Portrait of a Beauty

Release Date: 2008-11-13

Overview: Born to a family of established court painters, seven-year-old Yoon-jeong is a young girl gifted at painting. However, the pressure is on her brother to carry on the proud family tradition, as women aren’t allowed to become professional painters. While her brother trains to take his place in the court, Yoon-jeong helps him out by secretly painting for him. The little girl’s life is turned upside down when her brother kills himself. In order to preserve the family honor, she is forced to take her brother’s name and lives as a man. Yun-bok’s genius and talent captures the heart of another great master of the time, Kim Hong-do. But her daring depictions of women are condemned by the royal institute as obscene. Yun-bok meets Kang-mu and falls deeply in love. For the first time, she feels the strong desire to abandon everything she has built and simply be a woman in front of the man she loves. Kang-moo sacrifices all for his love as well.

Rating: 6.2 / 10

Cast

Kim Gyu-ri

as Shin Yun-bok

Kim Young-ho

as Kim Hong-do

Kim Nam-gil

as Kang-mu

Choo Ja-hyun

as Seol-hwa

Bo Ri

as Obscene entertainer 2

Crew

Kang Jong-ik - VFX Supervisor
Kim Min-su - Stunts
Kim Yun-suk - Props
Suryeon Han - Screenplay
Lee Seong-hun - Producer

Reviews

Alunauwie:

Portrait of a Beauty, adapted from Jung Myeong Kee’s novel The Painter of the Wind, offers a compelling tale about Yun Jeong, a female painter who disguises herself as a man in the rigid art world of ...