Sageuk Lover

Yes, she said she's filming an omnibus movie. Meaning the movie has many main characters and storylines. I hope her storyline is good. She also said she's not sure when her movie with Kwon Sang Woo will be released but she hopes it to be the end of this year.

hehas always been talented and has always challenged himself. he had an image of a cute boy for running man (2010) and sungkyunkwan scandal (2010), but his acting of serious roles like innocent man (2012), werewold boy (2012), and his important cameo in tree with deep roots (2011) made people think of him seriously as an actor. some of his long time fans actually didn't like that he chose descendants of the sun (2016) as a comeback project after his serious roles because they thought it wasn't a challenge to him.

she's great in the sound of magic

have you seen the Red Sleeve? I feel like you might like it.

This was an epic kdrama, a beautifully made sageuk. With this and The Red Sleeve from 2021, I love that Korea is again making these good heartfelt sageuks. I really enjoyed the story and I love the soundtrack. I hope both Namgoong Min and Ahn Eun Jin wins Baeksang Awards for Baeksang 2024.

This was an epic kdrama, a beautifully made sageuk. With this and The Red Sleeve from 2021, I love that Korea is again making these good heartfelt sageuks, I was getting too tired with the Kpop-fan trendy sageuks (I do watch them if an actor I love is in them). I really enjoyed the story and I love the soundtrack. I hope both Namgoong Min and Ahn Eun Jin wins Baeksang Awards for Baeksang 2024.

same. when Lee Joon Gi had a drama in 2022, I watched her drama It's Okay Daddy's Girl weekly, pretending she had an ongoing drama at the same time.

I think the creators did mention that it was inspired by Gone with the Wind.

I haven't watched the second one, but both Captivating the King and Under the Queen's Umbrella are good. Queen's Umbrella is not romance centric, it's more about a Queen dealing with her sons and the sons of her husband's concubines. You can see in Queen's Umbrella the male lead and second male lead from Lee Se Young's (Red Sleeve actress) time travel kdrama from last year Story of Park's Marriage Contract.
I feel like your type of sageuk is something that involves intense romance, so I also suggest Empress Ki. It has 50 something episodes and from 2014, but it was popular internationally. It's a love triangle between a Korean girl, a Yuan China King, and a Korean King. It's romance combined with revenge and action themes.
The Red Sleeve is based on a real love story of a real Korean king and his favorite concubine. There was also a 2007 drama called Yisan that includes their love story though it has some creative liberties (like female lead was also a painter), has 77 episodes, and has more story about how the male lead is as a prince and then king to his people. Not sure if you'll be interested to watch since it's too long and from 2007, but you can try searching the drama's trailer and music video of its theme song (showing the main couple) by searching this: "Yisan Promise".

There is no official announcement coming from her that she won't do a drama or movie for the next few years. In the meantime, we can use this time to watch other actors but always suggest MCW works when they are looking for dramas/suggestions. I never fail to suggest The Princess Man sageuk when people want to know which sageuk romance to watch. I also suggest Flower of Evil but never fail to mention that MCW is as great as male lead Lee Joon Gi (who I feel is the actor most people know from that drama given how popular his 2016 drama was).

watch The Princess Man for Moon Chae Won, highly recommended. I'm sure you'll love it, basing on your profile picture you're a sageuk fan.

I just saw your comment from Flower of Evil page, you should definitely watch this as this is Moon Chae Won's (Flower of Evil female lead actress) breakthrough role as a lead actress. She got a baeksang nomination for this role.

it's worth a watch, this drama is the standard of melo-romance sageuks. Before 2016, lead actress Moon Chae Won was always suggested by fans as a female lead when there are announcements of sageuk dramas.
There are so many older sageuks that are very good, please don't let their age hinder you from watching them. Here's a link of Hwang Jini (a drama about a gisaeng aka Korean geisha) from 2006: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db1rAvm1L7Y&list=PLMf7VY8La5RHJnZFxMqWATPU2jDYmrdBA. It was well received in Korea and in some other countries where it was shown.

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please don't, there's only a few of us here :(.

I thought the story was very unique and the acting was really good. I watched it for Kim Yoo Jung and she, along with main leads Ryu Seung Ryong and Ahn Jae Hong were amazing in this. The latter episodes dragged a bit for me, but I'm still giving this a good score of 9 for its unique premise, story, plus great acting.

it's not a knock -off, more like a slightly different take on the real love story between Yisan and his beloved concubine. The 2007 drama, while having romance as one of the main themes, also dealt with a lot of political events and happenings and also dedicated some episodes as to how Yisan was a great king even after his beloved concubine died. Red Sleeve also has politics, but it has greater focus on the relationship of the main couple. Both dramas are amazing, but I have to say The Red Sleeve is more accurate since Yisan's beloved concubine was not a painter but a writer/transcriber. She was made a painter for Yisan drama since the director of that drama wanted to do a drama about Joseon painters Kim Hong Do and Shin Yun Bok (painters who lived furing Yisan's reign) and he wanted to have a test as to how to show Korean arts and paintings in kdrama (this drama did not materialize though since the kdrama Painter of the Wind was made by a different director just a year later).

King Yeongjo is the son of Dongyi and King Sukjong. King Sukjong is the King who had at least 3 queens throughout his reign.

I watched this in 2015 but I never really appreciated this movie until now. Also, watching this in 2024 feels oddly satisfying. I feel like the real relationship of LizQuen is closest to this fictional couple among all the couples they played (second being the couple from Alone Together) as I get the impression that Liza and Enrique are both passionate in filmmaking and making shows and Enrique is selfless in how he loves Liza. They have good chemistry in all their movies, but the chemitry here is just really amazing. The way Enrique looks and speaks to Liza! Both Enrique and Liza portrayed their characters really well. I really enjpyed the love story, glad the girl Audrey chose someone (Ethan) who lets her be who she wants to be and dream what she wanted to do rather than someone who wants her to change. Wih Liza's hollywood career and both her and Enrique insisting they never broke up, I feel like Enrique's love to Liza is similar to the way Ethan loves Audrey in this movie, he encourages the girl to make her dreams come true and loves her for her true self.
It may seem to some people that Audrey is cheating on Tristan (played by Gerald Anderson) with Ethan here, but I totally understand why she would fall for Ethan, Tristan was a really toxic boyfriend who wants Audrey to change for him and does not love her for who she is (unlike Ethan).

This is very enjoyable but not as good as Alone/Together among LizQuen movies. The acting between Liza and Enrique is very convincing. The movie is also an enjoyable watch for a lazy weekend. However, the basic point of the plot, Gio's "cheating", is not very convincing since he didn't really cheat but was only taken advantage of during a night when he was drunk. I understand that girls get hurt if guys lay down with other women even when they were drunk, but Cali breaking up with him and making her a man-hater because of it makes her character less admirable. I wish they made another scenario of how Gio would cheat on Cali (ex: being taken to a bar after a tiring and disappointing day at school or work where he was really tempted to sleep with another girl for comfort because he was really disappointed with what happened at school or work). However, the fact that Cali's dad cheated on her mom did help add to the pain of Cali as well as make her man-hating personality develop more.
I wish the film was less "racist" though. How could a film be filmed in South Korea and then call a Korean character Kimmychi (joke on kimchi food)? While this mistake can be forgivable since Kimmychi maybe just a term of endearment from her boyfriend, using the term "slanted eyes" is just a little bit too much.
3.5 over 5 for Liza and Enrique's performance and for it being an enjoyable film for me to watch. A Korean person might however find this film a bit offensive.