Original subtitles

Kim Ki-yeong production 1971

The Woman of Fire

Starring: Nam Gung-won, Jun Gae-hyun

Yoon Yeo-jeong, Choi Mu-reong

Kim Ju Mi-hae, Oh Yeong-ah

Hwang-baek, Chu Seok-yang

Camera: Jung Il-seong

Music: Han Sang-ki

Editing: Kim Hee-soo

Production: Jung Jin-woo

Screenplay & Director: Kim Ki-yeong

It's a brutal crime.

The owner and the housekeeper were murdered.

The person in custody is underage.

As the person in charge, I have one thing to say

Don't you think what motivates minors to commit crimes are the shocking

images they see on the news?

News outlets just report the truth.

It's like the 25-year cold war. We're all victims.

It's not a shock that minors have become more violent.

The police keep the social order

and work hard to stay a step ahead of criminals.

But we're only temporary relief.

Who is going to teach people about crime?

We have to rely on the media.

If news reports were less negative and had a sense of responsibility

don’t you think there's a possibility that society would be more positive?

That's all for today.

This kid says he found the items lying in the street.

This is not a game.

This heinous crime was committed because of the TV and radio.

The family of the victim lost their father and are barely surviving.

Spill it! We have enough evidence!

I did it. I killed them and I robbed the house.

I said I did it. Isn't that enough for you?

Is this the burglar that broke into your house last night?

He confessed so let's have him sign a statement.

Ok.

There's a girl here claiming she was close to the dead housekeeper.

- Really? Let's talk to her. - Ok.

What do you do for a living?

I work in a bar.

What is your relationship with the deceased?

We both ran away from the country.

I don't like you girls from the country.

You come here and all you find are these lewd jobs?

The families in the country are waiting for their daughters to send money from Seoul.

They need to buy land and put new roofs on their homes.

Look over there.

What should we do? Let's go.

- Hurry up! - Wait for me.

Get away from me!

I've made up my mind.

Now that I've been forced to leave the country

I'm going to find a job where I can make money off of men.

I'll work as a waitress in a teahouse or bar as long as it makes money.

I'm going to work as a housekeeper for a rich family.

You can learn a lot by watching how the rich live.

There is a 31 floor building in Seoul.

Even if we go our separate ways let's make that our inspiration.

31 floors? It's an easy place to jump to your death.

Hey did you find me a waitress?

Be quiet. I'm stressed out.

There's a girl who makes 10,000 won a day. What do you think?

She's probably crazy.

I don't want to hear it! Not everyone makes money.

You have to work hard to make money.

- Oh, the stress. - Who wants to go?

I'll go.

Do you know how to dance?

Show me some moves.

Oh my. What is that?

First, you need to learn how to dance.

C'mon follow me.

- Kyung-hui. - What.

Make lots of money.

Don't forget. We want that 31 floor building.

Ok.

Welcome.

I heard about your request but housekeepers don't last long these days.

They might stay if you drive them to the market...

What do you want to ask her? You first.

How much money do you spend in the market a day?

500 won.

You must be cheap. That's barely going to buy anything.

That's nothing.

We raise chickens so we have more than enough chicken and eggs.

She wants us to take care of chickens too.

Excuse me. I've raised chickens...

Wait.

How much should I pay you? Paying the broker is expensive.

My mother said instead of getting paid,

to ask you to find me a husband.

Find you a husband?

I know you're very thrifty.

Ok, then let's do that.

First, please write me a letter.

I promised my mother.

Why so little?

Don't do that. I already gave you a lot.

Give it to me. Give it to me.

If you do that I'm going to lose money.

Knock before you go into the chicken coop.

If you scare the chickens they won't be able to lay eggs.

If you want the chickens to lay large eggs when you mix the feed

make sure you use a lot of calcium and animals.

What I mean by that is animal meat.

You know things like frogs, tadpoles, mudfish, worms.

Basically anything that moves.

Put that mudfish in here.

Go on.

Watch your hand.

You could get sucked in and become chicken feed.

Oh no.

Oh dear.

Be careful.

Come in.

- She looks like a country bumpkin! - She's funny looking isn't she?

Oh!

This could be chicken feed right? It's animal protein.

Get that out of here! Aren't you scared of it?

In the country we use poison.

I caught eight rats and won a prize.

That's going to come in handy. The rats were eating the chicken feed,

but now you can catch them.

