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The King and the Clown (2005)
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Two clowns living in Korea's Chosun Dynasty get arrested for staging a play that satirizes the king. They are dragged to the palace and threatened with execution but are given a chance to save their lives if they can make the king laugh.
🏳️🌈 Lee Joon-ik's historic South Korean masterpiece features a deeply intense, tragic, and profoundly queer-coded emotional bond and homoerotic unrequited devotion between two male palace performers.
Cast
Kam Woo-sung Jang-sang
Lee Joon-gi Gong-gil
Jung Jin-young King Yeonsan
Kang Sung-yeon Jang Nok-su
Yoo Hai-jin Yuk-gab
Jang Hang-seon Cheo-sun
Jeong Seok-yong Chil-duk
Lee Seung-hun Pal-bok
Yun Ju-sang Sung Hee-an
Choi Il-hwa Sung Jun
Shin Jung-keun Lee Geuk-kyun
Woo Hyeon Hong
Yun So-jeong Queen In-soo
Lee Young-suk Nobleman
Jeon Il-beom Yoon Ji-sang
Maeng Bong-hak Chief of Police
Jeong Dae-yong Shaman
Cho Ryun Mistress Uhm
Seo Seung-won Butler
Shin Un-seop Spectator 1
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