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

• Choi Eun-hee... So-nya^[4]
• Kim Hak... Yeong-shik^[5]
• Jo Hae-won... Dong-shik
• Kang Sun-hee... Judy

Notes

1. Infobox data from "The Flower in Hell (Ji-oghwa)(1958)". KMDb Korean Movie Database. Retrieved 2008-01-15. External link in |publisher= (help) 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. External link in |publisher= (help)
3. Synopsis from "The Flower in Hell (Ji-oghwa)(1958)". KMDb Korean Movie Database. Retrieved 2008-01-15. External link in |publisher= (help)
4. Cast listing based on "지옥화 - The Flower in Hell (Ji-oghwa) (1958)" (in Korean). KMDb Korean Movie Database. Retrieved 2008-01-15. External link in |publisher= (help)
5. http://www.koreafilm.org/feature/100_15.asp

Bibliography

• Jiokhwa (1958) at the Internet Movie Database
• "The Flower in Hell (Ji-oghwa)(1958)". KMDb Korean Movie Database. Retrieved 2008-01-15. External link in |publisher= (help)
• Paquet, Darcy. "A Flower in Hell (1958)". koreanfilm.org. Archived from the original on 31 January 2008. Retrieved 2008-01-15. External link in |publisher= (help)