The King and the Clown

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The King and the Clown
Directed by	Lee Jun-Ik
Produced by	Jeong Jin-wan Lee Jun-Ik
Written by	Choi Seok-hwan (screenplay) Kim Tae-wung (original play)
Starring	Gam Wu-seong Jeong Jin-young Kang Seong-yeon Lee Jun Ki
Music by	Lee Byeong-wu
Cinematography	Ji Gil-Wung
Editing by	Kim Sang-beom Kim Jae-beom
Distributed by	Cinema Service
Release date(s)	December 29, 2005 (South Korea)
Running time	119 min.
Language	Korean
Budget	$4.5 million USD (est.)
IMDb profile
Korean name
Hangul:	왕의 남자
Hanja:	王의 男子
Revised Romanization:	Wang-ui namja
McCune-Reischauer:	Wang-ui namcha

The King and the Clown (왕의 남자, Wang-ui namja) is a 2005 South Korean film, adapted from the 2000 Korean play titled "Yi", ("You") about Yeonsangun of Joseon, a Joseon dynasty king who falls in love with a court clown who mocks him. The movie is based on a small passage from the Annals of the Joseon Dynasty that briefly mentions the king's favorite clown. It was the highest grossing (over $85,000,000 in domestic receipts) Korean film in history with 12.3 million viewers, surpassing total admissions of Silmido and Taegukgi until the horror film The Host surpassed the record in summer of 2006. Production costs were relatively modest for a Korean film, approximately $4.5 million dollars.

There are alternative titles of this movie: The King's Men or The King's Man (the literal translation of the Korean title) and All the King's Men (working title).

This film was chosen by Korea as its submission for the Oscars in the best foreign film category. [1]