A Flower in Hell (1958)

Original title

지옥화

Directed by

Shin Sang-ok

Genre

drama film

Country

South Korea

Runtime

1h 27m

Rated

15

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 16 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman prostitutes herself to survive in postwar South Korea. Her life gets entangled with a man who tries to save her from her circumstances.

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What happens

A Flower in Hell (Korean: 지옥화; RR: Jiokhwa) is a 1958 South Korean film directed by Shin Sang-ok. For her performance in the 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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