Birthday Letter(2019)

Birthday Letter is a drama that traces the arc of a lifetime through memory and loss. In colonial-era Korea, childhood friends Moo Gil and Il Ae are torn apart when forced to leave their hometown of Hapcheon for Hiroshima, Japan, where they're separated. Decades later, in 2019, an aging Moo Gil receives a birthday letter from Il Ae—his first love—and is transported back to the war-torn landscape of 1945 Hiroshima. The letter becomes a portal to their shared past, forcing him to confront the choices that divided them and the weight of time itself. Birthday Letter weaves together intimate personal history with the broader tragedy of displacement and wartime, exploring how love endures across decades and borders, even when circumstances conspire to keep people apart.