Don't use poison though,

the kids and chickens might get into it.

Oh love, my bread.

I can't forget you.

I can't forget you, I can't forget you.

Mom, Sang-jun is singing dad's song.

I told you I didn't want you to follow in your dad's, or my footsteps.

Why are you eating the eggs mom brought?

I'm not going to raise chickens when I'm older. It's embarrassing.

I'm going to be a songwriter.

The only songs you're going to write are ones that sound like a dog is barking.

You suck.

- Mom look at what Sang-jun's doing. - Stop it! Stop it!

You're not going to get up?

Get up! Hurry up and get up!

I'm thinking of my love

that has gone far away.

Oh love.

Oh love.

Oh I can't forget you.

I'm calling you.

Oh love.

Oh love.

Oh I can't forget you.

I have a good feeling about my new song.

The company promised they would invest heavily to promote it.

It's going to cost at least 500,000 won.

This song really suits you Hye-ok but

do you have that kind of money?

I'll give you the money.

Just show me the song.

Oh love. The love that has left me in tears.

Oh love. The love that has left me in tears.

I usually take my husband's clothes to the dry cleaners

but why don't you wash these.

I don't know how he spills so much on his clothes.

- Honey. - Yes.

Honey, Hye-ok said she would pay 500,000 for my song.

Wow.

It's too bad. If I gave it to a famous singer it would probably be a big hit.

Here.

Think of one thing.

Oh love.

Oh love.

Oh I can't forget you.

Oh milk.

Oh mom. I can't forget you.

How amusing.

This is on the house.

Excuse me.

Just a moment.

My apologies.

What are you going to do? You owe 300,000 won.

You need to do whatever it takes to make that money.

If you don't pay up we're both going to end up in the Han river.

Here.

What do you say?

I won't be able to get married if I do this.

Even housekeepers find good husbands.

Here.

I can't. Just have a drink.

You might change your mind.

I'm going to take the lady home. Let me give you what she owes.

Thank you. As you know this bar has the best service.

Honey are you tired too?

Thankfully the housekeeper does a good job so I'm feeling much better.

Where did you find such a country girl?

Honey have you ever played around?

What do you mean?

Even when I taught at a girls school, nothing like that ever happened.

Although that could be because I didn't meet anyone I liked.

These days, people don't care about feelings.

All it takes is one look for sparks to fly.

It's like a surge of energy you know?

I guess you've never experienced it.

I have a conscience you know. I couldn't do that knowing

how hard you worked to buy this house. Always working in filthy conditions.

All I know is women these days are feisty.

Now that I think about it

you gave everything you had to build this house.

Yes.

This alcohol is really expensive. It costs as much as a few bags of rice.

I'll make some rice wine tomorrow with the leftovers so

try it when I'm done.

Is this alcohol?

It's ok.

Honey.

Here.

You may write songs but you don't know how to play the instruments.

You should hear the sounds they make if they're played properly.

All of the recent articles on sex have ruined women.

Didn't you say that if you want to keep things fresh in the bedroom,

I need to know how to role-play?

How about this? I'll be the country girl.

- You smell like booze. - I don't want to.

No, no, no.

I can't believe you would do this to a housekeeper.

You should be ashamed of yourself.

Honey...

She wanted to see how a rich family lived.

She wanted happiness.

A building with 31 floors.

That was the end goal for both of us.

Look at her.

Even though her husband is dead she's dressed in white.

Her expression has changed since she's been here.

It wasn't a burglar that killed my friend it was her.

She's like the devil.

Watch what you say.

If you accuse an innocent person of murder, you could be charged with slander.

The murderer already confessed.

That guy over there.

This is a letter Myeong-ja told me to give the police, in the event she was killed.

It says the wife was going to kill her.

That's not all. She was going to kill the husband too.

We have to get rid of the chickens with stomach problems

along with the ones that are too fat.

Here.

Here.

If they don't produce an egg a day we're losing money.

Got it?

Take good care of the chickens while I'm gone.

Chickens are sensitive creatures

if you don't pay enough attention to them they won't lay eggs.

What a mess.

While I'm gone, my husband

will probably try to seduce the female singers.

Do whatever it takes to stop him.

If they're in bed together, drag them out.

If they're in the shower together, throw her out naked.

If that doesn't work feel free to kill them.

- Kill them? - Yes!

Here, eat this. Remember, you're the only person I trust.

