Yeong-ja's Heydays

Yeong-ja's Heydays (1975)

영자의 전성시대

Chang-su recalls the girl whom he loved before he entered the military. At that time she had been working as a housemaid. They meet again years later at a police station and the girl, Yeong-ja reveals that she quit her job after being raped by the son of her employer. Her life got steadily worse until finally she lost an arm in a car accident and had to work as a prostitute to pay for an artificial limb.

Date of release
1975-02-11
TMDB
6.6 / 10 (8)
Runtime
1h 43m
Genres
Drama, Romance
Director
Kim Ho-sun
Collection
Yeong-ja’s Heydays Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

Yeong-ja's Heydays is a 1975 South Korean film directed by Kim Ho-sun. It became a huge box office hit upon its release; it drew an audience of 360,000, surpassing the top foreign film at the time, The Sting, by 30,000.

Production

The film is based on a bestseller novel written by Cho seonjak(趙善作(조선작)) in the 1970s. The crank in for the film was announced in October 12, 1974 in The Dong-a Ilbo.

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