Connections To My Sassy Girl
Windstruck shares the same leading actress and director as an earlier popular South Korean film, My Sassy Girl. As a result, Windstruck contains several subtle references to the previous film. For example, a photo of Jun Ji-hyun from My Sassy Girl is visible on Kyung-jin's piano (while playing the piano). Plus the final scene of Windstruck, in which Kyung-jin meets her new soul mate (played by Cha Tae-hyun, the male lead from My Sassy Girl) on a train platform, is similar to the beginning of My Sassy Girl and her character from My Sassy Girl is distraught over the death of her true love.
Also, when Kyung-jin is chasing Sin Chang-su she tells a random citizen to act as a steppingstone to climb over the wall just like when she accidentally steps on a runaway soldier (played by the same actor) when she and Tae-hyun visited the amusement park during her birthday.
Jun Ji-hyun plays the piano in both movies.
In My Sassy Girl she say that she had a boyfriend that died before meeting Cha Tae-hyun and in Windstruck her boyfriend (Myung-woo) died due to hunting Sin Chang-su and in My Sassy Girl the reason why he died was never told.
However, "Windstruck" is not a full 'prequel' to "My Sassy Girl" in the literal sense of the term.
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