Hye-young is a young woman who works as a sidewalk artist in Amsterdam. She keeps getting flowers delivered to her door every day, without ever knowing who sends them. Park-yi is a hitman, also working in Amsterdam, and has fallen for Hye-young, but just admires her from afar, and never shows himself to her. One day though, while Hye-young sits out in the street doing sketches of people, she meets Jeong-woo, an elite Interpol agent, whom she starts to fall for, and who of course gets in the way for Park-yi who has yet to reveal himself for her.
Directed by HK superstar Andrew Lau, Daisy is a nice little piece of film dealing with two men, both on different sides of the law, and both attracted to the same young girl. The location is Amsterdam, something that felt weird at first, but that just got better and better the further you watched. What I mean is that I wanted to see a Korean film, and when they mix Koreans with this European location, and western people in general, I wasn't sure if it would be any good. I mean, you watch Korean flicks because they're different from western flicks, but when started to watch Daisy, it felt more like some European drama with some Koreans in it. Luckily things didn't turn out that way, and Daisy felt like a geuine Korean (well, with a touch of HK) flick, that just uses Amsterdam as a location, and a great location it sure is. The scenery looks beautiful and fits the movie perfectly.
Daisy is a fairly simple movie, dealing with one girl, one cop and one hitman, were both of the two latter are attracted to the girl. The hitman though saw her long before the cop ever did, and keeps delivering flowers (can you guess what kind of flowers?) to her doorstep every day, shouts "flowers" and hides away before she can see him. Now this guy is such a sweetheart that he even built a bridge for the girl (without her knowing about it), when he saw her fall off another unstable bridge located close by. Now, maybe he should've thought about showing himself at one point or another, because unfortunately for him, a cop named Jeong-woo shows up one day and starts talking to the girl. And from then on, Jeong-woo keeps showing up and eventually the girl falls for the guy, leaving the hitman with a broken heart.
 
A lot of other things happen during the way, but I won't spoil anything for potential viewers. All I can say is that Daisy was kind of a nice flick, a little bit too cute at times, and a little bit too cliché, but that was still ok to watch. Since there's one cop and one hitman in the movie, plus some other criminals, we of course get to see some shoot-outs and so on, but if you're looking for an action movie, it's recommended to look elsewhere. The acting is really good; Playing Hye-young is Ji-hyun Jun (My Sassy Girl), while playing Park-yi is Woo-sung Jung (Musa the Warrior), and playing Jeong-woo is Sung-jae Lee (Holiday, Public Enemy, Attack the Gas Station!). So that all makes for a really good cast. Another good thing was the score which was just nice and very suiting. Nothing I would sit and listen to at home, but it worked wonders in the movie.
Daisy tells a pretty simple love triangle story, but that is easy to watch, and that has some good feeling to it as well. The scenery looks amazing, and you'll get to learn a few things about flowers on the way (well, not too much I guess). Not great, but makes for a pretty good, nice looking and well-acted drama.
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ALTERNATIVE TITLE: De-i-ji
MOVIE YEAR: 2006
DIRECTOR: Andrew Lau
WRITING CREDITS: Felix Chong
GENRE: Drama
CAST: Jeon Ji-hyeon, Jeong Woo-seong, Lee Seong-jae
COUNTRY: South Korea, Hong Kong
RUNTIME: 110 min
RATING: 6/10
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