Bedevilled (2010 film)
2010 South Korean film by Jang Cheol-soo
Bedevilled (Korean: 김복남 살인 사건의 전말; lit. '"The Whole Story of the Kim Bok-nam Murder Case"') is a 2010 South Korean horror film starring Seo Young-hee and Ji Sung-won. The film premiered as an official selection of Critics' Week at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.
It is the feature directorial debut of Jang Cheol-soo, who worked as an assistant director on the Kim Ki-duk films Samaritan Girl and Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring. The film was a runaway hit in Korea, with the box-office returns far exceeding its ₩700 million (US$636,363) budget.
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Hae-won works in a Seoul bank. A stern, tense woman, her status and hyper competitive mentality make her apathetic to other people. After witnessing violence against a woman resulting in death, she refuses to identify the culprit because it's not her problem, even after the offender sexually harasses her. At work, she is accidentally locked in the toilet by the janitor and assumes one of her co-workers pranked her.
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