2015 · drama · history · action
Memories of the Sword
Directed by Park Heung-sik2h 0m2015
While in medieval Korea, a young girl sets out to revenge the betrayal and the death of her mother. But therefore she must face one of the most powerful men and warriors of the Goryeo Dynasty.
Our read: Memories of the Sword (2015) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded drama · history · action entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured drama / history, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
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- intense
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