Yeong-sun Kim

Jang-hwa and Hong-ryeon, the daughters of Bae the official governor, die of their stepmother's unfair maltreatment. Jang-hwa's ghost appears in front of a district judge every night begging for clarif...

The Widow offers a different perspective of the female experience in postwar Korea, and a woman's struggle between duty and desire, as the only female director of the film. Raising a daughter alone af...