The Red Shoes (Hangul: 분홍신, Revised Romanization Bunhongshin ) is a 2005 horror film written and directed by Kim Yong-gyun. It is inspired by the fairy tale of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen, in which an unfaithful stepdaughter could not stop dancing in her enchanted red shoes.
Plot
The film opens with a girl wearing glasses waiting for a friend in a subway station. She notices a pair of pink shoes at the edge of the platform. As she approaches them, eerie music plays in the background until she is startled by another girl with long hair who seems to appear out of nowhere. The shoes mysteriously are already on the glasses girl's feet as she explains she just found them there. The long haired girl coldly claims the shoes are hers, that she saw them first, and the two begin to fight. Eventually, the long haired girl shoves the glasses girl to the ground, and walks away with the shoes, which mysteriously end up on her feet. Seeming happy and completely unlike her behaviour when she was fighting over the shoes, she walks down an abandoned corridor until she hears footsteps behind her. She turns and looks terrified as something rushes towards her, knocking her to the ground. We see the shoes some distance away from her, filled blood that sinks into the shoes, then disappears as if it was never there. The girl looks horrified, but this time with her eyes are fixed in the direction of the shoes. She begins to scream, and as the camera pulls away, we see her sitting in a trail of blood leading away from her with her feet cut off at the ankles.
After a scene of a mysterious beautiful young woman with long hair dancing, the protagonist, Sun-jae (Kim Hye-su), is introduced. Her husband, Seong-jun (Lee Eol) is sitting in the living room watching their daughter Tae-soo (Park Yeon-ah) practice ballet. Sun-jae calls for him to come and eat, but he is more concerned with his daughter's dancing. When he finally does eat, he notices that the meat on his plate is still somewhat raw. He gives Sun-jae a disparaging look, and leaves the table.
The next morning we see Tae-soo causing an uproar about wearing her red ballet flats she wears for dance class to school. Sun-jae wins the argument, and after seeing Tae-soo off to the bus, Sun-jae is dropped off to work by her husband. She tries to convince him to take their daughter to ballet practice, just this time. However, he does not agree. Instead, he tells Sun-Jae to not walk their daughter to practice, but to carefully trail her (since the daughter is old enough to walk herself). Sun-jae does this but ends up losing the daughter after nearly being run over by a car.She searches frantically, and after looking everywhere finally checks her house. As she goes upstairs, she hears some passionate moaning. It is revealed that her husband having an affair with an unknown woman. We see the woman wearing one of Sun-jae's blue stilettos. The husband remarks to the other woman that they look better on her. Downstairs, Tae-soo has returned home, but Sun-jae stops her from going upstairs and seeing what she saw. They wait outside in a nearby playground, Sun-jae in tears.
A divorce leaves mother and daughter looking for a new place to live. They end up moving into a cheap apartment with a blinking light. After an attempt to fix the light, the circuit blows and Sun-jae gets debris in her eye, forcing her to wear an eye-patch for a while. WHile on a train, she sees the pink shoes near to her and takes them back to her apartment. In addition, Sun-jae recruits interior designer In-cheol (Kim Seong-su) to design and paint murals in her new eye clinic. Though he expresses interest in her early on, she appears wary of him during their frequent meetings. When her eye heals completely, however, and she says she can "see him more clearly,", returns his interest, and invites him to her home for dinner.
During his visit, the daughter shows her displeasure. She claims her father has visited earlier, which is not true, as he was not told the location of their new home, and declares she hates In-cheol, which gets her sent to her room. The evening is further cursed when an unknown, hysterical women bursts in, yelling about her lost lover (Sun-jae's husband). She physically attacks Sun-Jae and taunts her, In-cheol having to yank the woman off Sun-jae multiple times. After In-cheol gets the woman out and things calm down, a shaken Sun-jae asks In-cheol to "please leave" and she enters the bathroom to wash her face. She begins to speak in daughter's voice and mimics her saying that she hates In-cheol and how her father would too, all while looking in the mirror. Then, Sun-jae hears phantom baby noises and checks warily behind her, seeing nothing. When she turns back to the sink, she sees it's filled with blood and a crow is flapping around in it. Later that night,she dreams of more frightening images of death and dismemberment involving her daughter. Then she awakens to find all is fine.
