# The Treacherous (2015)

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**Original title**: *간신*
**Runtime**: 133 min
**Genres**: Drama, History, Crime
**Directed by**: Min Kyu-dong
**Written by**: Min Kyu-dong, Lee Yoon-Seong
**Starring**: Ju Ji-hoon, Kim Kang-woo, Lim Ji-yeon, Lee You-young, Cheon Ho-jin, Cha Ji-yeon

> *A tyrant king, a treacherous subject, and a woman seeking revenge.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

You shoulder a servant’s shift in a palace where the king’s excesses leak into every corridor. Then you’re pulled into a plot to topple him. The camera lingers just long enough to notice how power smells.

**Mood tags**: dread, paranoid, raw

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