This film, based on the novel 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses,' is set in aristocratic 18th-century Korea near the end of the Chosun Dynasty. Lady Cho, the irresistible temptress, asks her cad of a younger cousin, Jo-won, to deflower the innocent young Soh-ok, who is to become her husband's concubine. But his gaze soon shifts to the graceful and aloof Lady Sook, who lives her Catholic convictions. Jo-won becomes obsessed with seducing this chaste woman who has been celibate for nine years since her husband's death. Conquering the most virtuous woman in the land, however, proves more difficult than Chosun's notorious playboy anticipates.
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This film, based on the novel 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses,' is set in aristocratic 18th-century Korea near the end of the Chosun Dynasty. Lady Cho, the irresistible temptress, asks her cad of a younger cousin, Jo-won, to deflower the innocent young Soh-ok, who is to become her husband's concubine. But his gaze soon shifts to the graceful and aloof Lady Sook, who lives her Catholic convictions. Jo-won becomes obsessed with seducing this chaste woman who has been celibate for nine years since her husband's death. Conquering the most virtuous woman in the land, however, proves more difficult than Chosun's notorious playboy anticipates.
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