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Audio Format: DD 2.0
Video Format: Widescreen 1.85:1
Languages: Korean
Subtitles: English, Korean
Region Code: ALL
Year Made: 2000
Running Time: 104
Release Date: 10/12/2008
Set at the close of the Yuan Dynasty, a chapter of Chinese history under the Mongolian rule, the Han clan, a family of Koryo refugees, have settled in China, where rivalries between local barons prevails, where alliances are formed and just as quickly broken, fostering an environment in which lov and war live in increasingly close proximity.
Not since The Gingko Bed have Korean audiences been graced with a love story this heartbreaking.
Chin-ha (Shin Hyeon-Jun), the Koryo Dynasty's only surviving royal bloodline heir, has the misfortune of loving the wrong woman, Shilee (Kim Hee-Seon), a daughter of the Taru family, the clan responsible for the brutal murder of his parents. Shilee, meanwhile, though much beloved by her betrothed Chun Kwang (Jeong Jin-Yeong), her spouse by arranged marriage, is unable to sever her heart from Chin-ha. Like Chin-ha, her birth chart shows Mars and Venus in conflict, her yearning for her one true love bringing love under the sign of war. Falling irremediably in love with the son of her family's mortal enemy, her heart conflicts with the demands of family and destiny.
The maxim that lovers need not the world is reinforced by this love story. The tragedy is that, unable to betray itself, love is forced to betray everything else, friends, family, country, etc. When love vows are exchanged between the kin of warring clans, the repercussions are even more heartfelt, each profession of love inflicting a deeper wound in the hearts of the clans. These are the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune felt by Romeo and Juliet and they are revisited again in this classic Asian love story.
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