A Tale Of Two Sisters Janghwa, Hongryeon
After spending time in a mental institution two sisters return to the home of their father and cruel stepmother. While dealing with their stepmother's obsessive and unbalanced ways, a mysterious ghost keeps them up at night, interfering with their fragile sanity.
Both the highest grossing Korean horror film ever and the first Korean horror film to be screened in the United States, A TALE OF TWO SISTERS is a classic of contemporary horror cinema.
Nominated for Best Film at Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival.
"A somber reflection on memory, adolescence and mourning.." - Dana Stevens, New York Times
"The film succeeds again and again at pulling you to the edge of your seat and keeping you there." - Ernest Hardy, L.A. Weekly
Running Time
111 mins
Year
2003
Kanopy ID
1113687
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Comments (8)
Well acted and visually aesthetic but not one bit suspenseful / scary and the most incomprehensible film I have ever seen. Only the second Korean film I've seen, the first being a terrific adaptation of Dangerous Liaisons. This film is a distant second. Won the Sitges film festival? Well ...Read more
Well acted and visually aesthetic but not one bit suspenseful / scary and the most incomprehensible film I have ever seen. Only the second Korean film I've seen, the first being a terrific adaptation of Dangerous Liaisons. This film is a distant second. Won the Sitges film festival? Well it must have been in the middle of winter when Sitges is basically abandoned.
Read lessThis movie introduced me to some of the most amazing Korean horror films I have ever seen and now that I have seen A LOT of them I still believe this is one of the best.
Young Su-mi has issues with her wicked stepmother, or something. Uneven and jumbled plot. Beautiful cinematography. Two stars.
A house is not a home, it's a structure. And the lush, ornately decorated house in TALE OF TWO SISTERS is a very haunted structure indeed. In this celebrated classic of contemporary Korean cinema (originally titled "Rose Flower, Red Lotus," in reference to a particularly gruesome Korean ...Read more
A house is not a home, it's a structure. And the lush, ornately decorated house in TALE OF TWO SISTERS is a very haunted structure indeed. In this celebrated classic of contemporary Korean cinema (originally titled "Rose Flower, Red Lotus," in reference to a particularly gruesome Korean folktale) the complex horror of girlhood is brilliantly portrayed alongside a breakdown of familial structure and inherited trauma. A classically Gothic coming-of-age ghost story, Kim jee-woon's film is not only beautifully shot with psychologically compelling characters-- it's also genuinely horrifying.
Read lessA very sad, thought provoking story. I still loved it a second time around.
The reoccuring music is incredibly beautiful and eerie and oh wow, what are people's thoughts? Might need to rewatch
Anyone have an opinion, review?
seriously, i keep seeing you on all the good film threads. just had to say, PROPS! this is a good one.