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Customer Rating: Customer Review Rated Bad 8 - 8.6 out of 10 (8)
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Complex emotional relationships and human nature's darker sides are explored in this captivating suspense drama about a cop whose lust for love threatens to get in the way of his professional life. Ki Hoon (Han Suk Kyu) is a guy who doesn't mind an erotic adventure or two. Even though he is married to the charming and beautiful Soo Hyun, he engages in a passionate affair with his wife's friend, night club singer Ka Hee (Lee Eun Joo). As if things weren't complicated enough, he also starts to fall for murder suspect Kyung Hee, whom he believe may be involved in the killing of her husband.

Directed by Daniel H. Byun (Interview), The Scarlet Letter is perhaps now most remembered as actress Lee Eun Joo's last film. The star of such films as Taegugki and Bunjee Jumping of Their Own, Lee committed suicide shortly after shooting the film. Her co-star in the film, Han Suk Kyu, is one of Korea's most respected character actors, having previously appeared in such blockbusters as Shiri and Green Fish, which won him Best Actor awards at both the Blue Dragon Awards and the Daejong Film Festival in 1997. The Scarlet Letter also attracted a lot of attention for its explicit lovemaking scenes.

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Product Title: The Scarlet Letter Special Edition 赤色誘惑 (特別版)(韓國版) 赤色诱惑 (特别版)(韩国版) スカーレット・レター (The Scarlet Letter Special Edition) 주홍글씨 Special Edition
Artist Name(s): Han Suk Kyu | Lee Eun Joo | Sung Hyun Ah | Uhm Ji Won 韓石圭 | 李恩宙 | 成賢荷 | 嚴智媛 韩石圭 | 李恩宙 | Sung Hyun Ah | 严智媛 ハン・ソッキュ | イ・ウンジュ | ソン・ヒョナ | オム・ジウォン 한 석규 | 이 은주 | 성 현아 | 엄 지원
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Region Code: 3 - South East Asia (including Hong Kong, S. Korea and Taiwan) What is it?
Release Date: 2005-01-05
Language: Korean
Subtitles: Korean, English
Country of Origin: South Korea
Picture Format: NTSC What is it?
Disc Format(s): DVD
Rating: III
Duration: 203 (mins)
Publisher: Spectrum DVD
Other Information: 2 DVDs
Package Weight: 230 (g)
Shipment Unit: 2 What is it?
YesAsia Catalog No.: 1003926063

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* Screen Format : Anamorphic Widescreen
* Sound Mix : Dolby 5.1
* DVD Type : N/A
* Extras : 음성 해설 / 메이킹 필름 / 인터뷰 / 프로모션 관련 자료

* Director : 변혁

2004년 하반기 한국영화 최고의 화제작!!
- 전국 박스 오피스 1위 개봉 작품. 국민 스타 한석규의 컴백 작품. 이은주, 성현아, 엄지원 주연
- 음모와 반전이 돋보이는 충격적인 미스터리 치정극
- 이은주의 베드씬, 후반부의 트렁크씬 등이 화제를 뿌린 작품

세상에 거칠 것 없는 남자 기훈. 강력계 형사인 그에게는 단아하고 순종적인 아내 수현(엄지원)과 도발적이고 매혹적인 정부 가희(이은주)가 있고, 탄탄한 성공가도 또한 보장되어 있다. 그에게 한 건의 살인사건이 맡겨진다. 남편이 살해된 상황에 직면한, 창백한 미망인 경희(성현아). 속내를 알 수 없는 묘한 여자이다. 치정살인을 의심한 기훈은 경희를 용의자로 여기고 사건에 접근해간다. “결혼생활에 문제가 있었나요? 애인 있죠? 사랑합니까, 그 사람?”기훈의 공격적 수사가 진행되지만, 사건은 점점 미궁으로 빠져든다.
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Average Customer Rating for this Edition: Customer Review Rated Bad 8 - 8.6 out of 10 (8)
Average Customer Rating for All Editions of this Product: Customer Review Rated Bad 7 - 7.4 out of 10 (12)

numinair
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July 25, 2007
2 people found the following helpful

 A Scar-let 'Car Crash' Customer Review Rated Bad 9 - 9 out of 10
An interesting thing I read on a web site (although I couldn't cross reference this), was that due to Eun Joo Lee having anxieties about the singing of the Corr's song "Only When I Sleep" which features in the night club scene in the movie, her close friend Bada had helped her with her interpretation of the song and even attended on set to give her solid support when she finally came to shooting the scenes - as Eun Joo was quite nervous about having the exposure of singing like this and got support from Bada. And sing well and perform excellently she did, not only with the song, but with the performance of her character as a whole. But with Bada, that was one really positive and wonderful thing to read about and shone a light on, so to speak, this unfairly merited movie, due to the tragedy regarding Eun Joo's death and this film's possible influence.

