Connection
The Flower in Hell is a sud coréen film of genre Drama directed by Shin Sang-ok with Choi Eun-hee
The Flower in Hell (1958)
지옥화, Jiokhwa
If you like this film, let us know!
Add to a movie listA Flower in Hell (지옥화 - Jiokhwa) is a 1958 South Korean film directed by Shin Sang-ok. For her performance in this film, Shin's wife, Choi Eun-hee was given the Best Actress award at the 2nd Buil Film Awards. During the Korean War, director Shin Sang-ok had shared an apartment with a prostitute in order to live more comfortably rather than sharing a one-room evacuation apartment with several families, giving him insight in the subject of the film.
Synopsis
A young man comes to Seoul from the country in search of his older brother, who turns out to be making a living with a group of thieves who boost goods from a U.S. Army base and sell them on the black market. Both brothers become romantically involved with the same prostitute.Actors
Choi Eun-hee
(Sonia)
Comments
Leave comment :
Suggestions of similar film to The Flower in Hell
There are 8 films with the same actors, 18 films with the same director, 66874 with the same cinematographic genres (including 8649 with exactly the same 2 genres than The Flower in Hell), to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.If you liked The Flower in Hell, you will probably like those similar films :
Rice (1963)
Directed by Shin Sang-ok
Genres Drama
Actors Shin Young-kyun, Choi Eun-hee, Namkoong Won
Rating63%
To the Last Day (1960)
Directed by Shin Sang-ok
Genres Drama
Actors Choi Eun-hee, Kim Jin-kyu, Namkoong Won, Shin Seong-il
Rating32%
Mother and a Guest (1961)
, 1h43Directed by Shin Sang-ok
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Choi Eun-hee, Do Kum-bong, Kim Jin-kyu, Shin Young-kyun, Heo Jang-kang
Rating68%
An artist from Seoul visits the widow of a deceased friend in the countryside. The relationship between the friend's wife, her mother and the artist is depicted with reference to their concerns about social disapproval.
Bound by Chastity Rule (1962)
Directed by Shin Sang-ok
Genres Drama
Actors Choi Eun-hee, Shin Young-kyun
Rating68%
A melodrama based on a novel. A widow in an aristocratic family has an affair with a servant and bears him a son. The widow's in-laws drive the servant and his son away. As a man, the widow's son comes to visit her, but, bound by the custom that she must remain celibate after her husband's death, she cannot acknowledge him.
Deaf Sam Yong (1964)
, 1h26Directed by Shin Sang-ok
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about disabilities
Actors Kim Jin-kyu, Choi Eun-hee, Park Noh-sik, Do Kum-bong
Rating66%
A deaf farmhand is in love with the landlord's daughter-in-law.
The Phantom Queen (1967)
Directed by Shin Sang-ok
Genres Drama
Actors Choi Eun-hee, Kim Jin-kyu, Park Noh-sik
Towards then end of the Goryeo Dynasty, King Gongmin, grieving for the death of Queen Noguk, gives power to a corrupt and lecherous monk.
Red Scarf (1964)
, 1h40Directed by Shin Sang-ok
Genres Drama, War, Action, Romance
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Shin Young-kyun, Choi Eun-hee, Choi Moo-ryong, Kim Jin-kyu, Namkoong Won, Park Am
Rating75%
The film is set in 1952 during the Korean War, and many Republic of Korea fighter pilots have fallen in the service of the nation. Of those that remain one of the bravest and best is Major Na Gwan-jung, in the air he is cool and level headed, and directly and swiftly dispatches the enemy with a minimum of complication. On the ground he spends his time drinking with his comrades, the vagaries of life and death in wartime has led to the pilots adopting a live for the moment approach to life.
Pulgasari (1985)
, 1h35Directed by Shin Sang-ok
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Action, Horror
Themes Kaiju films, Films about magic and magicians, Giant monster films, Disaster films
Rating53%
In feudal Korea, during the Goryeo Dynasty, a king controls the land with an iron fist, subjecting the peasantry to misery and starvation. An old blacksmith who was sent to prison creates a tiny figurine of a monster by making a doll of rice. When it comes into contact with the blood of the blacksmith's daughter, the creature springs to life, becoming a giant metal-eating monster named Pulgasari.
Prince Daewon (1968)
Directed by Shin Sang-ok
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Actors Shin Young-kyun, Kim Ji-mee, Heo Jang-kang, Park Am
A historical drama depicting power struggles in the last days of the Joseon Dynasty.
Prince Yeonsan (1961)
Directed by Shin Sang-ok
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Actors Shin Young-kyun, Shin Seong-il, Ju Jeung-ryu, Heo Jang-kang, Kim Jin-kyu, Do Kum-bong
Rating70%
A historical drama about Yeonsangun of Joseon as a prince trying to restore the status of his mother, the