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aka JOSEON NAMNYEO SANGYEOLJISA
Year: 2003
USA: Kino International
UK: Soda Pictures
Cast: Bae Yong-jun, Lee Mi-sook, Jeon Do-yeon, Cho Hyeon-jae, Lee
Soh-yeon
Director: E J-Yong
Country: South Korea
Language: Korean (English subtitles)
UK: 124 mins
UK Certificate: 18 contains strong sex
USA Release Date: 22 October 2004 (Limited Release - Los Angeles)
USA Release Date: 15 October 2004 (Limited Release - New York)
UK Release Date: 22 April 2005
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Synopsis
Based on the novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses, UNTOLD SCANDAL is set in
aristocratic18th century Korea at the end of the Chosun Dynasty.
The
irresistible temptress Lady Cho (Lee Mi-Suk) asks her cad of a younger
cousin, Jo-won (Bae Yong-Jun), to deflower the innocent young Soh-ok (Lee
So-Yeon), who is to become her husband's concubine.
But his attentions
soon shift elsewhere: to the graceful and aloof Lady Sook (Jeon Do-Yeaon)
who lives according to her convictions as a Catholic. Jo-won becomes
obsessed with seducing this chaste woman who has remained celibate for
nine years since her husband's death. However, it proves to be more
difficult than he expected when Chosun's notorious playboy sets out to
conquer the most virtuous woman in the land.
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