
Past Lives(2023)
After decades apart, childhood friends Nora and Hae Sung are reunited in New York for one fateful weekend as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life.


“Love is a universe all of its own”
Two young New Yorkers begin to fall in love over the course of a single day, as a series of potentially life-altering meetings loom over their heads - hers concerning her family’s deportation to Jamaica, and his concerning an education at Dartmouth.

Yara Shahidi
Natasha Kingsley

Charles Melton
Daniel Jae Ho Bae

Hill Harper
Lester Barnes

Gbenga Akinnagbe
Samuel Kingsley

Jake Choi
Charlie Bae

John Leguizamo
Jeremy Martinez

Anais Lee
Young Natasha

Miriam A. Hyman
Patricia Kingsley

Jordan Williams
Peter Kingsley

Keong Sim
Dae Hyun Bae
The Sun Is Also a Star is a romance, drama film released in 2019 exploring themes of new york city, deportation, love, korean american, based on young adult novel, korean. Directed by Ry Russo-Young, it stars Yara Shahidi, Charles Melton, Hill Harper. Two young New Yorkers begin to fall in love over the course of a single day, as a series of potentially life-altering meetings loom over their heads - hers concerning her family’s deportation to Jamaica, and his concerning an education at Dartmouth.
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