I do like Eun Joo so much and, I admit, considering her loss and this movie's relation to that loss, I could at times want to smack it, but I still think that its so unfair for this film to be thought negatively, such that it has been. Its unfair on the other people who helped make it - Daniel H. Byun, Suk Kyu Han, Hyun Ah Seong, Ji Won Eon and everybody really - and I am sure that this film isn't on its own a causation of EJL's death. Eun Joo apparently couldn't come out of her character role and, in hindsight, wasn't exactly happy with it, but her insomnia and depression wouldn't have been due to a negative character persona alone, more a commixture of stresses and frustrations of not being able focus on her career (she didn't want to enter into anything other than films, really) and couldn't feel she could move on - it was her indecision in the main.

The movie is strong and hard though. When I first saw Suk Kyu in the opening scene as the police captain driving hastily along listening to the operatic aria by Verdi (from "The Force of Destiny") and the impactive abrasion of his brittle character has as he drives angrily towards a murder scene, I anticipated all this to be one extreme ride also in a metaphorical sense, that his life and the lives of the other protagonists in "TSL" were going to 'crash' disastrously by all their actions - and with an unforgettable consequences at the finish. Its a dark thriller with a focus on highly emotional and destructively charged characters, crossing social and forbidden emotional barriers. Ki Hoon is married but as an affair with a night club singer Ka Hee (Eun Joo) and both become pregnant by him. Its all a commixture of affairs in a dark ambiance of deceit, lies, jealousies and adultery, but in ultra self destructive impassioned sexual relations. It is a police procedural drama, too, but only as a back drop to the partial character study of Ki Hoon's nature - the murder investigation isn't the main plot. (Don't have enough room to go on about Kyung Hee here) His wife, a cello performer is a docile wife who cannot give the type of love that Ki Hoon requires and his liaisons with Ka Hee (Eun Joo) is what fires his emotional desire to have an affair. Its not a romantic film in any way at all, its all negative love / needful want and lust and touches on sexual ambiguity, lesbianism as well as an adulterous affair, and the final tragedy (that 'car crash' scene) is one not to forget easily after the movie concludes.

The production values are again impeccable and the cinematography is what you would expect from Korean technical skill. Acting is well performed and this is one of Eun Joo's best performances although I do get niggles that somehow her mistress character was slightly out of field for her. I do think that Hyun Ah and Ji Won have shone better in other later movies, as their roles are much sparser than Eun Joo's and Suk Kye's, and they don't get really much scope here. They may seem robotic - but they don't get enough rope. Suk Kye is excellent and although a difficult character to appreciate, that role is well played. Overall, the characters here aren't going to be very likable, apart from maybe Su Hyun (Ji Won) as Ki Hoon's pregnant wife and the whole tragedy is a multi layered bitter pill to swallow. Its well written, but its so dark to be likened to a poisoned chalice, the apple from the garden of the fall depicted in a bunch of sordid characters representing dark emotional destitution. Well, apart from Su Hyun. If a 'car' is the correct metaphor for people here on the edge, they all crash disastrously. It could be harsher than some of Park Chan Wook's movies and certainly one of the darkest Korean movies I have seen. In a way, do I wish Eun Joo hadn't made this film?...absolutely 100% Yes. But could her Achilles heel have been something else?
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cuddley bear
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June 12, 2007

This customer review refers to The Scarlet Letter (Hong Kong Version)
forget it Customer Review Rated Bad 4 - 4 out of 10
Sex, blood, infidelity - all there except that this is by no means a good movie. I am not sure if the writer knows how he wants the movie to develope either. It is indeed weird. I suggest you pick another film.
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Rhoda
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August 31, 2006
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 Different Customer Review Rated Bad 8 - 8 out of 10
Quite different from the other movies i've seen. Thrilling and grossed at the same time. But this is quite a challenging role for the actors who find themselves imprisoned inside the car trunk. Very convincing that i felt too frightened. Don't fail to watch this movie.
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anniebeb
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February 4, 2006

This customer review refers to The Scarlet Letter (Hong Kong Version)
sexual, twisted & boring Customer Review Rated Bad 5 - 5 out of 10
this movie most definitely included sex scenes thus the earli rumor about eun joo's reason for suicide..but overall, i found this movie PREEETY boring :T ill admit that there were parts that just jumped out @ me that i never expected, but overall, the movie was pretty boring. i dont think i got the meaning of the ending real well either, it was just...weird. :T
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Anonymous

April 21, 2005
Whoa Customer Review Rated Bad 10 - 10 out of 10
Man of all movies that I've watched this year... this movie really freaked me out. It really made me have a headache once I got done watching it. The cinematography was excellent and really caught the essence of the movie. I can't even describe how I felt about this movie... all I can say is that the ending was really unexpected.
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