Villain and Widow
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| Hangul | 이층의 악당 |
| Revised Romanization | Yicheungui Akdang |
| Directed by | Son Jae-gon |
| Produced by | Choi Pyung-ho |
| Written by | Son Jae-gon |
| Starring |
Kim Hye-soo Han Suk-kyu |
| Music by | Kim Jun-seong Lee Jin-hee |
| Cinematography | Choi Sang-ho |
| Edited by | Shin Min-kyung |
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Sidus-Benex Cinema Fund1
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| Distributed by | Sidus FNH |
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Running time
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115 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean |
| Box office | US$$3,692,494 |
Villain and Widow (Hangul: 이층의 악당; RR: Yicheungui Akdang; lit. "Villain on the Second Floor") is a 2010 South Korean film written and directed by Son Jae-gon about a depressed widower who rents out a room to a suspicious man who claims to be a novelist.
Yeon-joo, a depressed widow, lives with her bad-tempered daughter, Seong-ah, who's an ex-child model but is now being bullied in school. Things become worse when she starts to experience financial problems. Now deep in debt, Yeon-joo decides to rent out a room in her house to a mysterious man named Chang-in who introduces himself as a novelist. Unbeknownst to her, Chang-in is a thief who's trying to get his hands on a set of Ming Dynasty tea utensils that her deceased husband stole.
In 2009, the film was given the Lotte Award and received US$8,550 in funding at the Asian Project Market (then-called Pusan Promotion Plan) of the 14th Busan International Film Festival.
Russell Edwards of Variety called it "amusing if overlong." James Mudge of Beyond Hollywood described it as "a breath of fresh air" that "[refuses] to comply with the usual tired genre clichés." Pierce Conran of Modern Korean Cinema wrote that it "transcends genre." Kyu Hyun Kim of Koreanfilm.org wrote that it is "a superbly intelligent and supremely witty piece of entertainment."
Kim Hye-soo received Best Actress nominations at the 48th Grand Bell Awards and the 32nd Blue Dragon Film Awards in 2011. She also won a Popular Star Award at the latter.
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