Shadows in the Palace (2007) on Netflix
PG-1320071h 52mCrimeDramaHistory
Palace women at the Joseon court serve the royal family under vows of secrecy and celibacy. Royal medic Chun-ryung finds the hanged maid was strangled, and her superiors want the case closed.
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The palace women of Joseon, the gungnyeo, live under vows of secrecy, submission and celibacy and devote themselves to the royal family. The kingdom has no heir, and the royal concubine Hee-bin has borne a son. The queen mother wants the queen to adopt the boy, while Hee-bin fears that once the adoption is settled she will be discarded. One morning the maids find Wol-ryung, Hee-bin's most trusted attendant, hanging from the palace rafters. It looks like suicide. Chun-ryung, the royal medic, carries out the autopsy and finds that Wol-ryung was strangled, and that she had once given birth, which palace law forbids. Her superiors order her to close the matter quickly, but Chun-ryung keeps looking for answers.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Shadows in the Palace (2007)
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- Shadows in the Palace was filmed on the same set used for King and the Clown (2005), the film on whose directing staff its first-time director, Kim Mee-jung, had previously worked.