Dip it in some salt.

Love has left me in tears.

Oh love.

Going to see my parents is such an ordeal.

Why don't you stay there for a few days?

I've given Myeong-ja instructions.

Bye.

- Have a good trip. - I'm leaving now.

Have a good trip.

Try some of this rice wine, I made it with cold rice.

I didn't think you would come home because your wife is away.

I've never ever cheated on her.

My friend who works in a bar says

that men hate to lose and get very jealous.

So?

So they like to get caught up in love triangles.

Love triangles?

It tastes like a soft drink.

As I was taking a bath it occurred to me that I left my book here.

Is he here?

Can I have a drink?

I should make you leave.

Here.

Have you ever cheated on your wife?

Never. I'm very proud that I haven't.

Go home. Don't put me in a difficult position.

I don't have the money to buy the song.

This company president I know said if I go to a hotel with him

he would give me 500,000 won, so I went but I couldn't bring myself to go in the room.

There's no way I could ever do something like that.

I need your song.

Do you insist on being paid for it?

Aren't you ashamed that your student needs

to give her body to such an old man?

I'd rather you...

My body is worth that song.

What am I supposed to do... what...

This is what they call a love triangle.

You're making me crazy.

Aren't you thirsty?

Just leave it here and get out.

Please! Just leave.

My hand has a cramp...

- What? A cramp? - Yes.

Oh.

Sir...

I brought a candle. It looks like the light has gone out.

I'm drunk.

That rice wine was really strong.

I'm a great husband I've never been unfaithful!

But I'm a sissy.

I'm scared to spend money, and if I do I'm scared my wife will say something.

I'm scared people will find out.

Bigwigs spend lots of money and are surrounded by women.

Wake up.

Oh no.

If your wife saw this, she would kill you.

How could you go after a married man?

- You're just a housekeeper! - Get out!

Over my dead body! His wife gave me strict orders!

Get out! Get out! Get out!

Hye-ok.

Hye-ok, don't leave.

Don't go to that old man.

- Hye-ok! - I'm not Hye-ok.

You're not? Then where is she? Hye-ok!

Don't go! Don't go!

Move!

Hye-ok!

Hye-ok is right here.

This love triangle is making me crazy.

You don't belong to that president, you belong to me.

I don't want to be with someone else.

I'm going to be faithful to him.

The problem is how am I going to make him mine forever.

That's the problem.

What? You're going to teach me? I want to learn.

I'm back and you don't even say hi?

I just thought of something to write about.

It came to me just as you came into the front yard.

Give me some matches.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Oh you!

Look at the way she's feeding the chickens.

Honey, does she listen to you?

She does and she doesn't.

Hey,

why did you catch so many chickens?

Are you trying to kill them all?

They haven't laid eggs in four days.

That's because you aren't feeding them properly!

Look at the size of this ginseng.

I probably got it for cheap because I got it in the market, right?

If you boil this ginseng with chicken

it will heat things up in the bedroom.

That's not for you to worry about.

I brought you some ginseng and chicken stew to give you more energy.

Ginseng stew?

How about a taste?

Try it.

Ok.

For the last time, stop leaving me messages!

You don't even know I exist when we're home.

When I see you sleep in the same bed with your wife,

it makes me crazy.

Honey.

Are you crazy?

Yes, honey.

Don't call me honey ever again. You got it?

You're being mean.

Don't call me sweetie either.

But I'm your concubine.

Stop it!

Don't be mad. I'm no longer a virgin.

My body isn't pure anymore. I'm not going to be able to get married.

If you come to me from time to time,

I'll be your housekeeper forever.

Have some chicken before you leave.

You need to be able to tell the difference between a male and female chick.

What should I do with the male chicks?

We don't need them. Throw them out.

Don't get in my way when I'm working.

I have something to tell you.

Please just leave.

When I threw up,

your wife said that if I was married and pregnant

my husband would treat me so well.

It's better not to give birth to an illegitimate child.

But this baby wants to live.

Nobody can touch it. Not even God.

What's wrong with you? You look so stressed.

No matter what the problem is, you can trust me.

You promise to save me?

You know my body and my life belong to you, right?

What if I robbed someone?

Yes.

What if I murdered someone?

Of course.

What if I cheated on you+and had a baby?

Anything but that.

Everyone wanted this song.

So you take advantage of a young girl?

Hye-ok wanted to give me her body instead of money.

