Director: Im Kwon-taek
Script: Lee Sang-hyeon
Cinematographer: Koo Joong-mo
Editing: Im Kwon-taek
Music: Shin Byung-ha
Cast: Yu In-chon, Kim Gin-a, Kwon Jae-hee, Kim Young-ae, Ban Hyo-jung
Production: Yeo Jeong-ho
Distribution:
Les Grands Films Classiques
Year: 1987
35 mm, Color, 114 min,
OV Korean with French Subtitles
Yeonsan is dynatsie's 10th King. He reigns during 12 years (1494 – 1506). Learning shortly after he became a King that his mother has been assassinated, he takes a vengeance by taking women who look after his dead mother. He is torn between his duty as a King and a son who mourns his mother. Leading his country into bankruptcy, he dies two motnhs after his destitution.
It's a beautiful historical movie shot in 1987 under Roh Tae-woo's very strict government.