The Red Shoes

The Red Shoes
  • Release date: 30 Jun 2005
  • Release year: 2005
  • Runtime: 103 minutes
  • Country: South Korea
  • Keywords: shoes, subway, jealousy, ghost, curse, year 1944, 1940s, uncontrollable dancing, slasher, downward spiral
Plot:
After finding that her husband is unfaithful and cheats her with a lover, Sun-jae moves to a decadent cheap apartment at Goksung Station with her daughter Han Tae-soo. While traveling home in the subway, Sun-jae finds a pair of red shoes and brings them home. Tae-soo becomes fascinated by the shoes, which brings greed and jealousy to whoever sees them, while Sun-jae has visions and nightmares with ghosts and blood. When her friend Kim-mi Hee steals the shoes, she has an accident and dies. Meanwhile, the architect decorator Cho-in Choi that is dating Sun-jae, researches and discloses that the mystery is related to a picture of 1944. His further investigation unravels the tragic fate of the original owner of the shoes.
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