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SEOUL, Sep. 01 (Yonhap) -- Actress Kim You-jung has been cast as the lead role, dubbed Bora, for an upcoming Netflix film “20th Century Girl” (translated).
The OTT platform has made final decision to produce the film and has confirmed casting Kim You-jung, Byeon Woo-seok, Park Jung-woo, Roh Yoon-seo, according to an official of Netflix Wednesday.
The time of the film is 1999, the last year of the 20th century. It is a romance genre about Bora, a 17-year-old girl whose priority was friendship than love, going through a painful but heart-stirring first love. She later hears news of her painful first love later in the 21st century.
Kim will play as Bora who sticks to her friendship no matter what but goes through troubles between friendship and first love which she did not see its coming.
Byeon will take dubbed Pung woon-ho, Bora’s colleague in the broadcast club and Park will be dubbed Baek Hyun-jin, Woon-ho’s best friend and Bora’s best friend dubbed Yeondu’s crush. Rookie actress Roh will play as Yeondu.
It is a full-length film written and produced by director Bang Woo-ri who was awarded with Blue Dragon Film Award for Best Short Film with “Mrs. Young,” her short film of a woman who meets her son who looks so alike with her first love.
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