Disc 1 : BD

- Commentary with Director & Cast
- Behind Story
- CG & DI
- EPK

Disc 2 : DVD (Region Code : 3)

- Making
- Behind Story
- Special Music Video

Lee Myeong-se, director of the 1999 hit action movie "Nowhere To Hide", is
back with a period piece after a six-year hiatus. And it seems that the genre
presents no problems for him to show off his unique filming style.

``I think there are some stereotyped images about period films. I didn't care
much about historical research, but rather I tried to use my imagination,''
Lee said Tuesday during a news conference after the preview screening of
his new film ``Duelist'' at Yongsan CGV theater in Seoul.

In the detective action film, many scenes were given a modern touch.
Characters wear ``hanbok,'' or traditional clothes, but they were modified in
many ways. For example, they had more colors and some coat strings were
placed at the backside of the costumes to make moving easier. Classic
music is also often used in many scenes.

But Lee said that he was more concerned about how to depict the
complicated emotions of the two main characters and the rhythmical
movements of the action scenes.

``I want people to focus on the movements of the characters rather than the
fighting action scenes. I tried to show their emotions and the film's story
through their movements,'' Lee said.

Starring Ha Ji-won, Kang Dong-won and Ahn Seong-gi, the movie is based
on a novel about a female detective in the Choson Kingdom.

Ha plays a tomboy detective named Nam-sun who investigates the forgery
of coins but confronts inner conflicts as she falls in love with an assassin
(Kang) involved in the crime while chasing him.

As the director put an emphasis on the rhythmical movements of characters,
the main actors usually had to perform their own stunts, including the more
dangerous ones. They recalled that the intensive physical training they had
to go through, including learning to tango and learning martial arts, was the
most difficult parts of filming.

``For me it was really hard to shoot scenes involving me sliding and
jumping. Particularly, I can't jump, but as the director forced me to do so, I
had to jump from a tree and wall,'' Ha said.

Ha previously played a policewoman in the popular period television drama
``Damo,'' which was also based on the same novel, but she said in the new
film she and the director tried to create an entirely new character.

``The director helped me find my strengths while we discussed the
personality of my character, which I think will also help me in my future
films,'' Ha said.

With a production cost of 7.8 billion won, the shooting was mostly done in a
huge outdoor set measuring 10,000 pyong (33,000 square meters) inside the
Seoul Studio Complex in Namyangju, Kyonggi Province, which recreates a
traditional market of the Choson Kingdom.

The film has already sold its Japanese distribution rights to the film importer
Comstock at $5 million (5.1 billion won), the highest price paid for a South
Korean movie ever. Comstock reportedly plans to release the film in Japan at
the same time as it is released in Korea.