Set aside obvious “villains” like Prince Yeonsan, Empress Myeongseong (or Queen Min, for the Lee Byeong-Do aficionados) is arguably one of the most controversial figures of the entire Joseon Dynasty. Whereas her exploits during the final days of the Korean Empire mostly concerned historians and history buffs up until the turn of the century, Jung Ha-Yeon’s 명성황후 (The Last Empress) - not to be confused with the musical, which is much more shallow and nationalistic - put so much fuel on the fire that she ended up entering the collective Korean psyche, what with her roaring “내가 조선의 국모니라 (I am Joseon’s mother of state)” catchphrase. Now, perhaps a little too late to the party and when the topic is starting to lose steam, we even get a film out of it. Before the history buffs take out the sashimi knives, I wouldn’t worry too much: this...
- 8/25/2009
- by X
- Screen Anarchy
Admittedly this poster is horrendous, but as this is part love story like many large scale martial arts flicks, I guess they're choosing to showcase this aspect in both the poster and trailer first as they figure we're going to see it anyways. Why? Just check out the martial arts action in the teaser which has a bit of the 80s kungfu feel to it at points.
Seung-woo Cho plays a Joseon dynasty warrior who falls in love with the future Empress Myseongseong and is forced to become her bodyguard when she marries the king.
Teaser after the break. via Aht and AsianMediaWiki.
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Seung-woo Cho plays a Joseon dynasty warrior who falls in love with the future Empress Myseongseong and is forced to become her bodyguard when she marries the king.
Teaser after the break. via Aht and AsianMediaWiki.
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- 8/10/2009
- QuietEarth.us
The Sword With No Name aka The Last Empress is set in the middle of the 19th century and tells the story of the Korean empress Myeongseong (Su Ae) who falls in love with a common soldier/warrior (Jo Seung-woo) before her coronation who sticks to her side as her bodyguard later on.
MTime posted the first teaser trailer for the Korean martial-arts romance directed by Yong-gyun Kim (The Red Shoes, Wanee and Junah) yesterday which features a lot of impressive scenes…even though they decided not to use a original theme for the video
[See post to watch Flash video] The Sword with No Name will open on September 30th 2009 in Korea, but Showbox already acquired the distribution rights for the UK.
[via MTime & AsiaMediaWiki]...
MTime posted the first teaser trailer for the Korean martial-arts romance directed by Yong-gyun Kim (The Red Shoes, Wanee and Junah) yesterday which features a lot of impressive scenes…even though they decided not to use a original theme for the video
[See post to watch Flash video] The Sword with No Name will open on September 30th 2009 in Korea, but Showbox already acquired the distribution rights for the UK.
[via MTime & AsiaMediaWiki]...
- 8/10/2009
- by Ulrik
- Affenheimtheater
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