The Harem's Concubine of the Emperor is an ancient Korean harem film directed by South Korean director Kim Dae-seung and starring Cho Joo-jin, Kim Min-joon and Kim Dong-wook. The film was filmed in 2012.
The film tells the story of the tragic fate of the ancient Korean king who loved a woman and the man who loved this woman deeply, and the tragic fate of the people who coveted the king's throne at that time, and the intricate and changeable ethical relationship.
When Shengyuan was still a son of the world, he met his daughter Huayan at the chancellor Shen Counselor's house, and Shengyuan fell in love with Huayan at first sight. However, his mother,corpus, for her own political ambitions, betrothed Hua Yanxu to his half-brother as queen, and Shengyuan fled.
Hua Yanben and the servant of the family, Youben, are a pair of lovers, and Kwon You inadvertently learns that his lover HuaYan is going to enter the palace as a princess, so he elopes with his lover, but is caught by Hua Yan's father, who agrees to his father to enter the palace in order to save his lover's life.
Five years later, the king at that time was seriously ill, and under the conspiracy and arrangement of his mother, Shengyuan returned to the palace to inherit the throne, and it was his mother who actually controlled the power, and Shengyuan became a puppet king.
Hua Yan's father was also persecuted by his mother and executed in this bloody coup. At this time, Shengyuan met Hua Yan, who had become his imperial concubine, and the shackles of power burned the long-desired desire in Shengyuan's heart!
However, after the failure of the elopement of the family slave Quan You, who saved his life, was castrated by Shen Shan, in order to ascend to the peak of power, he hated to enter the palace as an internal servant, endured humiliation and stealing life, during this period, Quan You got in touch with Hua Yan through various means, and later because of the rumors in the palace that he had an affair with Hua Yan, he was caught by Shengyuan.
With the court struggle as the background, the fate of the three people is intertwined, and a dynastic harem tragedy is brewing under the contradiction and conflict of love and power, passion and hatred!
Plot detail analysis:
First of all, I personally feel that this is not a harem drama, because there are not many stories of concubines and queens competing for favors.
Hua Yan is likened to a prey of a game of kingship, destined to be obtained by the emperor and destined to be hunted by the magnates. These are confirmed in the play, such as after Hua Yan and Kwon Yoo failed to elope, Hua Yan was arrested and returned to the palace, when Hua Yan bathed and changed clothes, the maid Shang Gong undressed her, Hua Yan was very shy at this time, she said: "Can't I take it off myself?" Shang Gong said, "No." "Everything has to follow the rules of the palace." You can't break the rules. When the rules are messed up, everything is messed up.
Hua Yan said this: "Can't I control my own body?" ”
This already shows that Huayan is a pawn in the struggle for imperial power, and he can't help himself!
What is the harem? The harem is a field full of desire, and if you are trapped in it, you can't end well.
Later, Shengyuan wanted to get his imperial sister-in-law Huayan more and more, and during a secret conversation, Shengyuan wanted to take this opportunity to get Huayan's love by the overlord, and in the process of their intertwining, Huayan scolded him to stop and said, "If you want to get me, you have to get the world first", "When you completely control the world, I am your person." ”
Hua Yan was telling Shengyuan, "You should control the world!" Hua Yan's consciousness was telling him to take back the power of the world from his mother and become a real king.
After that, Saint Source did the same! During a reign, he regained power from his mother.
After that, Shengyuan was rushed to Huayan's palace by the monkey, and Shengyuan asked Huayan to fulfill her promise, and Huayan also fulfilled her promise. King Shengyuan got Hua Yan's body, but he never got her heart! In the process of their intersection, Hua Yan took advantage of his lack of preparation, pulled a hairpin from his hair, and fiercely inserted it into Shengyuan's neck, the main artery was bleeding unceasingly, and Shengyuan drove the crane west.
Hua Yan was in tears just holding the Saint Source Monarch like this, and at this time, the pain in Hua Yan's heart could not be understood by anyone.
Shortly thereafter, Hua Yan took his son to the new throne. Hua Yan then became a concubine and assisted the new king in listening to the government.
All this seems that Hua Yan is the ultimate victor, but in fact, this palace fight tragedy that does not seem to be a palace fight drama has no real victor, and the participants are the victims of this absurd feudal dynasty.