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 […]

Adultery

Adultery

1984

Dreaming to be released from her miserable life of poverty, Aida, a waitress, abandons her bedridden father, her moralistic mother, her jobless brother and her good-for-nothing sister to live-in with her boyfriend Carding, whom she believes could give her salvation. But her plan only gives her more misfortunes. Carding gets jailed for drug peddling. Aida opts for an abortion. She later lives with a wealthy man to fuel her ambition. Carding is released from prison […]