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Poster for A Flower in Hell (1958)
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Hangul | |
Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | Jiokhwa |
McCune–Reischauer | Chiok‘wa |
Directed by | Shin Sang-ok |
Produced by | Shin Sang-ok |
Written by | Lee Jeong-seon |
Starring |
Choi Eun-hee Kim Hak |
Music by | Son Mok-in |
Cinematography | Gang Beom-gu |
Edited by | Kim Yeong-hui |
Distributed by | Seoul Films Co., Ltd. |
Release date
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Running time
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86 minutes |
Country | South Korea |
Language | Korean |
A 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.
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.