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| director = Kim Jee-woon | producer = Oh Jeong-wan Oh Ki-min | writer = Kim Jee-woon | starring = Im Soo-jung Moon Geun-young Yum Jung-ah Kim Kap-soo | music = Lee Byung-woo | cinematography = Lee Mo-gae | editing = Ko Im-pyo | studio = B.O.M. Film Productions Co. | distributor = Cineclick Asia Big Blue Film | released = | runtime = 115 minutes | country = South Korea | language = Korean | budget = $3,700,000〔() ''Hancinema''. Retrieved 2012-06-04〕 | gross = $72,541 (US only)〔 }} ''A Tale of Two Sisters'' (; lit. "Rose Flower, Red Lotus") is a 2003 South Korean psychological horror-drama film written and directed by Kim Jee-woon. The film is inspired by a Joseon Dynasty folktale entitled "Janghwa Hongryeon jeon", which has been adapted to film several times. The plot focuses on two sisters who, after returning home from a psychiatric hospital, experience increasingly disturbing events involving both them and their stepmother. ''A Tale of Two Sisters'' opened to very positive critical review and won Best Picture at the 2004 Fantasporto Film Festival. It is both the highest-grossing Korean horror film and the first to be screened in American theatres.〔http://media.www.kentnewsnet.com/media/storage/paper867/news/2009/02/03/News/the-Uninvited.Stays.True.To.Typical.Korean.Horror.Films-3610298.shtml〕 An American remake titled ''The Uninvited'' was released in 2009. ==Plot== The movie opens in a mental institution where a girl named Su-mi is being treated for shock and psychosis. She is questioned by a doctor who asks if she can speak about the day that led her to being admitted to the hospital. The next scene shows her returning with her father and younger sister, Su-yeon, to the family's secluded estate. At a tense family dinner, their stepmother announces she has invited the sister's uncle and his wife to dinner the next day. Su-mi tells her stepmother she will not eat with them and the two sisters leave the table. That night, Su-yeon experiences frightening visions, and Su-mi later has a disturbing dream of a ghost in her room. Su-mi finds several family photos that reveal that their stepmother was once a nurse her father worked with and was also a live-in nurse for the girls' mother. Su-mi discovers bruises on Su-yeon's arm, and angrily confronts her stepmother about it. That night, the sister's uncle and his wife arrive for a visit. The uncle's wife has a violent attack; when she recovers, she tells the uncle that she saw a girl under the kitchen sink. The stepmother also sees this girl and tells the father that ever since the sisters returned home, bizarre things have been happening in the house. Later, the stepmother finds one of her birds dead in its cage. Infuriated, she goes into Su-yeon's room, where she discovers mutilated photos of her, and finds her other bird dead. She throws Su-yeon into the closet and refuses to let her out until she apologizes. Su-mi lets her sister out and comforts her. The father blames Su-mi for the trauma the family has been going through since she returned. Su-mi retorts that her stepmother is to blame because she has been attacking Su-yeon. The father tells her twice that Su-yeon is dead but Su-mi refuses to believe him. The next morning, the stepmother is seen dragging a large bloodied sack through the house. Believing that Su-yeon is inside, Su-mi goes to find a knife to open the bag with. Her stepmother ambushes her and a violent fight ensues. Su-mi stabs her stepmother in the hand with scissors, but is hit by her and falls unconscious. As Su-mi awakens, her stepmother taunts her. Su-mi quietly asks her stepmother to help her. Her stepmother obliges and goes to kill Su-mi, who looks at peace. The stepmother is interrupted by the sound of the father returning home. He discovers Su-mi unconscious and notices a bloody wound on her hand. He then finds the stepmother in another room, who appears confused and reacts with shock. It is revealed that Su-mi has in fact been alone in the house with her father, and the events that transpired between Su-yeon and the stepmother were merely manifestations of her multiple personalities. The father and real stepmother take Su-mi back to the hospital. Later, the stepmother hears someone running upstairs in Su-yeon's bedroom. She enters the room, which is extremely cold. A ghost appears, and the stepmother looks terrified as something is approaching her. Her scream is heard off-camera and she is presumably killed by the ghost. Flashback scenes reveal that the father had come with the stepmother after what was an apparent marriage or engagement. His ex-wife, the uncle and the uncle's wife are also there. Tensions at the dining room table cause Su-mi and Su-yeon to leave. The sisters's real mother comforts Su-yeon, then hangs herself in the closet when Su-yeon goes to sleep. Su-yeon awakens and finds her mother's body. She shakes the lifeless body in an attempt to revive it, and pulls the closet down on top of her, weakly calling for help. The stepmother discovers the wardrobe, and is startled when she sees Su-yeon's hand underneath, scratching the floor. She does nothing to help her and quickly leaves the room. She changes her mind and attempts to go back, but encounters Su-mi. The two have a heated confrontation as Su-yeon is slowly crushed to death by the weight of the wardrobe. Su-mi leaves the house. For a brief moment, she looks back as though sensing something is wrong, but sees her stepmother and continues her walk, unaware of what has happened. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「A Tale of Two Sisters」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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