The Hut

(Pee-mak)

by Lee Doo-yong

South Korea

Director: Lee Doo-yong

Script: Yoon Sam-ryuk

Cinematographer: Son Hyun-chae

Settings: Kim Yoo-jun

Editing: Lee Kyeong-ja

Music: Kim Hee-kap

Cast: Yoo Jee-inn, Won Nam-goong, Kim Yoon-kyung, Choi Sung-hoh, Whang Jung-soon, Choi Sung-kwan, Jun Sook

Production: Se-kyung enterprise Co. (Séoul)

Year: 1981

35 mm, Colour, 93 min
OV Korean with English Subtitles
French Electronic Subtitles

Unreleased

With kind support of Paris' Korean Cultural Center

Master Gang rules the remote village Soorigol in the deep mountains where old traditions are still alive. Gang’s only son falls mysteriously ill. No one is able to cure him. One day, Okhwa, a young and beautiful exorcist appears and finds out the spirit haunting the house. It is the soul of the Pee-mak keeper, found dead 20 years before. In those years, Gang’s sister-in-law was a sensitive young woman who suddenly became a widow. Tradition was forbidding her to remarry, but she had great difficulties to overcome her desire for a man. She used to hurt her own flesh with a sharp knife, until she became half unconscious and was sent to Samdol, the Pee-mak keeper, who would soothe her with his knowledge of herbs.