# Insect Woman (1972)

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**Original title**: *충녀*
**Runtime**: 110 min
**Genres**: Horror, Drama
**Directed by**: Kim Ki-young
**Written by**: Kim Ki-young, Kim Seung-ok
**Starring**: Youn Yuh-jung, Nam Koong Won, Jeon Gye-hyeon, Park Jeong-ja, Sa Mi-ja, Lee Dae-geun

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Seoul, early spring, rustling silk. Naive Myung-ja ascends to hostess work, then takes the scholar Lee as her lover, all under the watch of Lee’s calculating wife. Soon, the women settle into a bizarre domesticity. Kim's lurid melodrama anticipates later Bong Joon-ho.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, outsider, raw

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