So it's true.

How could you sleep with me with your filthy body.

My body smells filthy.

Didn't you promise to save me?

It would have been better to hear that you were dead.

Because I believed in you,

I was happy despite all the suffering I went through.

Now that I've lost you, how am I going to

make it through each day.

I don't think I've made myself clear.

I'm asking you for advice. I'm not asking you to find fault with me.

I'm asking you because I've never cheated before.

Other wives pretend they don't know anything,

to help their husbands be successful.

You need to acknowledge your flaws.

If I look the other way will you get rid of the baby?

She won't listen to me.

This is going to stand in the way of her career.

It's not Hye-ok.

Thanks to you, Myeong-ja

went out of her way to keep us apart.

Who is it?

I'm so ashamed.

Who is it?

I was drunk and made a mistake.

It's not Myeong-ja, is it?

I promised to find her a good husband and in return she worked so hard for free.

I can't believe you!

You're unbelievable!

You disgust me!

You're disgusting!

Myeong-ja.

He told me everything.

That you're pregnant.

Go on.

I know you sacrificed yourself to keep Hye-ok away from him.

I wrote your mother

and told her I would find you a good husband

but I committed a sin.

People make mistakes,

but you don't have to spend your entire life suffering because of it.

I wanted to do a good job.

I chased Hye-ok away but your husband was drunk and he...

I'm so sorry.

I don't want to cause you pain.

If you want me to have the baby I will. If you want me to have an abortion I will.

Hey!

You make me have an abortion and now you ignore me.

Water!

Mom, please save me!

Water! Water! Water!

When a woman has a baby she thinks she's going to die.

But isn't it strange how she forgets that right after she's had the baby?

That's why we have this baby.

If men were to give birth to a baby

they would be so scared the majority would probably kill themselves.

Men really are scaredy cats.

You're a lucky woman.

There's just one problem remaining.

How to get rid of Myeong-ja,

without her doing us harm.

Hey.

Are you trying to starve me to death?

You haven't given me any water in four days.

You didn't bring her any water?

I'll get you some. A person can't survive without food right?

Honey, that wasn't very nice.

How cute.

Do you think my baby would have been cute?

There's no point in thinking about that.

So you can kill my baby but yours is to be loved.

That's crazy.

You have to be crazy to go through what I went through.

Your husband got me pregnant and

you made me have an abortion.

Is my body your toy, to do as you please?

You killed my baby so yours needs to die too.

Myeong-ja! Are you crazy?

Honey!

What the!

Hey!

You crazy girl!

Oh no!

I can't believe this!

My baby.

I've never met someone as frightening as you.

Let's go!

I'm turning you over to the police even if it ruins my life.

Let's go!

You horrible person!

Let's go!

Come on. Come here!

Honey!

Honey, this baby is already dead.

We need to go on living.

If this gets out

then it will be like killing our entire family.

Please think of our family,

and keep this from getting out.

Let's do whatever she wants.

If she wants money, let's give it to her.

If she wants clothes, let's give it to her.

I want your husband.

I want to have another baby.

Do whatever you want.

Honey come and sleep in my room tonight.

I'm too scared to sleep alone.

Are you coming or not?

Go up with her.

Just do what she wants!

Come on, honey.

Honey.

- Honey! - What.

Here.

Honey.

Get up. If you don't get up we're all going to die.

Hurry and get up.

Let's go to my parents house. This house is haunted.

Hurry! Hurry!

Hurry!

Hurry!

We found a driver that said he

picked up a female carrying a record player early this morning.

Yes.

The autopsy results show it wasn't the stabbing,

but rat poison that killed him?

Both of them!

This wasn't a burglary-murder.

You hated your husband and the housekeeper

so you gave them rat poison,

and to make it look like a burglary-murder

you stabbed your husband in the back!

Isn't there someone listening in the other room?

Hey come here.

So you don't come by to say hi?

Other girls give me two months pay.

They don’t pay me. They promised to find me a good husband instead.

Then you can pay me with your body instead.

Here.

We make sure we know everything about you.

If people knew what you did in the country they would be so scared of you.

I should be afraid of your threats,

but I'm not the same person I used to be.

Hey you!

Water! Water!

Water. Water.

Water.

When a woman is in trouble, a man will kill to protect her.

I didn't kill him.

He killed him.

We're one. We're both responsible for this crime.

No! I didn’t kill him!

