Scarlet Innocence (2014)

Small-town girl Deokee is abandoned by university professor Hak-kyu after a lusty affair, and vengefully approaches him 8 years later when he starts suffering from blindness.

Director:

Pil-sung Yim (as Pil-Sung Yim)

Writers:

Yoon-Mi Jang, Pil-sung Yim (as Pil-Sung Yim)

Stars:

Jung Woo-sung, Esom, So-young Park

1 win & 3 nominations.

Cast

Credited cast:
Jung Woo-sung	...	Hak-kyu
Esom	...	Deokee / Se-jung (as Som E.)
So-young Park	...	Chungee
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Gwi-hwa Choi	...	Gambler
Kim Do-Yeon	...	Innkeeper
Do-won Jeong	...	Big man at gambling place (as Jung Do-Won)
Han Joo-Young	...	Ji-Eun
Hee-won Kim	...	Mr. Choi
Hyun-sook Kim	...	Student in novel club
Ja-yeong Kim
Chang-Hoon Lee	...	Dong-Woo
Sang-hwa Lee	...	Middle-aged man in novel club
Pal-Young Park	...	University President
Yun Se-ah	...	Cheong-yi's mom
Park So-dam	...	Cheong-Yi's friend at club

Storyline

20-year old Deokee's quiet small-town life gets exciting when a former university professor, Hak-kyu, moves in, running from a sexual harassment allegation. Mutual attraction leads the pair into a lusty affair but when the fall semester begins, Hak-kyu returns to his family in the city. Deokee refuses to let the relationship die, and a confrontation between them turns tragic when Hak-kyu's wife commits suicide. 8 years later, Hak-kyu, now blind and estranged from his daughter Chungee, befriends a new neighbor: Se-jung. He gladly accepts her help and Chungee becomes attached to her, neither realizing she is in fact Deokee and that she is on a quest to destroy them. Her plan sets off a vengeance-fueled chain of events that ultimately sets the three bitter, angry and desperate schemers on a twisting collision course with each other.

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Plot Keywords:

blind man | revenge | suicide | male nudity | female frontal nudity | 

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Taglines:

Love, lust and obsession

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Genres:

Drama | Romance | Thriller

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User Reviews

Good thriller - watch it to the end

A Korean thriller has a good unpredictable story. And unusually for this kind of Fatal Attraction type thriller there is a feel good ending. Jung Woo Sung plays a flawed professor of literature who is a womanizer. He embarks on an affair with a student in a small town. But things take a tragic twist that's quite unexpected. The next part has an interesting revenge plot. Finally a twist that makes everything feel good kind of. You get a lot of bang for your buck here - maybe a bit too much. The love scenes are too protracted.

Worth a watch even in this well trodden genre.

Details

Official Sites:

Official site [Japan]

Country:

South Korea

Language:

Korean

Release Date:

2 October 2014 (South Korea)

Also Known As:

Scarlet Innocence

Box Office

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$7,713

Company Credits

Production Co:

Animal Planet

Technical Specs

Runtime:

113 min

Color:

Color