If the Sun Rises in the West [SEP] country of origin
- Cha Seung-won ... Ji-min
- Nam Hyeon-ju
- Myung Gye-nam
- Kang Chung-sik
- Park Yong-soo
- Yu Hyeong-gwan
- Lee Du-il
- Choi Yong-min
- Lee Beom-soo
Release.
"If the Sun Rises in the West" opened in South Korea on 19 December 1998, and received a total of 145,752 admission in Seoul.
Critical response.
Andrew Saroch of "Far
Emperor of China starting with the words: "The Emperor of the land where the sun rises sends a letter to the Emperor of the land where the sun sets to ask if you are healthy" (日出處天子致書日沒處天子無恙云云). This is commonly believed as the origin of the name Nihon (source of the sun), although the actual characters for Nihon (日本) were not used.
Not long after this, however, Japan remodeled its entire state and administrative apparatus on the Chinese system under the Taika Reform (645)