Rice Cake

Story

Synopsis

Jeom-rye works as a sharecropper to make a living for her good-for-nothing husband and her son Yong. But the village men are always trying to seduce her. When she rebuffs her landlord's advances, she is wrongly accused by his wife and is forced to leave. Sam-su, the servant who is smitten with her, offers to lend her husband, Deok-hi, money for her affections. Deok-hi tries to sell her off to Sam-su but Jeom-rye gets him arrested for trafficking humans. Sam-su realizes Jeom-rye's sincerity and drops the charges and Deok-hi repents his ways only too late. He dies of an illness. When her son Yong dies from indigestion after eating rice cakes, she goes off the edge.

Director

Kim Su-hyeong

Writers

Yoo Ji-hoeng, Eo Yun-Cheong, Kim You-jeong

Language

Korean

Country

South Korea

Release date

1 September 1988

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Seonu Il-Ran

• 

  Kim In-mun

• 

  Kim Chu-ryeon

• O Uk-cheol

• Kwak Eun-Kyeong

• Moon Tae-seon

• Ju Sang-ho

• Park Jong-sel

• Choe Jae-ho

• 

  Mun Mi-bong

• Cho Hak-ja

• 

  Park Yae-sook