Forbidden Quest
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Forbidden Quest movie poster
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| Hangul | |
| Hanja | |
| Revised Romanization | Eumranseosaeng |
| McCune–Reischauer | Ŭmransŏsaeng |
| Directed by | Kim Dae-woo |
| Produced by | Yun In-beom Kim Su-jin Im Jeong-ha |
| Written by | Kim Dae-woo |
| Starring |
Han Suk-kyu Lee Beom-soo Kim Min-jung |
| Music by | Mok Young-jin |
| Cinematography | Kim Ji-yong |
| Edited by | Steve M. Choe Kim Chang-ju |
| Distributed by | CJ Entertainment |
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139 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean |
| Box office | US$15,608,170 |
Forbidden Quest (Hangul: 음란서생; RR: Eumranseosaeng) is a 2006 South Korean period drama film about a scholar during the Joseon Dynasty who begins to write erotic novels, and becomes the lover of the King's favorite concubine.
The film has not been released in Europe or America, and is only available on region 3 DVDs since May 27, 2006.
At the start of the film, Kim Yoon-seo, an Inspections officer (police inspector) is seen at his home where his brother has been beaten almost to death. His family wants to submit a false appeal to the king accusing the family of the Deputy Prime Minister, the Lim family. The Lim family had by the past submitted a false appeal against Yoon-seo's family. However Yoon-seo does not wish to submit such an appeal, much to the anger of his elders.
He returns to the court where the King hands him an important assignment. The King's concubine, Jung-bin, had a painting she had drawn mounted, but it was replaced by an exact copy, she only realized because of the lack of a scribble she had drawn on the back. The King would like Yoon-seo to find the culprits. Yoon-seo is impressed by the talent of the artist who made the fraudulent copy. Jung-bin is in turn impressed by Yoon-seo's knowledge on the subject and invites him to talk to her some more about art some day.
Yoon-seo teams up with Lee Gwang-hun, an inspector who likes to torture people in his dungeons, to try to hunt down the culprit. They enter a shop in their search for the criminal. In the basement Yoon-seo encounters an old man transcribing an erotic story book. Back upstairs a group of men from the village enter the shop and engages in a fight with Gwang-hun, who beats them away with his truncheon, however Yoon-seo is knocked out so Gwang-hun takes him back to his house with him. When Yoon-seo awakes he admires Gwang-hun's painting artwork. Back at the shop the old man confesses to Yoon-seo that he does not wish to protect the mounter either, but that one of his friends is involved and he does not wish to betray him. After Yoon-seo has promised to protect his identity, the old man gives him an address he may go to. Out of curiosity before he leaves he reads few verses from the book the old man is reproducing. He is at first outraged by the content (pornography being illegal at the time), but when the old man says the whole city is waiting for the book he shows some interest and perhaps embarrassment about never having heard of the author. He reports later to the King that he found the culprits and had each flogged fifty times.
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