Four character posters for Lee Jun-ik’s new film
by javabeans
King and the Clown director Lee Jun-ik‘s latest movie, Like the Moon Escaping from Clouds [구르믈 버서난 달처럼], has released character posters for its four leads, and they are simply gorgeous.
Based on a manhwa created by Park Heung-yong, this movie is set in the Joseon era as a revolutionary attempts to upend the social order and become king. The year is 1592 as the three lead males “are forced to wield their swords at each other in a fateful showdown.”
The lead character (the revolutionary) is played by City Hall‘s Cha Seung-won, while Hwang Jung-min plays a blind sword master; his Accidental Couple co-star Baek Sung-hyun takes on a character abandoned by his family and the world. As the sole female lead, Han Ji-hye plays a woman who risks all to claim the man she loves.
Like the Moon Escaping from Clouds will be released in the first half of 2010.
Han Ji-hye’s poster above reads: “I’m not in my dreams, am I? –Baek Ji”
Cha Seung-won’s tagline below reads: “I’ll cut down this rotten world with my sword. –Lee Mong-hak”
Hwang Jung-min’s reads: “A swordsman must hide behind his sword. –Hwang Jung-hak”
Baek Sung-hyun’s poster: “I’m son of a dog, a son of a bitch. –Gyeon Ja”
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Tags: Baek Sung-hyun, Cha Seung-won, Han Ji-hye, Hwang Jung-min
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1 Lily
November 2, 2009 at 11:24 PM
Ah really want to see the movie!!
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2 sue
November 2, 2009 at 11:29 PM
oooh i guess they lost uhm & ryu but gained cha and baek? hehe. i wonder if this'll be my kind of thing..
edit: i just looked up who baek sunghyun is,.. and omg he's an '89er, he looks way too old in that poster!
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3 le meera
November 2, 2009 at 11:33 PM
“I’m son of a dog, a son of a bitch."
wooohoooooo! haha!
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4 pabo ceo reom
November 3, 2009 at 12:00 AM
You can do a lot worse than this cast.. :)
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5 Rin
November 3, 2009 at 12:04 AM
Baek Sung Hyun with a mustache? D: lol that's just funny.
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6 belleza
November 3, 2009 at 12:11 AM
Hwang Jung-min as a "Zatoichi" sounds really awesome. I think Cha is a better fit than Uhm, but I would have loved Ryu to play Baek's part.
Not sure about Han Ji Hye taking on this role. Hoping she'll do her best.
And I agree with Sarah. Those are gorgeous, gorgeous posters
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7 Sophia JiHye
November 3, 2009 at 12:32 AM
looks like very interesting...
I like the revolutionary stories ^^
Posters are really nice!
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8 MAY
November 3, 2009 at 12:40 AM
awwww, I was looking forward to seeing Hwang & Ryu work together again~
-anticipates nonetheless-
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9 samsooki
November 3, 2009 at 12:48 AM
Zatoichi but not Zatoichi, right? Unless he also does the sword drawing technique that would make him fairly unique ...
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10 belleza
November 3, 2009 at 1:02 AM
"Zatoichi but not Zatoichi, right?"
Very Zatoichi. Uses backhand sword style and grimaces when drawing sword.
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11 jacq
November 3, 2009 at 1:09 AM
Whao!!~~ Gorgeous posters of gorgeous cast indeed. I LOVE Hwang Jung-min! This is gonna be a great movie!! Can't wait to watch!
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12 cc
November 3, 2009 at 1:30 AM
Wow! Gorgeous posters!
Looking forward to this movie!!
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13
November 3, 2009 at 2:15 AM
I don't recognize Baek Sung Hyun in the poster above.
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14 Miss_Sandalettes
November 3, 2009 at 2:57 AM
beautiful posters ! enough to make me want to actually watch the movie :)
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15 heejung
November 3, 2009 at 3:39 AM
lol at the last poster. clever play on hanja :D
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16 kellie
November 3, 2009 at 4:38 AM
If only good posters could make a good historical film. Remembering what they did to Empress Myeongseong recently in a Su-ae film I'll wait for the reviews.
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17 sawol
November 3, 2009 at 5:45 AM
han ji hye looks gorgeous
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18 Rovi
November 3, 2009 at 6:18 AM
Luuuuuurve Han Ji-hye's poster...so elegant...
If the film is in 1592, then that means it's the era of Yi Sun-shin and Imjin Waeran... (so a Joseon yeoksa nerd... :P)
BTW, what happened to Su Ae's film???
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19 kellie
November 3, 2009 at 6:45 AM
Rovi ~ Myeongseong was an enlightened monarch who was brutally assassinated by the Japanese. The Su-ae movie portrayed her as having an affair with a bodyguard (no basis for that in history) and her husband, the king, as a wife-rapist (no basis for that in history). Critics said the whole plot was just an excuse for one over-the-top action sequence after another. Boo.
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20 all4movies
November 3, 2009 at 8:52 AM
Han Ji Hye looks lovely in a hanbok and Cha Seung Won looks dashing. My heart is thumping already,
Can't wait to watch this.
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21 ktowngirl
November 3, 2009 at 9:08 AM
i agree! totally beautiful posters~ can't wait for the movie to come out!
btw, i think Han Ji Hye's poster says "i'm not in your dreams, am i?"
Thanx for all your hard work!! i LOVE your site!!!! =)
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22 samsooki
November 3, 2009 at 9:11 AM
@10 belleza -
Very Zatoichi. Uses backhand sword style and grimaces when drawing sword.
Zatoichi is one of my fav old-school ronin-style series (seen almost all of them, many times), sooooo glad they didn't screw it up by audio dubbing in English, which would have made it unwatchable.
I hope Hwang Jung-hak the blind swordmaster is different from Ichi-san though. I'm skeptical that the portrayal of the character can be as good as the "original." If he starts doing iaido then it will be hard not to make a straight-up comparison and I think the korean version will fall short.
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23 ar_arguably romantic
November 3, 2009 at 9:20 AM
beautiful posters!
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24 jenni
November 3, 2009 at 9:35 AM
wow i really want to watch this cant wait :d
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25 bita
November 3, 2009 at 9:43 AM
WOW . . .
I can't wait to watch this movie . . .
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