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Filmed on location in Korea, Hapkido Essentials offers a detailed lesson plan and a comprehensive overview of the self-defence martial art. Hapkido Essentials have Grandmaster Myung Yong Kim and Grandmaster Chang Soo Lee demonstrate the basic hapkido techniques including stance, danjun breathing, kicks and more over to vital point attack points and advanced aero kicks.

At the height of the 16th-century Chosun Dynasty, a pair of rural male actors—boisterous, macho Jang-seng and quiet, feminine Gong-gil—travel to Seoul and team up with a struggling acting troupe. When their irreverent show—complete with enough bawdy humor and gender-bending to make a contemporary audience blush—mocks the famously hedonistic king, they get more than they bargained for. After being promptly arrested, they’re given a chance to spare themselves if they can make the king laugh. To everyone’s surprise, the ecstatic monarch loves the show and names the actors official court jesters, giving them more extravagant food and shelter than they’d ever imagined. But the king’s attentiveness to Gong-gil makes it quickly apparent that humor isn’t the only thing motivating his generosity. The king’s mistress, the country’s ministers and Jang-seng soon grow suspicious, and jealousy and anger spring from all sides.

Four insomniac med school students are lured into a neuroscience experiment that spirals out of control and must find a way out before it’s too late.