Hanyo (1960)

Calificación de los usuarios:

8.1/10   

Director:

Ki-young Kim

Guionista:

Ki-young Kim (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

3 noviembre 1960 (South Korea)

Plot:

The hero, a composer, has an immoral relation to a maid. The maid is jealous of his wife and gives vent to her bad temper to him. When the hero rebukes her, she asks him for dying together for love. |

Comentarios de los usuarios:

A very shocking movie, considering it was made in Korea in 1960(!)

Reparto

Eun-shim Lee
Jeung-nyeo Ju
Jin Kyu Kim
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Sung-kee Ahn
Aeng-ran Eom
Seok-je Kang
Seon-ae Ko
Jeong-ok Na

También conocida como:

La criada (International: Spanish title) [es]
The Housemaid (Argentina) (festival title) [es]

Duración:

104 min (restored print) | Argentina:110 min (Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente)

País:

South Korea

Idioma:

Coreano

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

Argentina:13

Compañía:

Kuk Dong

Conexiones de Película:

Seguido por Hwanyeo (1970)

A very shocking movie, considering it was made in Korea in 1960(!)

I bought this film on NTSC-VHS format from an online Korean business called koreapop.com. The copy evidently had been put together from two or three diffrent copies of the film, since some parts of the film looked like they were in better shape than others, and also there were English subtitles in some parts, but not most others. (Note that I bought this film knowing that it would be in Korean, with no subtitles).

This movie features what is probably the first scene in cinematic history where a woman rapes a man- a whole 25 years before Isabella Rosellini raped Kyle McCallahan in "Blue Velvet"! As a Korean movie, it's story challenges traditional Korean propriety. The housemaid character is a castrating hose-beast: Not exactly the kind of Korean woman portrayed in most Korean movies made then or now. Director Kim Kiyoung tends to turn the conventional Korean-movie plotline on its head in this movie, since there is no real "happy-ending", in fact, things just seem to get worse and worse. The only other Korean movie similar to it in this sense, is the recently released "Kilimanjaro" (also an EXCELLENT film). This movie is indeed a Korean-movie classic. It's just too bad that the remaining copies of such classic Korean films are not given the best of care, since many, like this one, are in fairly rough shape. I hope that the Koreans will take more pride in their cinematic history and prepare for better archival storage and restoration of their nation's film legacy.