Madame Aema 3

1985

Prof. Noh, a professor of engineering, developed an obsession with sex due to his enormous amount of research and the sex he experienced at parties during his studies abroad. Subsequently, his sex life with his wife, Ae-ma, is not satisfactory. Ae-ma looks into hospitals to help her husband. But Ae-ma witnesses her husband having an affair and becomes disheartened. She meets a professional wrestler who looks like her first love and they get involved. Ae-ma […]

Madam Aema

1982
June 24, 2019

Madame Aema (애마부인 – Aema buin; also known as Mrs. Emma) is a 1982 South Korean film. A box-office hit, it was one of only two films to sell more than 100,000 tickets in Seoul during the year of 1982. Oh Su-bi’s husband, Shin Hyun-wu, is in jail for involuntary homicide. For the past two years, Su-bi has visited her husband every week. Though she is anguished by Hyun-wu’s affairs, Su-bi is unable to divorce […]

Affair at Twilight

1972

Reyko the housewife is sleeping with a sadistic thug that looks more interesting than her husband. One of her husband’s pals sees the illicit couple, the thug tries to kill him, he stabs the husband instead, the thug gets arrested, the husband goes insane, and the housewife is left alone and wondering why she did what she did. An unsuccessful attempt to emulate the Apartment Wife series. Similar plot and cast, but not part of […]

The Casserole Club

2011

Steve Balderson’s new film, “The Casserole Club” focuses on a group of mod 1960’s era suburban housewives. Close-knit and neighborly, they are all bent on one-upping each other, trying to prove that each is “the hostess with the mostess.” They begin a recipe club, and hold dinner parties, testing out their new casseroles. But when the gatherings become increasingly focused on boozy flirtation, and more than recipes start getting swapped, the story moves swiftly from […]