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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 (DVD) (Hong Kong Version) 赤色誘惑 (DVD) (香港版) 赤色诱惑 (DVD) (香港版) スカーレット・レター （The Scarlet Letter）（香港版） The Scarlet Letter (DVD) (Hong Kong Version)
Artist Name(s): Han Suk Kyu | Lee Eun Joo | Sung Hyun Ah | Uhm Ji Won | Daniel Byun H. 韓石圭 | 李恩宙 | 成賢荷 | 嚴智媛 | 邊赫 韩石圭 | 李恩宙 | Sung Hyun Ah | 严智媛 | 边赫 ハン・ソッキュ | イ・ウンジュ | ソン・ヒョナ | オム・ジウォン | Daniel Byun H. 한 석규 | 이 은주 | 성 현아 | 엄 지원 | Daniel Byun H.
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Release Date: 2005-03-24
Language: Korean
Subtitles: English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese
Country of Origin: South Korea
Picture Format: NTSC What is it?
Aspect Ratio: Widescreen, 1.78 : 1
Sound Information: Dolby Digital
Disc Format(s): DVD-9, DVD
Region Code: All Region What is it?
Rating: II
Duration: 118 (mins)
Publisher: Winson (HK)
Package Weight: 120 (g)
Shipment Unit: 1 What is it?
YesAsia Catalog No.: 1003975443

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* Screen Format: 16:9 (Anamorphic Widescreen)
* Sound Mix: Dolby Digital 5.1
* DVD Type: DVD-9
* Extra:
- Interview 訪問
- Poster Shooting 海報拍攝
- Pusan International Film Festival 釜山電影節
- Trailer 本片預告

導演：邊赫
Director: Daniel H. Byun

　　一段錯縱複雜的感情關係，一個始料不及的悲慘結局﹗

　　警探啟雄雖然已跟秀妍結婚多年，可是對他來說這段婚姻生活沒有多大趣味。縱使太太賢良淑德，但是啟雄仍鍾情於酒廊歌手嘉希。在啟雄結婚後，他仍跟自己太太的朋友嘉希交往，並不時發生關係。剛巧啟雄奉命調查一宗情殺案，死者是恩熙的丈夫。啟雄案發現場看見恩熙，覺得她的嫌疑亦是最大。可是恩熙卻一直否認而且不時挑戰啟雄的感情生活。啟雄對自己的感情一向喜歡由自己作主，即使穿梭眾人之間也習以常。可是，有天啟雄發現秀妍懷孕，試圖跟嘉希結束關係，卻在展覽中發現嘉希也同時有了自己的骨肉，這時候他竟開始對恩熙產生興趣。一向把感情管理得井井有條的啟雄面臨嚴峻的的考驗……

　　Ki Hoon (Han Suk Kyu) is a criminal investigator, intelligent and with animal instincts. He has a submissive wife, Soo-hyun (Uhm Ji-woo), and a passionate mistress, Ka Hee(Lee Eun Joo). Ki Hoon feels guilty, yet continues to move back and forth between these two women, who also happen to be schoolmates from high school. One day Ki Hoon goes to a murder scene and there he meets Kyung Hee (Sung Hyun Ah), a woman accused of murdering her husband...

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Average Customer Rating for this Edition: Customer Review Rated Bad 5 - 5 out of 10 (1)
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

This customer review refers to The Scarlet Letter (DVD) (Special Edition) (Korea Version)
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 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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June 12, 2007

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 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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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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February 4, 2006
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 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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April 21, 2005

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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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