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The Sword With No Name will be screening for free on Tuesday, June 15th at 7Pm as part of Korean Movie Night, courtesy of the Korean Cultural Service, Subway Cinema, and Tribeca Cinemas at 54 Varick Street, on the corner of Canal Street, one block from the A, C, E and 1 train Canal Street stops. You can find out more about their lineup at www.subwaycinemanews.com.

I'm conflicted about director Yong-Gyun Kim's romantic action film, The Sword With No Name because it feels like it's attempting to be two movies: a movie that I'd seen quite a few times and became impatient with earlier on and another that I'd never seen before and wanted to see more of. The former is the epic, patriotic action movie with grand, zooming camera moves, extensive CG, and improbable combat done in slow motion. The latter movie, the one that I found interesting,...

The Sword With No Name aka The Last Empress is set in the middle of the 19th century and tells the story of the Korean empress Myeongseong (Su Ae) who falls in love with a common soldier/warrior (Jo Seung-woo) before her coronation who sticks to her side as her bodyguard later on.

MTime posted the first teaser trailer for the Korean martial-arts romance directed by Yong-gyun Kim (The Red Shoes, Wanee and Junah) yesterday which features a lot of impressive scenes…even though they decided not to use a original theme for the video

[See post to watch Flash video] The Sword with No Name will open on September 30th 2009 in Korea, but Showbox already acquired the distribution rights for the UK.

[via MTime & AsiaMediaWiki]...