| Janghwa Hongryeon jeon | |||||||||||||
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| Director: | Lee Yu-seob | ||||||||||||
| Producer: | Shin Sang-ok | ||||||||||||
| Starring: | Lee Yeong-ok Heo Jang-kang Yun In-ja | ||||||||||||
| Music: | Hwang Mun-pyeong | ||||||||||||
| Cinematography: | Choi Seung-woo | ||||||||||||
| Editing: | Hyeon Dong-chun | ||||||||||||
| Runtime: | 90 minutes | ||||||||||||
| Country: | South Korea | ||||||||||||
| Language: | Korean | ||||||||||||
Janghwa Hongryeonjeon jeon (literally The Story of Janghwa and Hongryeon) is 1972 South Korean horror film directed by Lee Yu-seob. The film is based on a popular Korean fairy tale "Janghwa Hongryeon jeon".[1] [2]
Janghwa Hongreonjeon is film based on a popular Korean fairy tale "Janghwa Hongryeon jeon" which had been previously filmed in 1924, 1936, 1956 and 1962.[3] Director Kim Jee-woon used the story as the basis of his 2003 film, A Tale of Two Sisters. The evil stepmother of sisters Jang-hwa and Hong-ryeon orders her son to murder the two girls so that she can claim the inheritance from the girls' father. But the sisters come back as ghosts seeking revenge.