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Goryeo's king is married to a princess of the Yuan dynasty, and the two have no child. The Yuan emperor and the king's own counselors keep pressing him to produce a crown prince and secure the royal line. The palace guard consists of thirty-six young soldiers under commander Hong-rim, who is also the king's lover. The king's attention to Hong-rim leaves the queen hesitant about the relationship and largely on her own. To answer the demand for an heir, the king orders Hong-rim to father a child with the queen. The order troubles both Hong-rim and the queen, who obey it nonetheless.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about A Frozen Flower (2008)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The film draws on the real King Gongmin of Goryeo, who according to historical records descended into "homosexual debauchery" after the death of his Mongolian-born queen, Princess Noguk, and hired noble-born male bodyguards in 1372; when one of them made his second wife pregnant, the king tried to kill him and was killed by the bodyguard's friends.
- Zo In-sung was on board from the start, turning down other acting roles to make A Frozen Flower his last work before military enlistment, and took the part without knowing the details out of faith in director Yoo Ha after their 2005 film A Dirty Carnival.
- The film's title comes from a song of the Goryeo era that described the sexual relationship between the characters Hong-rim and the Queen.