Is that blood?

What happened?

What did you do?

Who is this?

A thief.

He could be a burglar. Did you kill him?

What could I have killed him with? I can't even kill a rat.

Should we call the police?

No. Give me some time to think.

If this isn't a burglar

and it's someone we know, then it's murder.

I can be charged for this. Let's get rid of the body.

That's a crime too.

Then should we burn the body? Bury it?

That's a crime. They're all crimes.

Then what are we supposed to do!

Someone is trying to frame us.

Your wife has it out for us.

Don't bring my wife into this!

Don't drag me into this!

You take care of the body.

What?

We're accomplices.

I can't take it anymore! I'm sick of it all!

I'm sick of everything! No more!

Really?

Take the body as far away as possible.

Who is it?

Honey!

Where did this body come from?

Are there two of these?

I've been here since the morning.

I'm sure I've seen him somewhere before but I don't know where.

Who's responsible for this?

First we need to get rid of it.

Just leave it. I'll do it.

If you do it you'll get caught.

I'll do it.

They say it's bad luck if a man cheats,

but this is worse than that.

Why are you avoiding me?

I put up with everything because of you,

and I end up paying for it.

A man can make a mistake,

but after I left, did you restrain yourself?

Did you keep meeting her because you thought what's done is done?

Men are weak when it comes to temptation.

That's a terrible excuse.

You mess with the housekeeper and you say you're human?

I don't want to hear it!

Are you going to get rid of the body

or are you going to report it to the police?

Everyone get out!

I'll get rid of the body.

We're all criminals.

Oh my.

Today's eggs are unusually big.

It looks like last night's feed was good.

Feed made from animals is the best!

What did you do with the body?

When you're mixing feed made from animals the machine is really noisy.

What's wrong with you? You’re acting crazy.

She's trying to kill me.

You're being oversensitive.

I'm going to become chicken feed.

What?

Hold on to this letter.

If I should die or disappear give it to the police.

You're acting strange.

I'm positive she's going to kill me.

But I'm going to make sure she falls into my trap.

I can't sleep because of the rats,

and the roosters wake me up in the morning.

Just one bottle is enough to kill 100 chickens.

He said he couldn’t sleep

so I gave him sleeping pills,

but then I couldn't wake him up. Do you think I gave him too many?

I almost killed him by accident.

There's some rat poison left.

It seemed like such a waste, so I thought I'd feed it to the chickens.

Hey you!

It's not just the chickens that are going to die.

I'm going to kill all of you before you can turn me into chicken feed!

Do you have food for me?

Food should be shared.

But sleeping with someone shouldn't.

There's sugar in my soup!

Do you want to switch?

She fell for it.

I knew she would try this. That's why I made the switch.

Last night I switched the rat poison

with sugar on purpose.

My soup is sweet because she put rat poison in it.

Hey you!

You evil woman!

You turned me into a concubine and now you're trying to kill me!

Stop it! Let go!

Let go! Get off of her!

Let her go!

What are you two doing?

Honey wake up.

I'm going to go to the police! You tried to kill me!

Go back to your parents place, the kids are waiting for you.

You were lucky you didn't die today,

but so was Myeong-ja.

Everyone is crazy.

I think I should go to the police.

You need to be my witness.

You want me to turn my wife over to the police

and sever our relationship?

If I return everything to normal,

will you marry me?

Give me a wedding, this house,

everything in here. Will you give it all to me?

You can't give it to me can you? Can you?

I'll give you everything. Just don't harm my wife.

Doesn't your wife need to agree?

She's nothing to you now.

I didn’t steal you from her. Your wife gave you to me.

Who killed him

and why was he left here for everyone to see?

The deceased is a broker who helps people find jobs

and looking at his records for placing housekeepers

your house is closest to where the body was dumped.

He's known for exploiting the secrets of the girls he places

and blackmails them for money and sex.

I've never given him either.

So you killed him instead?

How can a weak woman like her inflict that kind of damage on his head?

Then it was a man? Was it you?

The killer will have blood on his hands.

Show me your hands!

What's wrong with you?

- Here. - It's not me.

Let's go.

Let's go.

Come on, let's go.

Are you missing a plate?

Red china.

No.

There was a piece of red china lodged in his skull

and I'm going to dig around until I find it.

Where is the red chamber pot?

I don't know.

Did my husband hit someone with it?

He doesn't use a chamber pot.

