Everyone, the most heart-wrenching Korean drama of 2025 has premiered. With Namkoong Min and Jeon Yeo-been as the leads, I cried through three packs of tissues after just the first two episodes. This isn’t just a drama—it’s an emotional gut punch.
A washed-up director and a terminally ill actress in a devastating BE (bad ending) setup:
The male lead, Lee Jae-ha (played by Namkoong Min), hasn’t made a film in five years and is on the verge of bankruptcy.
The female lead, Lee Do-eun (played by Jeon Yeo-been), has been diagnosed with a rare disease and has only six months left to live.
When they meet, she says: “Director, use my real medical history as your script.”
To play a patient with ALS, Jeon Yeo-been lived in a care facility for three months. Namkoong Min said during a scene where he carried her while crying, he couldn’t tell whether her pain was acting or real. The director insisted on using expired film stock, saying, “Because their time is just as precious.”
“Our Movie” is directed by Lee Jung Heum (Falsify, Nobody Knows, Inspector Koo) and written by Han Ga-eun and Kang Kyung-min.
This SBS drama, starring Namkoong Min and Jeon Yeo-been, uses a meeting born “in the face of death” to tear open the deepest wounds of modern people: How should we face inevitable loss?
After the first two episodes aired, viewers said:
“Even though it’s obviously going to be a sad ending, it made me cry while also feeling the warmth of being alive.”
Plot summary: When a failed director meets a woman with an expiration date.
Lee Jae-ha (Namkoong Min) was once hailed as a genius director but collapsed after his second film flopped. Five years later, he stakes everything on making a film about the final monologue of a terminal patient, only to be rejected by all investors due to the dark subject matter.
Then, at a hospital, he meets Lee Do-eun (Jeon Yeo-been)—a struggling actress diagnosed with a rare disease and told she has only six months to live.