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Eun-shim Lee, Jeung-nyeo Ju, Jin Kyu Kim, Lee Um-shim

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Unrated, 1 hr. 30 min.

Directed by: Ki-young Kim, Kim Ki-young

Release Date: January 1, 1960

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  • October 25, 2009
    Hanyo is a thriller crafted with the greatest expertise. You know where it's going, but you can't help but stared, open mouthed, at the journey it takes. Mr. Kim is the unluckiest lucky man in the world. He has women throwing themselves at him non-stop. Unfortunately, they are al...( read more)l a tad bonkers and also pretty dangerous. Leading the pack is his Housemaid, a little temptress with a good eye on how to eliminate a rat. The imagery is all very metaphorical, but hits such high levels of obviousness that it is also comically charming. It's rather tense, and also upsettingly painful to watch. In true thriller fashion, it builds to an over-the-top climax, but before you dismiss this as wild fantasy, you have to wait for one of the greatest cinematic punchlines of all time.
  • September 10, 2009
    What a fucking brutal (and delicious) film. This is sort of a domestic noir filled with greed, meanness, and lust. The story is not too different from what happens if the film within a film in Celine and Julie Go Boating, imposed on a bourgeois Korean family. It's a pretty overwr...( read more)ought melodrama but also quite funny in way that makes it all perfectly suited. Even the weird and didactic framing device is kind of unsettling. The score is pretty dated.
  • December 21, 2009
    Seriously, watching this film shocked the hell outta me in that I never knew such fine works of art was produced in South Korea at that time. This film is very well constructed and is imbued with such metaphorical and philosophical dialogue on the confusing dynamics that could ev...( read more)olve in a household, which is metaphorical for something deeper, something seen mostly in politics.
  • July 28, 2009
    LETTERBOX. Muchos aman esta película. La cinematografía y el trabajo de cámara son geniales, pero su melodrama es demasiado exagerado, misógino y redundante. / Many love this film. The cinematography and camerawork are great, but it's an exaggerated, mysogynistic and redundant m...( read more)elodrama.

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