A Flower in Hell

A Flower in Hell

Poster for A Flower in Hell (1958)
Hangul 지옥화
Hanja 地獄花
Revised Romanization Jiokhwa
McCune–Reischauer Chiok‘wa
Directed by Shin Sang-ok[1]
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 dates
  • April 20, 1958
Running time
 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.[2] 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.

Plot

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.[3]

Cast

Notes

  1. ↑ Infobox data from "The Flower in Hell (Ji-oghwa)(1958)". KMDb Korean Movie Database. Retrieved 2008-01-15. and Jiokhwa (1958) at the Internet Movie Database
  2. ↑ Paquet, Darcy. "A Flower in Hell (1958)". koreanfilm.org. Archived from the original on 31 January 2008. Retrieved 2008-01-15.
  3. ↑ Synopsis from "The Flower in Hell (Ji-oghwa)(1958)". KMDb Korean Movie Database. Retrieved 2008-01-15.
  4. ↑ Cast listing based on "지옥화 - The Flower in Hell (Ji-oghwa) (1958)" (in Korean). KMDb Korean Movie Database. Retrieved 2008-01-15.

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