Movie Summary [The King and the Clown]

Title: The King and the Clown / 왕의 남자
Release Date: 2005
Language: Korean
English Subs? – Yep

Cast:
(actor – character)
Kam Wu-seong – Jangsaeng
Lee Jun Ki – Gonggil
Jeong Jin-yeong – King Yeonsan
Kang Seong Yeon – Jang Noksu

Basic Plot Summary:

Jangsaeng and Gonggil are male street clowns, entertainers and performers. Their manager prostitutes the gorgeous Gonggil to rich customers…Jangsaeng is sickened by this. After Gonggil kills the managers in defence of Jangsaeng they run to Seoul, where they start another street performing group.

The group mocks the Royal Court (…the king and his new concubine Jang Noksu)…After they are arrested for treason, Jangsaeng makes a deal with Choseon, who turns out to be one of the kings servants: If they make the king laugh they wont be executed.

The king laughs…and makes them part of his court. The King later falls for the beautiful Gonggil, who he calls into his private chambers and asks him to perform finger puppet shows.

The king becomes more and more unstable – he ends up slaughtering a bunch of his concubines.

Jangsaeng asks Gonggil to leave with him and the group, before the king gets worse. The king reused to grant Gonggil his freedom.

Jang Noksu becomes enraged by the amount of attention the King has been giving Gonggil…

My Thoughts:

*~WARNING!!!~*

May contain Spoilers!!!

And by ‘May’ I mean does!!! 

This movie was really good!

Not exactly a Boys Love movie…but it did have homosexual elements….like the relationship between Gonggil and Jangsaeng…or The Kings affection for Gonggil

The plot summary wasn’t exactly a FULL summary and it was kinda long too….if you want more…:

Jang Noksu tries to have Gonggil jailed…Jangsaeng takes the fall and is imprisoned.

Choseon secretly releases Jangsaeng, telling him to forget Gonggil and leave the palace but Jangsaeng ignores the advice and returns to walk his tightrope across the palace rooftops, mocking the King loudly. The king shoots arrows at him while Gonggil tries to stop him.

Jangsaeng falls and is cuaght, and has his eyes seared with a burning iron as punishment before being thrown into prison again.

Gonggil attempts to commit suicide, but his life is saved by the palace doctors. The king has Jangsaeng walk his tightrope blind. As Jangsaeng tells the story of his and Gonggil’s trails and tribulations while balancing the rope….Gonggil runs out to join him.

The ending is really lovely

The concubine…lady….woman…Jang Noksu is a bitch. I hate her.

The king is so crazy…my god

Gonggil is just gorgeous.

and Jangsaeng is amazing…uh I love him!

Okay, i think we’re done here!

Lee Jun Ki is such a beautiful person.. I think we need a moment of silence to appreciate this gorgeous human being………..okay, thank you!

I rate:

7/10 because its so good….but in terms of BL quality…4/10

Watch Online

Part 1 –

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhIoWuGVHVA

Screen caps:

I’m sorry the first few are so blurry….i had a problem when i was taking screencaps, so i used the video online ^^ but the 2nd part worked juuuuust fine xD

*~SPOILERS~*

[Posted to WP 1st September 2021]

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