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The Housemaid is a sud coréen film of genre Drama directed by Kim Ki-young with Ahn Sung-ki
The Housemaid (1960)
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Add to a movie listThe Housemaid (하녀, Hanyeo) is a 1960 black-and-white Korean film. It was directed by Kim Ki-young and starred 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". This was the first film in Kim's Housemaid trilogy followed by Woman of Fire. The film was remade in 2010 by director Im Sang-soo.
Synopsis
The film is a domestic horror thriller telling of a family's destruction by the introduction of a sexually predatory femme fatale into the household. A piano composer has just moved into a two-story house with his wife and two children. When his pregnant wife becomes exhausted from working at a sewing machine to support the family, the composer hires a housemaid to help with the work around the house. The new housemaid behaves strangely, catching rats with her hands, spying on the composer, seducing him and eventually becoming pregnant by him.Actors
Ahn Sung-ki
(Kim Chang-soon)
Kim Jin-kyu
(Kim Dong-sik)
Lee Eun-shim
(Oh Myeong-sook)
Ju Jeung-ryu
(Mrs. Kim)
Um Aing-ran
(Cho Kyung-hee)
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, 1h38Directed by Kim Ki-young
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, 1h52Directed by Kim Ki-young
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, 1h40Directed by Kim Ki-young
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