Samaritan Girl
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- Movie: Samaritan Girl
- Revised romanization: Samaria
- Hangul: 사마리아
- Director: Kim Ki-Duk
- Assistant Director: Jang Cheol-Su
- Writer: Kim Ki-Duk
- Producer: Kim Ki-Duk, Min Bae-Jeong, Kim Yoon-Ho, Jung-Hyun
- Cinematographer: Sun Sang-Jae
- Release Date: March 5, 2004
- Runtime: 95 min
- Language: Korean
- Country: South Korea
Plot
Yeo-Jin is a teenage girl who lives happily with her detective father. Her best friend Jae-Young prostitutes herself while Yeo-Jin helps Jae-Young by managing their clientele and saving up their profits for their planned trip to Europe. Jae-Young tells Yeo-Jin about an old Indian tale where a prostitute named Vasumitra turned men into faithful Buddhists after she had sex with them. Jae-Young asks Yeo-Jin to call her Vasumitra from now on.
Later on, Jae-Young ends up falling attached to one of her customers. But Yeo-Jin gets angry with Jae-Young for getting too close to her customer. For her best friend, Jae-Young leaves the man.
One day, cops come to the motel to search for prostituting minors, Jae-Young jumps out of a window, plummets to the ground and gravely injures her head. On her deathbed, Jae-Young asks Yeo-jin to bring the guy she liked. Yeo-Jin goes to meet him, but the man doesn't want to see Jae-Young. He asks her if she has sex with him, he will go. Yeo-Jin reluctantly accepts his proposal for the sake of her dying friend. However, Jae-Young is already found dead before they arrive at the hospital.
Shocked by her best friend’s death, Yeo-Jin starts meeting Jae-Young's customers one by one, but instead of getting paid she rather pays them back. The men are surprised at Yeo-Jin's behavior, and they later regret what they did to the high school girl.
Gradually, Yeojin meets men happily like Jae-Young.
One day, Yeo-Jin's father coincidentally spots Yeo-Jin with a man and he starts to tail him. From that day on, he beats up those men and he ends up killing one of Yeo-Jin's men. One night, he asks Yeo-Jin to go on a journey...
Cast
- Han Yeo-Reum - Jae-Young
- Kwak Ji-Min - Yeo-Jin
- Lee Eol - Young-Ki
- Oh Yong - Musician
- Kim Yoo-Jin
- Son Young-Soon
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