Lee Dong-wook fights his past in Tale of the Nine Tailed 1938

by tccolb

It’s another winning round of promos for tvN’s Tale of the Nine Tailed 1938, with a fast-paced new teaser along with two posters of our charismatic leads: Lee Dong-wook (Bad and Crazy), Kim So-yeon (Penthouse 3), Kim Bum (Ghost Doctor), and Ryu Kyung-soo (Glitch).

When our swashbuckling hero Lee Yeon (Lee Dong-wook) is summoned to the past, the fantasy-action’s new season has him re-face his younger brother and Yeon muses in their new poster’s tagline that his little Rang (Kim Bum) was ever the delinquent during this time period too.

But the beautifully illustrated poster is my favorite of the two, which showcases our three mystical frenemies: Yeon, Hong-joo (Kim So-yeon), and Moo-young (Ryu Kyung-soo). In the tagline, we learn that the trio had made an oath sometime even further in the past: “Let’s swear to it! To protect each other, no matter what happens.”

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The new teaser begins with our protagonist transported from present day and he narrates, “I’m Lee Yeon, this generation’s hero. But… out of all the time periods, why this one?” The text screens explain that, “the returned gumiho has landed in 1938,” and, in voiceover, Yeon is given a mission to fulfill.

We then cut to Yeon crash landing into a moving train, where he’s greeted with a “Long time no see, Fox” from a cheeky Hong-joo. But Hong-joo is no damsel in distress and quickly overtakes a bothersome Jo Dal-hwan (Why Her), with nary a scratch to her gorgeous self.

As if hearing the audience, Yeon continues in voiceover, “What was my past self from this time period doing, you ask?” We then cut to the 1938 version of Yeon, wallowing and despairing that Ah-eum hasn’t reincarnated yet. Present day Yeon quickly turns away, embarrassed.

Yeon has bigger things to worry about anyway, and while defending himself against each new attacker, he wonders why there’s so many people trying to kill him in the 1930s. In the sequence, we catch a glimpse of Rang and Moo-young, in addition to Hwang Hee (Today’s Webtoon), Kim Yong-ji (Somebody), and Ha Do-kwon (Today’s Webtoon). The teaser then closes as Yeon fires up his gumiho power, narrating that a time of chaos is starting again.

With production continuing under Season 1’s writer Han Woo-ri and PD Kang Shin-hyo, tvN’s Tale of the Nine Tailed 1938 premieres next month on May 6 in the weekend slot.