''Janghwa Hongryeonjeon'' (literally ''The Story of Janghwa and Hongryeon'') is 1956 South Korean horror film. The film is based on a popular Korean fairy tale " Janghwa Hongryeon jeon" which had been adapted into film versions in

1924 Events January * January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after. * January 20– 30 – Kuomintang in China hol ...

1936 Events January–February * January 20 – George V of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India, dies at his Sandringham Estate. The Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom as King E ...

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1962 Events January * January 1 – Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand. * January 3 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro for preaching communism. * January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the wors ...

1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, me ...

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2009 File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; 2009 Iran ...

Synopsis

Janghwa Hongreonjeon is film based on a popular Korean fairy tale which had been previously filmed in 1924, 1936, and later filmed again in 1962, and

. Director Kim Jee-woon used the story as the basis of his 2003 film, '' A Tale of Two Sisters''.

Cast

* Kyeong-hie Lee * Yeong-ran Seo * Sok-Yang Choo *

Geum-seong Seok Kum-song, also spelled Geum-seong, is a Korean unisex given name. Its meaning differs based on the hanja Hanja (Hangul: ; Hanja: , ), alternatively known as Hancha, are Chinese characters () used in the writing of Korean. Hanja was used ...

* Wol-yeong Seo

References

External links

* South Korean horror films 1956 films 1956 horror films 1950s Korean-language films Films based on fairy tales Films directed by Jeong Chang-hwa South Korean black-and-white films {{SouthKorea-film-stub