I used it to go to the bathroom

but he used it to kill someone.

I don't believe you.

You left the body out where people would find it.

I thought you fed it to the chickens.

Something wasn't right

so I left the body where someone would identify it.

Why are the police digging up the ground?

They're looking for the red china found in the victims skull.

What are you talking about?

I buried the broken china.

Where? Where did you bury it?

Did I hit him?

It wasn't you.

She left the body by the riverside so they would find it.

You've ruined me. Ruined me.

- It wasn't you. - Don't say another word.

You can't even kill a chicken or a bug.

I want to know the truth.

Let's tell the police what happened.

You can't.

If we can't reveal the truth, I'll take the blame.

- Don't say anything. - It wasn't you.

Don't say anything! No! Please don't!

- It wasn't you! - Please don't say anything! Please!

It wasn't you! It wasn't you!

It doesn't matter who was at fault.

I don't want the wrong person to take the blame.

I'm a murderer!

I would rather die than go to prison.

Let's go!

Honey.

- Honey. - Stop it.

- Honey. Honey. - I said move.

If they dig around there, they'll find the chamber pot.

They're going to find it,

then they will come back with an arrest warrant.

This will come out in the paper.

Murderers always have their face covered in the paper, like this.

Your wife is going to be arrested too.

- She didn't do anything wrong. - Yes she did.

- I disposed of the body. - I'll tell them what happened.

- I'm going to take the blame. - Your wife will go to jail too.

I told you to leave her out of this.

I can't do that.

Should I take the blame then?

I don't want you to go to jail.

I want us to die together,

then everything will be ok.

If we die together we'll both be happy.

Nobody will willingly die with another person.

Not your parents or siblings or even your significant other.

They won't die with you.

Let's kill ourselves.

Let's do it. Let's kill ourselves.

Don't think of it as dying.

Think of it as being together forever.

It's not possible in this life but it is in the next.

Are we really going to do it?

We can cherish the last moment. Our last moment.

We can enjoy our last moment.

No we can't. If we do this we'll change our minds.

All I have is you.

Maybe I should run away.

Or maybe I’ll meet a hot-blooded younger man?

What?

A love triangle makes a man crazy?

I'll never forgive you. This is all because of you.

A younger man.

Don't make me hit you.

I'm a bad girl aren't I? Aren't you worried I'll do something worse?

You should give me a spanking so I don't.

That way I'll forget about the younger man and take the rat poison.

What?

This is all because of you.

Take the poison. Take it.

I feel sorry for you.

Sweetie, you're going to take it right?

I've gotten used to you calling me that.

It doesn't taste that bad.

They made it so the rats would like the taste.

I guess I'm a rat now.

Now we can be whatever we want.

The earth, water, wind, sun...

But I'm scared.

I'm scared of that moment when death comes.

Help me so I don't think about it. Fill these last moments.

I wanted to finish knitting this.

Water... water...

I can't think of anything to write in this will.

Saying sorry just doesn't seem to be enough.

Water. Water. Water.

Where are you going? Where?

I've done everything you've asked of me.

But I want to spend my last moments with my wife.

No. Please don't.

Please don't.

I may have given you my life

but I won't give you my soul.

You won't be able to escape my clutches even in death.

What are you going to do with my will?

What are you doing?

You don't need to go to your wife.

Your wife will be executed and will be joining us shortly.

What?

I gave my friend a letter.

I told her to give the letter to the police if I died.

It says your wife killed the person found by the river

and poisoned us too.

Sweetie.

Sweetie.

Sweetie.

Sweetie.

Sweetie.

Honey, Myeong-ja convinced me

to eat rat poison.

But if it gets out that I had an affair with the housekeeper

our kids will become outcasts

and you won't be able to face the public.

It didn't occur to me at the time.

There's only one way to fix this.

You need to pretend a burglar broke in,

and killed both of us.

Take this knife and stab me in the back.

Stab me as hard as you can.

Don't let our family name be ruined. Don't let the kids suffer.

Keep our family honor.

Here...

How can I stab my husband?

What will make me stab him?

What about when he abused you? Or hit you?

Or when he ignored you?

No, no.

He was always a good husband.

He was everything to me.

It's not true. It's a lie!

It can't be true. It's all a lie!

Come back tomorrow.

Get some rest and hopefully you'll be in a better state.

The End. A Kim Ki-yeong Production 1971

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