Potato (1987)
감자
Innocent Bok-nyeo is sold at 18 years old to an elderly widower who sends her to work in the salt mines. There she is raped by the supervisor. Becoming very cynical about life, Bok-nyeo becomes the mistress of a couple of rich men, Choi and Wang. In this way, she becomes accustomed to the high life. However she panics and takes desperate steps when one of her sources of income is about to cut her off.
- Date of release
- 1987-03-01
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (2)
- Runtime
- 1h 52m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Byeon Jang-ho
Casting
- Kang Soo-youn — Bok-nyeo
- Lee Dae-geun — Wang
- Kim In-mun — Seo
- Kim Hyung-ja
- Choe In-Suk
- Cho Ju-mi
- Chang Hyeok
- Lee Seong-ung
- Hong Seong-min
- Kim Kyeong-ran
- Chung Mi-kyung
- Choe Jae-ho
Interesting facts
- Based on: Potatoes
Potato is a 1987 South Korean remake of a 1967 film with the same name, and the second adaptation of Kim Dong-in's short novel.
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