Tale of Cruelty Towards a Woman (1983) Korean erotica
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Original Korean title: YEOIN JANHOKSA MOULLEYA MOULLEYA [Spinning Tale of Cruelty to Women]
Also known as: THE SPINNING WHEEL and SPINNING A TALE OF ABUSE
director: Lee Du-Yong
starring: Won Mi-Kyung · Shin Yeong-Ryong · Moon Jeong-Suk · Choi Seong-Kwan
Young
Kil-rye comes from a respectable but poor family. As such, she is considered
'less valuable' within the respectable community. Kil-rye is married posthumously
to the deceased son of a powerful government official. Her life is a miserable
lonely existence. Now that she has 'served her purpose,' the father-in-law
takes pity on the girl and helps her run away. She becomes a mistreated
servant in the house of Minister Choi. Kil-rye eventually marries [a low-level
nobleman] but when it appears that she cannot produce a male child to
continue the bloodline, Kil-rye puts both herself and her husband in physical
jeopardy.
This quality Pink production from Korea [similar to the better
Nikkatsu projects of the '70s] was the Official submission from South
Korea in the Best Foreign Language Film category for the 56th Academy
Awards in 1984. But - like most all Asian entries - it was rejected. Reportedly,
Hanrim Studio was told by the Academy that it was not possible for one
woman to experience so many misfortunes in her life. [The winner for that
category was the Swiss motion picture Dangerous Moves, a
film about chess.]