Based on the novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses, this sumptuous film is set in aristocratic18th century Korea at the end of the Chosun Dynasty. The irresistible temptress Lady Cho 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 attentions soon shift elsewhere: to the graceful and aloof Lady Sook. who lives according to her convictions as a Catholic. Jo-won becomes obsessed with seducing this chaste woman who has remained celibate for nine years since her husband's death. This proves to be more difficult than he expected when Chosun's notorious playboy sets out to conquer the most virtuous woman in the land.

E J-yong
DIRECTOR, WRITER

A graduate of the Korean Academy of Film Art, E J-yong’s first feature-length film was the documentary TALES OF A CITY in 1994. Her films include AN AFFAIR and ASAKO IN RUBY SHOES.