What causes the change is the plight of her son (Won Bin), a simple, love-smothered boy who is accused, on flimsy testimony, of killing a local girl.

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Outside the rarified realm of high-end matchmakers, of course, love is simple and everyone lives happily ever after.

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Equally if not more important has been a change in plot, from the traditional martial violence, simple noble samurai defeating evildoers themes, to more character-driven and sympathetic themes, including love stories or stories of daily life conflict within the social constraints of the Edo period.

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