Promise of the Flesh

Promise of the Flesh

95 mins | Drama | July 26, 1975

Mild-mannered and modest Sook-young looks like your usual middle-aged woman, but happens to be a man-killing murderess. On a train trip to Mokpo, she remembers an earlier trip as a prisoner on furlough accompanied by a menacing but kind butch female guard. On the train they meet Hoon, a young man who falls for Sook-young. The guard lets them be alone at a bizarre marriage in a hill-top graveyard.

Promise of the Flesh

95 mins | Drama | July 26, 1975

Promise of the Flesh
Mild-mannered and modest Sook-young looks like your usual middle-aged woman, but happens to be a man-killing murderess. On a train trip to Mokpo, she remembers an earlier trip as a prisoner on furlough accompanied by a menacing but kind butch female guard. On the train they meet Hoon, a young man who falls for Sook-young. The guard lets them be alone at a bizarre marriage in a hill-top graveyard.
Producers Dong-a Exports Co. Ltd.
Original title 육체의 약속
Directors Kim Ki-young
Writers Kim Ji-heon, Lee Man-hee

Cast

Lee Jeong-il

as Hoon

Kim Ji-mi

as Sook-young

Park Am

as