Days later, Sun-jae wears the shoes to impress In-cheol. He thinks she looks far more attractive with makeup and the pink shoes on. Tae-Soo and Sun-Jae also get into frequent arguments over who gets to posess the shoes. Sun-Jae is visited by her friend Kim Mi-hee (Go Su-hee), a successful eye specialist. After some conversation, Kim Mi-hee enters the room of the daughter who has become obsessively attached to the pink shoes - regularly staring at them, trying them on, and at one point hiding them from Sun-jae under her bed. Kim Mi-hee says she must have them and takes them forcefully. Later on that night we see Kim Mi-hee walking down a street full of stores. With bags hanging from her arms, she gives Sun-jae a call to assure her that the shoes will be returned. She remarks on how young the shoes make her feel. Continuing to walk, she stops in her tracks to look at a wedding dress, then cautiously looks around her. It's an empty street, but it's obvious that she feels someone is watching. She is then lifted up into the air by a mysterious force. Moments later she is found dead with one eye missing, resting on broken glass and a bloodied wedding gown.
In-cheol realizes the shoes are the same ones in a photo circulating in ads everywhere. The ad features the ballet dancer from the flashbacks, who is the original owner of the shoes, which she is holding in the photo. Sun-jae and In-cheol go to the advertising agency. An agent, after some persuasion tells them it was an old image found on the Internet. They learn the young woman was a Japanese dancer named Keiko 60 years earlier who worked near the metro station and Sun-jae's apartment building.
There is a flashback of an attractive but nasty looking woman called Oki, who sees a hunched-backed servant girl (the woman who lives in the basement of Sun-jae's home) holding the pink shoes. Oki embraces Keiko, takes the shoes away from her and wears them for a group photo shoot. Keiko, who had the shoes stolen from the first place suddenly attacks Oki and tries to get her shoes back.
Back in the present, Sun-jae remembers the hunched-backed woman she met at the elevator, and how frightened she was of the shoes. Sun-jae asks the woman who owned the shoes. The old woman smiles and laughs eerily, saying that Sun-jae shouldn't have worn something so pretty without asking and that she must return them or die like Oki apparently did. Sun-jae screams at the old woman telling her she knows about the shoes. Soon we see them at a car park, the old woman threatening Sun-jae, who she believes was 'Oki' in her past life. Sun-jae notices Tae-soo again near a car holding the red shoes, staring at Sun-jae with bloodied eyes.
The background fades to white in the past with Keiko stumbling upon her fiancé making love with the cruel Oki. The girl faints and falls down the stairs to the floor below. The man leaves the bed and comforts her, Oki, in her jealousy grabs a candlestick and hits the man with it, knocking him out and then precedes to beat Keiko to death. The scene cuts to show Oki in pouring rain, dumping the girl's body in a grave she dug herself. Oki severs Keikos feet at the ankles (like the long haired school girl at the start) and she removes the shoes and holds them up like prizes, while the hunch backed servant who gave the shoes to Oki hides behind a tree watching the whole event.
The background fades to white and then fades in on Oki dancing in the red shoes on stage for a crowd of officials and Keiko's former fiance. The fiance leaves during the performance as he keeps seeingimages of a decomposing Keiko dancing. After a parade of women dancers, the background fades to black and we see the cruel woman with the fiance in a wedding. Oki smiles, but the smile soon fades when she notices blood on her feet seeping up from the edges of the red shoes. She begins dancing in circles uncontrollably, not being able to stop even when the man holds her by her arms. A mysterious force suddenly raises a long rope and binds the cruel woman and the man until they are choked to death. White confetti is then released.As she hangs in the air, the red shoes fall off Oki's bloodied feet and to floor, where they land in the snow confetti.
Cut to the present. The old servant woman is sobbing over a grave (Keiko's) that is being dug up by the authorities. Sun-jae and Tae-soo stand nearby. Tae-soo tosses a flower into the coffin along with the red shoes, thereby returning them to their owner as the servant woman said she should.
We see In-cheol sitting in his house, holding a blue high-heeled shoe. Sun-jae goes to visit In-cheo and sees a woman driving away from his house. Sun-jae asks In-cheol why he 'did it', meaning why did he have an assignation with the woman. He says he met with the other woman because he's afraid of Sun-jae, and accuses her of mu
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