''Tree of Heaven'' () is a 2006 South Korean-Japanese series starring

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and

Park Shin-hye Park Shin-hye (, born February 18, 1990) is a South Korean actress and singer. She gained recognition as a child on TV shows such as ''Stairway to Heaven'' (2003), and ''Tree of Heaven'' (2006). Later on, she would achieve further success when ...

. It aired on SBS from February 8 to March 9, 2006 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 10 episodes. The drama is also the final entry in director Lee Jang-soo's ''Heaven Trilogy'' which included '' Beautiful Days'' in 2001 and ''

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'' in 2003. Also known as , the series was filmed completely in Japan and featured a cast of both Korean and Japanese actors.

Synopsis

Bright and optimistic Korean Japanese teenager Hana (

) lives at a small

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inn owned by her mother. When her mother decides to marry a Korean man, she tries her best to reach out to her odd, introverted stepbrother-to-be Yoon Seo (

), who likes to walk barefoot in the snow. He rebuffs her initial efforts, but her cheer eventually wins him over. With their parents on honeymoon, together Hana and Yoon Seo stand up to Hana's spiteful aunt Yoko (Kim Chung) and cousin Maya (Asami Reina), and the two develop an increasingly close relationship over time. Yoon Seo is forward in his love for Hana, but despite feeling the same way, she is unwilling to break the taboo of a romance between step-siblings. After graduating from high school, she leaves for Tokyo with her admirer Fujiwara Ryu (

Asahi Uchida (born 30 May 1982) is a Japanese actor. He will have a central role in '' Tokugawa Fūun-roku'', scheduled for broadcast on January 2, 2008. Selected filmography : 2006 ''Tree of Heaven'' : 2006 '' Atagoal wa neko no mori'' : 2006 '' Tenshi'' ...

), and loses contact with Yoon Seo. 2 years later, Hana, Yoon Seo, and Maya meet again. Time has led them down very different roads, but the love and the rivalry remain the same.at the end both meet up during hana's marriage but unfortunately they both got hit by an accident, in which hana needed a heart transplant which was done by Yoon Seo . Later when she found out that Yoon Seo was no longer alive and listened to his message to live well so that they can reunite in heaven where there would be no separation. The tree of heaven still there to protect hana.

Cast

as Yoon Seo *

as Hana *

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as Maya *

as Fujiwara Ryu * Jung Dong-hwan as Yoon Soo-ha, Yoon Seo's father *Kim Chung as Yoko, Maya's mother *Aika Mire as Michiko, Hana's mother *Takasugi Ko as Iwa, Yoon Seo's driver/bodyguard * Lee Jung-gil as Boss *

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as Mika, Hana's friend *Kobayashi Kinako

International broadcast

In Japan, an

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version of the series dubbed in Japanese aired on terrestrial network Fuji TV on late-night Thursdays beginning April 13, 2006, and on Fuji TV's satellite channel BS Fuji on Thursdays at 9:00 p.m. beginning April 6, 2006. The original version (with Korean audio and Japanese

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) aired on Fuji TV's cable channel CS Fuji in July 2006. It aired in Thailand on

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beginning July 25, 2012, under the title "สุดปลายฟ้าสัญญารักนิรันดร์" (read as "Sud Plai Fha Sunya Rak Nirandon", literally: Eternal Love at Horizon).

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* * * {{Works by Logos Film 2006 South Korean television series debuts 2006 South Korean television series endings Seoul Broadcasting System television dramas South Korean romance television series South Korean melodrama television series Television series by Logos Film