The Housemaid (1960)
Hanyo (original title)Reference View | Change View
- Not Rated
- 1h 49min
- Crime, Drama
- 03 Nov 1960 (South Korea)
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Jin Kyu Kim | ... |
Dong-sik Kim
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Jeung-nyeo Ju | ... |
Mrs. Kim
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Eun-shim Lee | ... |
Myung-sook
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Aeng-ran Eom | ... |
Kyung-hee Cho
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Seon-ae Ko | ... |
Seon-young Kwak
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Sook-Rang Wang |
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Seok-je Kang |
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Jeong-ok Na |
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| Ahn Sung-ki | ... |
Chang-soon Kim
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Yoo-ri Lee | ... |
Ae-soon Kim
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Jeong-hee Ok |
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Ok-joo Le |
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Nam-hyeon Choi |
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Bang-Choon Nam |
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Seok-geun Jo | ... |
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Man Kim |
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Directed by
| Kim Ki-young | ||
Written by
| Kim Ki-young | ... | () |
Music by
| Sang-gi Han | ||
Cinematography by
| Deok-jin Kim | ||
Editing by
| Young-Keun Oh | ||
Art Direction by
| Seok-in Park | ||
Production Companies
Distributors
- Carlotta Films (2012) (France) (theatrical)
- Korean Film Archive (2009) (South Korea) (DVD)
- The Criterion Collection (2013) (United States) (DVD)
- The Criterion Collection (2013) (United States) (Blu-ray) (DVD)
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- HFR (digital restoration)
Storyline
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In the 60s in Korea, the piano teacher Mr. Kim works in a factory giving music classes to the workers. When he receives a love letter from the student Miss Kwak, he delivers the letter to the supervisor and the worker is suspended for three days. Mr. Kim is a family man, married with two children, the girl Ae-Soon and the boy Chang-Soon, and he has just built and moved to a bigger house of his own. His wife Mrs. Kim also works too much at a sewing machine and they need a housemaid to help her in the housework. Mr. Kim asks Kwak's best friend, Miss Kyung Hee Cho, who is his private student of piano, to help him to find a housemaid. Miss Cho invites an unstable and unbalanced young woman to work for Mr. and Mrs. Kim and she introduces the housemaid to the family. Mr. Kim hires the youth and brings her to the household. But soon she behaves in a strange way, snooping Mr. Kim's private classes until the night that she seduces Mr. Kim and they have intercourse. The housemaid gets pregnant and uses her condition to press Mr. Kim. When she provokes a miscarriage, she blackmails Mr. Kim leading to the family's destruction. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
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Did You Know?
| Trivia | The film was suppose to finish around 1:48:13. However, the shocking finale was considered to be too extreme for its time's public hence the unfitting cut after the original ending was added in post-production. See more » |
| Goofs | At c.89 minutes the girl, Ae-Soon, nimbly and athletically gets out of bed surprisingly quickly for a young lass needing crutches. See more » |
| Movie Connections | Featured in The Taste of Money (2012). See more » |
| Quotes |
Dong-sik Kim:
What does the law state about a man who cheats on his wife? Lyu: [laughs] Sometimes he can get a lighter sentence than for a traffic violation. Once his wife forgives him, he's acquitted. Just as you wouldn't tell your son you're a murderer of a thief, even between couples some things should be kept secret. See more » |