A composer and his wife are thrown into turmoil when a housemaid becomes more than they bargained for.
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Cast
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Jin Kyu Kim | ... | Dong-sik Kim |
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Jeung-nyeo Ju | ... | Mrs. Kim |
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Eun-shim Lee | ... | Myung-sook |
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Aeng-ran Eom | ... | Kyung-hee Cho |
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Seon-ae Ko | ... | Seon-young Kwak |
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Sook-Rang Wang | ||
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Seok-je Kang | ||
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Jeong-ok Na | ||
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Yoo-ri Lee | ... | Ae-soon Kim |
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Jeong-hee Ok | ||
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Ok-joo Le | ||
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Nam-hyeon Choi | ||
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Bang-Choon Nam | ||
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Seok-geun Jo | ... | (as Seok-Geun Cho) |
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In the 60s in Korea, the piano teacher Mr. Kim works in a factory giving music classes to the workers. When he receives a love letter from the student Miss Kwak, he delivers the letter to the supervisor and the worker is suspended for three days. Mr. Kim is a family man, married with two children, the girl Ae-Soon and the boy Chang-Soon, and he has just built and moved to a bigger house of his own. His wife Mrs. Kim also works too much at a sewing machine and they need a housemaid to help her in the housework. Mr. Kim asks Kwak's best friend, Miss Kyung Hee Cho, who is his private student of piano, to help him to find a housemaid. Miss Cho invites an unstable and unbalanced young woman to work for Mr. and Mrs. Kim and she introduces the housemaid to the family. Mr. Kim hires the youth and brings her to the household. But soon she behaves in a strange way, snooping Mr. Kim's private classes until the night that she seduces Mr. Kim and they have intercourse. The housemaid gets pregnant ... Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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korean noir | master maid relationship | piano | factory | housemaid |Parents Guide:
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Country:
South KoreaLanguage:
KoreanRelease Date:
3 November 1960 (South Korea) See more »Also Known As:
The Housemaid See more »Filming Locations:
Seoul, South KoreaCompany Credits
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Black and WhiteAspect Ratio:
1.55 : 1
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Hanyo was the first and the last film Eun-shim Lee, who plays Myung-sook in this film, starred in. The public hated immoral Myung-sook so much that no director hired her after this film. See more »Goofs
With the exception of some authentic close-ups, the piano playing, throughout the film, is very poorly mimed; with piano playing and piano teaching such an important part of the plot this seems rather surprising. See more »On IMDb TV, you can catch Hollywood hits and popular TV series at no cost. Select any poster below to play the movie, totally free!
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When I first watched this I thought 'what is this film'? I mean, all the characters are over the top, the emotions were so unreal, the situations so stupid (and often hilarious when it was intended to be to serious) that I didn't know what to feel. I was in serious doubt that this film could have been a Korean classic! Then the last 5 minutes changed everything you felt about the film and it all made sense! The film is indeed a classic and worth watching!
It's about a man and how one mistake in his life caused so much death and sadness in his family. It goes through various surreal situations which made me laugh. There seemed to be some frustration that I felt since the actors were like in a comic book yet portrayed a serious topic which shouldn't have been funny at all, yet you laugh anyway...