This movie is not for everyone. Nor it's a classic k movie, focusing either on romance or crime. This one is a remake from the Japanese movies with the same name. However, this version, focuses more on the character and on her struggles rather than the nature and the recipies that she makes during the four seasons. Her relationships mostly revolve around her mother who left one day without explenation. After that, we are presented with the girl's friends and possible love interest, although a love story never gets really developed. Also, the heartwarming atmosphere and the love for a simple life near the nature is there, though it's not the focus of this movie.

Gentle and sweet movie that relaxes the mind. The brave and feisty heroine of "Mr. Sunshine" is here a woman who rediscovers her self and peace in the land and people of her childhood.

Getting tired of city life, she come back to country side to avoid her problems. This movie gets you trapped in story telling. The problems of single mother and her sacrifices which her daughter is unable to understand when she leaves her just before graduation. Problems understanding each others life perspective, dating issues, city life vs country side life. This compares many life phenomenon, memories with farming amd cooking. How unable to express ones feeling makes things complicated and its all about finding your own 'little forest' to spend the entire life around it. Finding peace with yourself and the job you are doing. Will she solve her problems and calm her mind? The ending is open but clear.