The Housemaid | |
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Hangul | 하녀 |
Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | Hanyeo |
McCune–Reischauer | Hanyŏ |
Directed by | Kim Ki-young |
Written by | Kim Ki-young |
Produced by | Kim Ki-young |
Starring |
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Cinematography | Kim Deok-jin |
Edited by | Kim Ki-young |
Music by | Han Sang-gi |
Distributed by | Kuk Dong Seki Trading Co. |
Release date |
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Running time | 108 minutes |
Country | South Korea |
Language | Korean |
Box office | $35,687[1] |
The Housemaid (Korean: 하녀; Hanja: 下女; RR: Hanyeo) is a 1960 South Korean film, produced, written and directed by Kim Ki-young. It stars Lee Eun-shim, Ju Jeung-nyeo and Kim Jin-kyu. It has been described in Koreanfilm.org as a "consensus pick as one of the top three Korean films of all time". It is the first film in Kim's Housemaid trilogy followed by Woman of Fire and Woman of Fire '82. The film was remade in 2010 by Im Sang-soo.
The film is a domestic horror, following the story of an upper-middle-class family falling into destruction due to the introduction of a sexually predatory femme fatale housemaid into the household.