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"Sword and Flower") is a 2013 South Korean television series that aired on KBS2 from July 3 to September 5, 2013, on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 20 episodes. Kim Ok-vin and Uhm Tae-woong play star-crossed lovers doomed by their fathers' epic battle for political power during the Goguryeo dynasty.
Fast-sword Hong Gil-dong) is a 2008 South Korean television series starring Kang Ji-hwan in the title role, Sung Yu-ri, Jang Keun-suk and Kim Ri-na and is written by the Hong sisters. The drama is loosely based on Hong Gil-dong , a fictional book about a Robin Hood -like character during Korea's Joseon Dynasty , but with modern influences and ...
It is a translation from the French de cape et d'épée [5] and Spanish de capa y espada ("of cloak and sword"). These phrases referred to a genre of swashbuckler drama in which the main characters wore these items. In 1840, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote, "In the afternoon read La Dama Duende of Calderón – a very good comedy of 'cloak and ...
The Sword with No Name (Korean: 불꽃처럼 나비처럼; RR: Bulkkotcheoreom Nabicheoreom; lit. Like Fireworks, Like Butterflies) is a 2009 South Korean historical action drama film, starring Cho Seung-woo and Soo Ae. This film is based on a fictionalized account of Empress Myeongseong. [2] [3] The film sold 1,671,387 tickets nationwide. [4]
Blades of Blood (Korean: 구름을 벗어난 달처럼; RR: Gureumeul Beoseonan Dalcheoreom; lit. Like the Moon Escaping from the Clouds) is a 2010 South Korean period action drama film directed by Lee Joon-ik. The film is based on Park Heung-yong's graphic novel Like the Moon Escaping from the Clouds. [1]
Cloak (Tyrone "Ty" Johnson) and Dagger (Tandy Bowen) are a superhero duo appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.Created by writer Bill Mantlo and artist Ed Hannigan, the characters first appeared in Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #64 (March 1982).
[2] [3] In parallel with "sword and sorcery", the term "heroic fantasy" is used, although it is a more loosely defined genre. [4] Sword and sorcery tales eschew overarching themes of "good vs evil" in favor of situational conflicts that often pit morally gray characters against one another to enrich themselves, or to defy tyranny.
Set in 1920s, during the turbulent period of Japanese occupation, following the disbanding of the Korean military and police and other repressions (which followed the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1905), many people of Joseon fled across the Tumen River to Gando, a part of China (Qing), some to make a living and others to form righteous armies, and fight for independence for Korea.