The Night Owl

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Movie: The Night Owl (English title) / Owl (literal title)
Revised romanization: Olbbaemi
Hangul: 올빼미
Director: An Tae-Jin
Writer: Hyun Gyu-Ri, An Tae-Jin
Producer: Lee Gang-Jin
Cinematographer: Kim Tae-Kyung
Release Date: November 23, 2022
Runtime: 118 min.
Distributor: Next Entertainment World
Language: Korean
Country: South Korea

Plot Synopsis by AsianWiki Staff ©

Kyeong-Soo (Ryoo Joon-Yeol) is a blind acupuncturist. He is unable to see anything during the daytime, but, strangely, he is able to see like a normal person at night. One evening, Kyeong-Soo happens to witness the death of the crown prince. This death leads King Injo (Yu Hae-Jin) into madness. Kyeong-Soo attempts to reveal the truth behind the crown prince’s death.

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Ryoo Joon-Yeol	Yu Hae-Jin	Choi Moo-Sung	Cho Seong-Ha	Park Myoung-Hoon
Cheon Kyeong-Soo	King Injo	Lee Hyung-Ik	Nobleman Cho	Man-Sik



Kim Sung-Cheol	Ahn Eun-Jin	Jo Yun-Seo
Crown Prince Sohyeon	Soyong Jo	Kang-Bin

Additional Cast Members:

Jo Yun-Seo - Kang-Bin
Lee Joo-Won - Suk-Chul
Kim Ye-Eun - Court Lady Seo
Jung Suk-Won - royal guard
Kim In-Kwon - royal guard
Ryoo Sung-Hyun - senior lawmaker
Shin Mun-Sung - administrator
Kim Seung-Tae - vassal 1
Moon Seung-Bae - vassal 2
Lee Joong-Hyun - vassal 3
Yang Hee-Myoung - physician 1
Jang Tae-Min - physician 2
Park Hee-Eun - royal food taster
Bae Yong-Geun - apothecary
Jo Kyoung-Hyun - meat seller
Ahn Seong-Bong - Qing envoy
Ko Han-Min - guard 1 leading Kyung-Soo
An Seok-Hyun - Prince Soongsun
Kim Hyun-Woo - guard 4
Jung Dong-Geun - King Injo's eunuch
Shin Chi-Young - King Injo's eunuch 2
Shin Ha-Jun - King Injo's eunuch 3
Lee Young-Suk - King Injo getting acupuncture stand-in
Kim Do-Won - Kyung-Jae
Kang Jin-Hwi - teacher
Seo Mun-Ho - lawmaker 3
Son Kyoung-Won - palace gate guard 1
Song Dong-Hwan - palace gate guard 2
Kim Saet-Byul - female physician Ae-Jung
Ahn Se-Ho - last eunuch
Ryoo Ji-Hoon - scholar 1
Yoon Jin-Young - physical examination guard
Lee Dong-Hee - patient 1
Kim Tae-Joon - stroke patient
Kim Sang-Wook - eunuch getting acupuncture
Noh Jung-Hyun - man 1

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Awards

2023 (44th) Blue Dragon Film Awards - November 24, 2023
- Best New Director (An Tae-Jin)
- Best Cinematography & Lighting
- Best Film Editing
2023 (59th) Daejong Film Awards - November 15, 2023
- Best Screenplay Hyun Gyu-Ri, (An Tae-Jin)
- Best New Director (An Tae-Jin)
- Best Editing
2023 (59th) BaekSang Arts Awards - April 28, 2023
- Best Film
- Best Actor (Ryoo Joon-Yeol )
- Best New Director (An Tae-Jin)

Comments

KST Jul 23 2023 8:17 am I watched this because of Ryoo joon yeol. His acting is superb here.

Laura May 25 2023 1:53 pm I watched this after I found junyeol became best actor ,well he is amazing the way he protrayed blind accupuncturist is aamazing his facial expressions so good . I read about real crown pronce its sad that such a good prince got murdered .

Xoxo May 04 2023 3:21 am Joon yeol and hae jin amazing actor and both are my fav actors. Potrayed the character very well Expected to be the best film Love this movie very much. Congrats joon yeol for the best actor 2023! Hope to see another movie or drama this year too. Keep up the good work!

Ottokhe Apr 12 2023 6:40 pm Seina you just repeat what the synopsis said, smh.

Btw, as of april2023 this movie has bad subtitle so unless you know korean you can't appreciate this brilliant movie. I know the protagonist is half blind and he need darkness to see but the whole film is so dark that the audience can't see anything. I hope they balance that issue while editing. Another is casting of king injo, they purposely cast a very un-oppa actor because they want the viewers to hate the character of the king, that's why they CAN'T cast pretty actor.

seina Feb 23 2023 1:47 am great movie, amazing casts and well written storyline.. it actually based on true story of Kingdom of Joseon history about the sudden death of Crown Prince Sohyeon after he returned to Joseon from Qing as hostage. The real story is the Crown Prince found dead in the King Injo's room with his head blooded, some historical says he's poisoned.

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