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Hangul | 불신지옥 |
Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | Bulsinji-ok |
McCune–Reischauer | Pulsinji-ok |
Directed by | Lee Yong-joo |
Produced by | Jeong Seung-hye Lee Jeong-se Jo Cheol-hyeon |
Written by | Lee Yong-joo |
Starring |
Nam Sang-mi Shim Eun-kyung Ryu Seung-ryong Kim Bo-yeon |
Music by | Kim Hong-jib |
Cinematography | Jo Sang-yoon |
Edited by |
Kim Sang-bum Kim Jae-bum |
Production
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Ahchim Production
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Distributed by | Showbox |
Release date
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Running time
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106 minutes |
Country | South Korea |
Language | Korean |
Box office | US$1,361,570 |
Living Death (Korean: 불신지옥 lit. "Distrust Hell", also known as Possessed) is a 2009 South Korean horror film written and directed by Lee Yong-joo. The film received 248,503 admissions in South Korea.
A college student named Hee-jin (Nam Sang-mi) returns home when her 14-year-old sister So-jin (Shim Eun-kyung) goes missing. Her mother (Kim Bo-yeon), a fanatic churchgoer, resorts to prayer and refuses to work with the lazy police to find So-jin. Meanwhile, a neighbor commits suicide and leaves a will for So-jin, and Hee-jin hears rumors that her sister had been possessed. The whereabouts of So-jin become increasingly elusive and the dead neighbor begins appearing in Hee-jin's dreams.
The early working title for the film was Bi-myeong ("Scream"). It was shown during the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival.