Sunday, December 20, 2015

Drama Review - Scholar Who Walks the Night


Tortured heroes, forbidden romances and cartoonish villains are nothing new. There is a standard formula by which such stories operate by now and there is an ever faithful audience for them. This does not mean such stories need be repetitive, however, nor does it mean they need to be unentertaining. "Scholar Who Walks the Night" does not reach its end unscathed, but let us look into its efforts until that point.

Jo Yang-seon (Lee Yoo-bi) is a woman who disguises herself as a man in order to sell books and help her family. One day she meets Kim Seong-yeol (Lee Joon-ki), a vampire looking for an important book. Gwi (Lee Soo-hyeok) is a merciless vampire who has control of the palace and kills humans at will. Seong-yeol believes that the book he needs from Yang-seon can stop Gwi and end his reign and long history of murder and abuse.


Full Article: [HanCinema's Drama Review] "Scholar Who Walks the Night".

 
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