The Housemaid
A torrent of sexual obsession, revenge, and betrayal is unleashed under one roof in this venomous melodrama from South Korean master Kim Ki-young. Immensely popular in its home country when it was released, The Housemaid is the thrilling, at times jaw-dropping story of the devastating effect an unstable housemaid has on the domestic cocoon of a bourgeois, morally dubious music teacher, his devoted wife, and their precocious young children. Grim and taut yet perched on the border of the absurd, Kim’s film is an engrossing tale of class warfare and familial disintegration that has been hugely influential on the new generation of South Korean filmmakers.
The Housemaid was restored in 2008 by the Korean Film Archive (KOFA), in association with The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project and HFR-Digital Film laboratory. Additional restoration funded by Armani, Cartier, Qatar Airways, and Qatar Museum Authority.
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Collector's Set
Cast
- Kim Jin-kyu
- Piano teacher
- Ju Jeung-nyeo
- His wife
- Lee Eun-shim
- Housemaid
- Um Aeng-ran
- Miss Cho
- Ok Gyeon-hee
- Miss Kwak
- Lah Ok-ju
- Factory worker
- Go Seon-ae
- Dormitory dean
- Ahn Seong-gi
- Chang-soon, the son
- Lee Yu-ri
- Ae-soon, the daughter
- Cho Seok-geun
- Driver
- Nam Bang-choon
- TV technician
Credits
- Director
- Kim Ki-young
- Produced by
- Kim Ki-young
- Written by
- Kim Ki-young
- Screenplay
- Kim Jeong-sook
- Executive producer
- Ahn Hwayoung
- Cinematography
- Kim Deok-jin
- Lighting
- Ko Hae-jin
- Editor
- Oh Young-geun
- Art director
- Park Seok-in
- Music
- Han Sang-gi
- Assistant directors
- Jeon Eung-joo
- Assistant directors
- Kim Dae-hee
- Effects
- Lee Sang-man
