Asian Film Review!: Gu Family Book

Gu Family Book

~구가의 서 ~

Is this a Korean Drama?: Yes

What Genre is this Drama?: Historical, Romance, a little 

comedy is in there too 

Is it New?: sort of, i'm only on the 5th episode- it is still airing

 but the series will almost end

Are There any famous characters?: Yes ! many ! Lee Seung Gi, 

Suzy and many more :D

How Many Episodes will be airing?: 24

Will it make you cry?: LOL yeah will so far it did 

Here are the main characters in the Series:

Lee Seung Gi As Choi Kang Chi

• Founded on the river banks in the forest he was taken in as a newborn to be raised in a good family
• You see Kang Chi get into alot of trouble as soon as his character is introduced- he is seen as the typical troublemaker or the odd one of his family
• aside from him making trouble he is very warm and pure at the heart and producers also display this with his acts of kindness towards the neighbourhood 
• He was often rejected and scolded especially by his mother 
• the typical "ugly" duckling *Lee Seung Gi you are no ugly :)

Bae Suzy As Dam Weo Wool

• Very courageous woman- she was one of most likely the very few people who was a female warrior.. most of them were all male
• her destiny changes when she meets a man that she was warned to avoid at all costs 
• Weo Wool comes off as mysterious- the producers and directors don't necessarily explain the story of her character in one go.. so throughout the Drama I think there will be more about Weo Wool that you will find out about

Sung Joon As Gon

• The Handsome and glamorous Sung Joon plays the assistant for Weo Wool as "Gon" 
• immediately we see that Gon has some feelings for Weo Wool- he doesn't say it directly but the directors capture some facial expressions whenever he or someone else mentions Weo Wool 
• He and Weo Wool are long time friends 

Lee Yoo-Bi As Park Chung Jo

• Lee Yoo-Bi plays the role of Park Chung Jo who is the daughter of a wealthy family who basically owns a hotel or Inn- 100 year Inn.
• The Park family are also the people who have brought in Choi Kang Chi
• She resembles the mother of Kang Chi: Pure, elegant, warm hearted, but also very brave and has courage in her
• There is a secret relationship that happens between Choi Kang Chi and Chung Jo but this doesn't last for long >:3

Synopsis

I don't know exactly the specific era of this drama but taking into account of the different clothes and lifestyle that it's probably in the earlier era's LOL. It starts off with the mythical Gumiho- Fox Demon who is surprising very friendly and is seen taking on the form of a human. He comes across a young lady who is a human and at first sight in 1000 years has he fallen in love. At this time the Young Lady was sold to the government where she was taken into a Korean Brothel House-She was saved and rescued by the Fox demon not knowing that he was a mythical creature and both eventually fall in love with each other. <--At this point the Young lady was considered a fugitive and was wanted by the Government.

So blinded by love that they didn't care for anything else in the world and they lived their lives in the forest. 2-3months had passed and many soldiers were still on the lookout for the Young lady who had escaped from the brothel. The Fox demon had soon revealed his true form after fighting off the soldiers where he was also seen by his lover. She was not able to accept him for who he was, calling him a monster and reported him to the police. Their Love was pure infatuation and was unstable- this ended their relationship however, inside the Young lady was life. She gave birth to a very healthy half Demon-half human, growing up he will face many challenges meet many new people and faces and also create new land lasting relationships.

Response

To be quite frank, I definitely did not expect a historical drama to be this good LOL. I never really liked historical drama's- their descriptions never were to my liking... maybe because the settings were in the the early era's but yeah. I feel like this drama really changed my perspective on them. Despite the emotional joyride right in the beginning of the show, there are many comedic reliefs especially when Seung Gi is introduced. I just really enjoy the drama overall 

the characters' roles were played very well...except for one character. The step mother of Seung Gi. I felt that her acting was very poor- her acting wasn't really too convincing for me personally. Other than that the characters were really well played out 

**This is a really good drama is your really unsure about watching 

Historical Korean Dramas***

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