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| 2 | [[caption-width-right:300: StarCrossedLovers... Be glad for ValuesDissonance.]] |
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| 4 | ''Chunhyang'' is a movie directed by famous Korean filmmaker Im Kwon-taek (whose following movie was ''Film/DrunkOnWomenAndPoetry'') and released in 2000. It is based on a ''pansori'', a type of traditional Korean performance that involves a storyteller reciting and singing a narrative to the sound of a drum. The movie depicts both the pansori itself being performed, and the story being told. |
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| 6 | Mongryong, the son of a newly installed provincial governor, sees the beautiful Chunhyang, the daughter of a former courtesan, and falls in love with her. He arranges to meet her, and to reassure her about the sincerity of his sentiments, agrees to marry her in a secret ceremony. After a period of blissful if clandestine connubial life, Mongryong must leave for Seoul in order to join the ranks of the civil service. |
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| 8 | During his absence, a new governor is nominated and claims Chunhyang as a concubine. She refuses, even when jailed and tortured, and is sentenced to be executed. Mongryong, who has in the meantime become a censor in the royal administration, returns in the guise of a beggar, orders the arrest of the governor and sets everything right. |
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| 11 | !!Contains examples of: |
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| 13 | * BreakTheCutie: Chunhyang's imprisonment and torture. |
| 14 | * DotingParent: Chunhyang's mother. |
| 15 | * FourthDateMarriage: Second date, actually. |
| 16 | * TheGovernment: Its status is ambiguous, unsurprisingly for a tale set in a Confucian society. The new governor is depicted as despotic (see below), but the hero can set things right by becoming an agent of the central government. |
| 17 | * HappilyEverAfter: So the tale ends. |
| 18 | * LoveAtFirstSight |
| 19 | * ShowWithinAShow: The story within the performance. |
| 20 | * StarCrossedLovers: A nobleman's son and a former courtesan's daughter. |
| 21 | * TyrantTakesTheHelm: The new governor is despotic, lecherous and corrupt. |
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