Star-crossed lovers with sharp pointy weapons: Bichunmu (Chinese/Korean coproduction)
OMG.
I have a new drama obsession.
And it's a very unlikely one.
It is the Chinese-Korean collaboration Bichunmu (also known as Bichunmoo and Dance in the Sky). There is a Korean movie of the same name. Both the drama and the movie are based on the same source).
Period epic dramas and me are an uneven combination. Some I end up loving (like 2006's adaptation of Return of the Condor Heroes) and a lot lose me because they are too long or have odd beards :P
Luckily, this looks like it will fall on the former side of the divide.
Binchunmu combines two of my favorite things: star-crossed forbidden lovers and the couple that kicks butt with the help of lots of swords.
The story is set during Ming Dynasty. Jan, who is a Korean warrior (who later becomes a rebel leader) and the illegitimate daughter of a Chinese commander, fall in love. Did I mention that, unbeknownst to the lovers, her father is the one who had his family killed? And it goes from there...
Anyway, I was sold on this from the beginning, where a young teenager (most likely their son) is standing, looking at a sword and necklace (???) which is entwined around it, and it flashbacks and intercuts between the kid, and the heroine and the hero, with the massed army behind them and in front of them, and her telling him she will never leave him again, and then they charge, their army at their back, and she is fighting and he is fighting and then it's some time later and they are the only ones left alive, and they are faced by the wall of archers and they look at each other, and lift their swords and just charge into them. It's just...
GUUUUH.
Anyway, the only MV on youtube I found is still pics but here it is:
And here is the opening I liked:
ETA: First ep is largely about Jan's parents who were all sorts of awesome (and hot) but it seems a family trait to be a loving couple who gets hideously slain together. Pity.
I have a new drama obsession.
And it's a very unlikely one.
It is the Chinese-Korean collaboration Bichunmu (also known as Bichunmoo and Dance in the Sky). There is a Korean movie of the same name. Both the drama and the movie are based on the same source).
Period epic dramas and me are an uneven combination. Some I end up loving (like 2006's adaptation of Return of the Condor Heroes) and a lot lose me because they are too long or have odd beards :P
Luckily, this looks like it will fall on the former side of the divide.
Binchunmu combines two of my favorite things: star-crossed forbidden lovers and the couple that kicks butt with the help of lots of swords.
The story is set during Ming Dynasty. Jan, who is a Korean warrior (who later becomes a rebel leader) and the illegitimate daughter of a Chinese commander, fall in love. Did I mention that, unbeknownst to the lovers, her father is the one who had his family killed? And it goes from there...
Anyway, I was sold on this from the beginning, where a young teenager (most likely their son) is standing, looking at a sword and necklace (???) which is entwined around it, and it flashbacks and intercuts between the kid, and the heroine and the hero, with the massed army behind them and in front of them, and her telling him she will never leave him again, and then they charge, their army at their back, and she is fighting and he is fighting and then it's some time later and they are the only ones left alive, and they are faced by the wall of archers and they look at each other, and lift their swords and just charge into them. It's just...
GUUUUH.
Anyway, the only MV on youtube I found is still pics but here it is:
Click to viewAnd here is the opening I liked:
ETA: First ep is largely about Jan's parents who were all sorts of awesome (and hot) but it seems a family trait to be a loving couple who gets hideously slain together. Pity.