Synopsis: Middle-aged composer Dong Sik has his hands full trying to provide for his pregnant wife and two kids. He hires a housemaid to help out around the house, but the strange and sultry young woman has other plans in mind as she sets out to seduce Dong Sik. Tragedy begets tragedy, as wife and mistress face off in increasingly manipulative and horrifying manners for power over the household and their clueless lover.
Reviews:
koreanfilm.org |
BeyondHollywood.com |
Filmbrain |
IMDb (external reviews)| Quote: |
A consensus pick as one of the top three Korean films of all time, Kim Ki-young's masterpiece The Housemaid occupies a place all its own within Golden Age Korean cinema. A domestic thriller that builds in intensity right up until its startling resolution, the film doubles as a manic tour-de-force and a cutting satire of the aspirations and values of modern society. -- Darcy Paquet, KoreanFilm.org |
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0150980/IMDb Rating: 8.1/10 (180 votes)
Directed by: Kim Ki-young
Cast:
Eun-shim Lee
Jeung-nyeo Ju
Jin Kyu Kim
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Title: Hanyo (1960)
AKA The Housemaid
Source: DVD / NTSC / Korean Federation of Film Archives
Size: 1.565.730.680 (1/3 DVDR)
Runtime: 01:51:06
Format: MKV
Video Codec: H264 (x264 rev.1247M)
Video Bitrate: 1651 kbps
Resolution: 616x476 (Anamorphic, displayed at 1.53 AR)
Aspect Ratio: 1.53 (SAR: 32/27)
Frame rate: 23.976 fps
Audio Codec: AC3 (2 channels)
Audio Bitrate: 224 kbps
Sampling Rate: 48 KHz
Language: Korean
Subtitles (muxed in): SRT: English
VobSub: French and Japanese
SA: HP @ Level 4.1
Notes: Hanyo (The Housemaid) has been restored digitally
by the Korean Film Archive (KOFA) with the
support of the World Cinema Foundation. The original negative of the
film was found in 1982 with two missing reels, 5 and 8. In 1990 an
original release print with hand-written English subtitles was found
and used to complete the copy. This surviving print was highly damaged,
and the English subtitles occupied almost half of the frame area. The
long and complex restoration process has involved the use of a special
subtitle-removal software and included flicker and grain reduction,
scratch and dust removal and color grading.
...certain indoor sequences look a little like rain with the heavier
scratches appearing as giving the film a very work look. ....There are
also a few sequences that 'jump' where the frames were obviously
missing or too damaged to utilize. -- DVDBeaver.com
Aside from the two problematic reels mentioned above, the digitally
remastered image looks very pleasing, considering that the original is
fifty years old. -- twitchfilm.net |
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