Adultery

About Adultery

Adultery (Korean: 간통) is a 1989 South Korean erotic drama film.

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Adultery (Korean: 간통) is a 1989 South Korean erotic drama film.

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Plot

Na-yeong is raped on vacation while her husband Myeong-ho is on a business trip. Sang-hyeon raped Na-yeong in a spirit of vengeance for his old girl that resembles Na-yeong, yet Na-yeong soon becomes obsessed and begins having an affair with her rapist Sang-hyeon. Meanwhile, Myeong-ho has an affair with his daughter's piano teacher and she becomes pregnant. Na young learns about this affair and tries to divorce Myeong-ho out of guilt, but after Myeong-ho apologized and her daughter Cho-rong appealed to her in tears, the two reconcile.

Cast

From movie ending credits:

Bang Hee:Na-yeong

Lee Moo-jung:Yeong-ho

Jeong In-cheol:Sang-hyeon

Sim Eun-yeong:Ji-yeon

Kwak Jung-hee:Hye-suk

Gwon Yeong-jin:Hyeon-ju

Jeon Suk:Mother

Choe Sung-kwan:Father

Park Mi-na:Prostitute

Jang Ae-hui:Noble woman 1

Kim Min-gyeong:Noble woman 2

Lee Ju-ran:Noble woman 3

Kim Un-ok:Housemaid

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Notable quotes

“The revised edition of the Decalogue, calculated for this meridian: Kiss not thy neighbor's wife, unless Thine own thy neighbor doth caress.”
— Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1911), , n.
“     Nessun maggior dolore che ricordarsi del tempo felice ne la miseria.”
— No greater grief than to remember days Of joy, when mis’ry is at hand!
“I saw a little burnished fly Within my Mistress' bodice lie, Sipping lovely stolen sweets From her ample rosy teats. "Small adulterer," said I, "Dost thou know where thou dost lie? 'Tis my lady’s bosom fine, And thou dost sip what is not thine."”
— Richard Le Gallienne, "Adultery—Ad Absurdum", in T. R. Smith, ed., Poetica Erotica (New York, 1922), vol. iii, pp. 251-2
“To the married I give charge, not I but the Lord, that the wife should not separate from her husband . . . and that the husband should not divorce his wife. To the rest I say, not the Lord, . . . But if the unbelieving partner desires to separate, let it be so; in such a case the brother or sister is not bound. For God has called us to peace.”
— Paul of Tarsus, 1 Corinthians 7:10–15 (RSV)
“Not even his friends could deny that he often committed adultery, though of course they said, in justification, that he did so for reasons of state, not simple passion — he wanted to discover what his enemies were at by getting intimate with their wives or daughters.”
— Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars, 'Augustus' 69 (tr. Robert Graves, 1957)
“No one walks together with him or directs their steps towards him. Life passes him by like water. He is dear to no just man, plague prevails over him. Like a worthless penny. [...] He is clothed with a garment as if a heavy punishment were assigned to him. Who is he? His name? A man sleeping with someone's wife.”
— Sumerian proverb (); XXIII, ETCSL

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