The Servant (2010 film)
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| Hangul | |
| Hanja | |
| Revised Romanization | Bang-ja-jeon |
| McCune–Reischauer | Pang-ja-jŏn |
| Directed by | Kim Dae-woo |
| Produced by | Moon Yang-kwon Im Seung-yong Seo Woo-sik Park Dae-hee |
| Written by | Kim Dae-woo |
| Starring |
Kim Joo-hyuk Jo Yeo-jeong Ryoo Seung-bum |
| Music by | Mok Young-jin |
| Cinematography | Kim Young-min |
| Edited by | Kim Sang-bum |
| Distributed by | CJ Entertainment |
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124 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean |
| Box office | US$19,259,164 |
The Servant (Hangul: 방자전; RR: Bang-ja-jeon; lit. "The Story of Bang-ja" or "Bang-ja Chronicles", compare to Chunhyangjeon) is a 2010 South Korean historical romantic drama film starring Kim Joo-hyuk, Jo Yeo-jeong and Ryoo Seung-bum. It re-tells the origins of the famous Korean folktale Chunhyangjeon from the perspective of the male protagonist Lee Mong-ryong's servant.
The film was a box office hit, receiving 3,014,523 admissions.
Throughout the movie, the scene switches between the 'present' Bang providing the narration, and the flashback events of his past.
While a servant, Bangja shares his rooms with Mr. Ma, a notorious womanizer and self-stylized Lothario. Bangja escorts his master (Mong-ryong) to an evening out at the local pleasure house, where they are witness to a performance by the madam's daughter Chunhyang. While trying to arrange a meeting between Chunhyang and his rather clumsy and socially awkward master, Bangja defends Mong-ryong from a larger, disgruntled patron and inadvertently impresses both Chunhyang and her maidservant Hyangdan.
Mr. Ma begins to coach the simple, honest Bangja in the ways of seducing women, which Bang uses to secure a picnic outing for Mong-ryong with Chunhyang through Hyangdan. During the excursion, Bangja so astounds the ladies by cooking meat to perfection, recovering Chunhyang's slipper from the waterfall pool, and carrying her on his back after she injured her ankle, that a love triangle rapidly begins to form between the two women and Bangja, much to the consternation of Mong-ryong, though he boasts that he is slowly luring Chunhyang to him by playing hard to get.
While his master continues to study, Bangja attempts to court Chunhyang. Mr. Ma continues to provide instruction to Bangja, assuaging his concerns when he thinks his master may have slept with her, and pushing him to seize upon spending the night with her before his master can. Though Bangja's seduction is clumsy and his approach very tentative, Chunhyang begins to fall for him and makes love to him on several occasions. Due to his low social-standing, however, she seeks to marry Mong-ryong and enlists Bangja's help in order to make this plan a reality.
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