened simultaneously in South Korea, China, and Hong Kong on June 3, 2004, a first for a South Korean film⁵
Admissions	2,199,359 nationwide (Korean Film Council), the 8th best-selling Korean film released in 2004⁶
Production and distribution	Produced by iFilm Co. Ltd. with Hong Kong financing; distributed by CJ Entertainment; international sales by Edko Films¹^•⁷
Music	Score by Choi Seung-hyun; theme song "Tears" by Yoshiki, performed by X Japan³^•⁸

Spoilers

Plot

Kyung-jin, an ambitious officer on the Seoul police force, chases a purse snatcher while off duty and arrests the wrong man: Myung-woo, a timid high school physics teacher who was himself trying to catch the thief.²^•⁸ After the hostile first encounter, the two are paired to patrol a district popular with underage students, and love grows between them.⁹ In one comic sequence, handcuffed to Myung-woo, Kyung-jin interrupts a meeting between Russian mafia figures and Korean gangsters and takes on both groups.⁸

The film changes direction at its midpoint. Myung-woo is fatally stabbed by a serial killer after rushing to help Kyung-jin during a pursuit.² The remainder of the story follows Kyung-jin's flashbacks to their time together and her reunions with Myung-woo's ghost; throwing herself into perilous situations after his death, she feels a strange but familiar presence in the wind helping her out of danger.²^•¹ The tagline used in English-language marketing, "If only I can feel you... even as the wind," reflects this premise.¹⁰

Production and release

The film was produced by iFilm Co. Ltd., with Jeong Hoon-tak, Bill Kong, Teddy Jung, and Choi Su-young among the producers and Philip Lee as executive producer.¹^•⁴ Hong Kong's Edko Film covered the entire production budget of US$3.5 million, and the film held its world premiere in Hong Kong.¹¹ That premiere took place on May 28, 2004, with Jang Hyuk and Jun Ji-hyun attending, making Windstruck the first Korean film to hold its premiere in Hong Kong.⁸ On June 3 it opened simultaneously in South Korea, China, and Hong Kong, which TIME reported as a first for a South Korean film.⁵

Music. Choi Seung-hyun composed the score.³ The theme song "Tears," composed by Yoshiki and performed by X Japan, has been described as the first Japanese song featured in a Korean film after World War II.⁸

Box office

According to Korean Film Council figures compiled for 2004, Windstruck sold 2,199,359 tickets nationwide (659,380 in Seoul) and ranked 8th among Korean films released that year, behind titles including Taegukgi, My Little Bride, and A Moment to Remember.⁶ The KOFIC film database separately lists 1,298,666 total admissions on 185 screens and a gross of US$6,198,349.¹ International trackers put worldwide gross at about US$25 million.⁸

Reception and relation to My Sassy Girl

Contemporary Korean reviews were mixed. The Korea JoongAng Daily called the film slipshod while crediting Jun Ji-hyun's star power, noting that it was produced for her fans and that director Kwak's My Sassy Girl had made her an Asian superstar.² The Taipei Times quoted a Korean Times critic describing the film as music videos and commercials strung together on a paper-thin plot, while observing that its leads recall the famous pair from Sassy Girl, a bit older and out of college.¹² Later genre writing has treated the film's turn from romantic comedy into full melodrama as more powerful, if more melodramatic, than My Sassy Girl.¹³

Because it shares its director, writer, and star with My Sassy Girl, viewers frequently describe Windstruck as an unofficial prequel or spinoff of the 2001 film; AsianWiki lists the two as related titles, and the connection is a recurring point in audience discussion, though the films follow different characters and stories.⁹ An academic survey of 2000s Korean romance cinema cites the film as an early example of genre hybridization in the period's Korean romance output.¹⁴

Versions and runtime

Reported runtimes differ by source: the American Film Institute lists 123 minutes, the KOFIC database 118 minutes, Cine21 120 minutes, and HanCinema and the Florence Korea Film Fest 108 minutes.⁴^•¹^•¹⁵^•¹⁶^•⁷ The film was released in Japan on December 11, 2004 under the title Boku no Kanojo o Shoukai Shimasu (僕の彼女を紹介します).¹⁷

References

Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Films and standalone screen works › Individual films by title and year › Comedy and romantic films (individual works) › Comedies of 2003 to 2004 › Titles M to Y

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 3, 2026; Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 3, 2026; Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026

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