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A Woman After a Killer Butterfly is a film of genre Drama directed by Kim Ki-young with Namkoong Won
A Woman After a Killer Butterfly (1978)
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Add to a movie listKiller Butterfly (살인나비를 쫓는 여자 - Salin nabireul jjonneun yeoja lit. A Woman Chasing a Killer Butterfly) is a 1978 South Korean film directed by Kim Ki-young.
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A melodrama about a man who survives an attempted double suicide with a stranger while picnicing with friends. He goes on a cave expedition for a famous archaeologist where he discovers a skeleton several thousand years old. He meets the spirit of the skeleton in a dream, and then becomes romantically involved with the archeologist's daughter.Actors
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Suggestions of similar film to A Woman After a Killer Butterfly
There are 36 films with the same actors, 31 films with the same director, 76867 with the same cinematographic genres (including 36 with exactly the same 4 genres than A Woman After a Killer Butterfly), to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.If you liked A Woman After a Killer Butterfly, you will probably like those similar films :
Water Lady (1979)
, 1h57Directed by Kim Ki-young
Genres Drama
Actors Kim Ja-ok, Lee Hwa-si, Park Am
Rating63%
A literary drama telling the story of Jin-seok, a Korean veteran of the Vietnam War, and his marital life. His wife Sun-ok, runs a company that makes goods from bamboo. Her habitual stutter is passed on to their son. Jin-seok has an affair with Chu-wol, a femme fatale who schemes to ruin his family. Jin-seok manages to escape the bad influence of Chu-wol, and his son's stutter is cured.
Ieoh Island (1977)
, 1h50Directed by Kim Ki-young
Genres Drama
Actors Lee Hwa-si, Park Am
Rating65%
When a man from an island ruled by women disappears, the man suspected of killing him investigates his past.
Soil (1978)
, 2h5Directed by Kim Ki-young
Genres Drama
Actors Lee Hwa-si, Park Am
During the Japanese occupation, a Korean lawyer devotes his work to rural development, believing this is the only way to preserve Korean identity. Interpreting these actions as anti-Japanese, the Japanese authorities imprison the lawyer for five years. When he is released, he finds his wife continuing his work.
Woman of Fire (1971)
, 1h38Directed by Kim Ki-young
Genres Drama, Horror, Crime
Actors Namkoong Won, Youn Yuh-jung, Choi Moo-ryong
Rating65%
A variation on Kim's classic The Housemaid (1960). The lives of a composer and his wife, who live on a chicken farm, are thrown into turmoil when a femme fatale joins their household.
Elegy of Ren (1969)
, 1h43Directed by Kim Ki-young
Genres Drama, Action, Romance
Actors Kim Jin-kyu, Kim Ji-mee, Park Am
A wartime melodrama about an artist and a woman who helps him to paint.
Twilight Train (1957)
Directed by Kim Ki-young
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Do Kum-bong, Kim Ji-mee, Ahn Sung-ki, Park Am
A melodrama about love and conflict in an orphanage.
Insect Woman (1972)
, 1h50Directed by Kim Ki-young
Genres Drama, Horror
Actors Youn Yuh-jung, Namkoong Won, Park Am
Rating61%
A melodrama about a professor under psychiatric care because of a mental breakdown due to the stress brought on by an extramarital affair.
Yangsan Province (1955)
, 1h30Directed by Kim Ki-young
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Kim Seung-ho, Park Am
Rating60%
The film is a historical melodrama about a high government official who wants to marry a woman who is engaged to marry another man.
Promise of the Flesh (1975)
, 1h35Directed by Kim Ki-young
Genres Drama
Actors Kim Ji-mee, Lee Jung-gil, Park Am
Rating64%
A melodrama about a female prisoner who meets a man while on leave to visit her mother's grave. Not knowing that the man is a thief, she promises to meet him at a park two years later, after she is released from prison.
Goryeojang (1963)
, 1h30Directed by Kim Ki-young
Genres Drama
Actors Kim Jin-kyu, Ju Jeung-ryu, Park Am, Jeon Ok
Rating71%
The film tells the story of a poor farm-worker who, according to local tradition, must take his 70-year-old mother into the mountains to die. Deciding to break the custom, he instead returns home with his mother. The Japanese films, The Ballad of Narayama (1958) (Keisuke Kinoshita) and The Ballad of Narayama (1983) (Shohei Imamura) deal with a similar subject.