The Magician

Here's a film that wants to be both Crouching Tiger and Penn & Teller. A Joseon princess en route to an arranged marriage falls for a magician. It perhaps succeeds more on the Penn & Teller front.

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Kim Dae-seung directed The Magician in 2015. See Kim Dae-seung's full filmography, where to start with Kim Dae-seung, or where to go after you've seen everything by Kim Dae-seung.

The Magician was released in 2015 (KO original-language production), with a runtime of 122 minutes.