The Red Shoes (2005 film)
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Promotional Movie Poster
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| Hangul | |
| Hanja | 신 |
| Revised Romanization | Bunhongshin |
| McCune–Reischauer | Bunhongsin |
| Directed by | Kim Yong-gyun |
| Produced by | Hyon-tae Park, Kwang-su Kim, Peter Kim, Shin Changgil |
| Written by | Kim Yong-gyun Ma Sang-Ryeol |
| Based on |
The Red Shoes by Hans Christian Andersen |
| Starring |
Kim Hye-soo, Kim Sung-soo Park Yeon-ah Go Soo-hee Lee Eol |
| Music by | Lee Byung-woo |
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103 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean |
| Box office | US$7,657,523 |
The Red Shoes (Hangul: 분홍신; Hanja: 粉紅신; RR: Bunhongshin) is a 2005 South Korean horror film written and directed by Kim Yong-gyun. Kim Yong-gyun was inspired by a fairy tale of same name by Hans Christian Andersen.
Sun-jae (Kim Hye-soo) leaves her unfaithful husband, Sung-joon (Lee Eol), and moves into an old apartment with her daughter, Tae-su (Park Yeon-ah). During Sun-jae's return home, she takes a pair of hot pink high heels she found in a subway car, only to discover that they are cursed. Her obsession grows, arousing envy and greed with mysterious, nightmarish visions. Even Tae-su and one of Sun-jae's friends, Kim Mi-hee (Go Soo-hee), fall victim to the power of the shoes, resulting in hysteria and theft. Mi-hee dies soon after she takes the shoes, and the shoes return to Tae-su(possibly inferring that she could be the reincarnation of Keiko).
With the help of her new boyfriend, In-cheol (Kim Sung-soo), Sun-jae tries to uncover the mystery behind the pink shoes before it kills her and Tae-su. She discovers that although the original owner of the shoes escape harm, the person who takes them will die with their feet chopped off. The mystery leads to an old woman who lives in a basement below Sun-jae. The old woman refuses to disclose any information, and they chase after her in the parking lot. She identifies Sun-jae as Oki, which confuses Sun-jae. It is revealed that in her youth during the last years of the Japanese occupation of Korea, the old woman was a servant for a young, prominent dancer named Keiko. Keiko, who was the daughter of a high-ranking officer, was blessed with pink shoes from her lover. Unfortunately, Keiko's rival named Oki was jealous of her talents and wanted the shoes for herself. She paid the old woman with a scarf to steal the shoes away from Keiko. Though she succeeded in stealing the shoes for Oki, the old woman watched her and Keiko fight over them at the photo shoot for a ballet advertisement. Then one night, a pregnant Keiko witnessed her lover and Oki having sex. When she ran off out of betrayal and grief, the man tried to stop Keiko. Fed up with being second and realizing the man loves Keiko, Oki grabbed a sharp weapon and viciously attacked her. Using the weapon, she killed Keiko and her unborn child. Oki then dumps her in an unmarked grave. She wasn't aware that the old woman had watched Keiko's murder unfold and laughed as she took the shoes for herself. Feeling guilt and grief for cheating on Keiko, the man refuses to dance with Oki during the performance, but had to. Keiko's ghost then got her revenge on both the man and Oki, leading to their deaths. The old woman warns Sun-jae the same fate that will befall her if she doesn't return the pink shoes to Keiko at once.
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