Fire Woman (1970)

Kim Ki-young is one of those directors who essentially liked to make the same movie over and over again. Fire Woman is basically a remake of The Housemaid shot in glorious 'Scope and Technicolor. This time the husband writes pop songs and the family lives on a poultry farm. There is plenty of Kim's trademark weirdness to go around here. We have his usual love of rats, bodies ground up into chicken feed, and plenty of other loony antics. Usually when a director starts making increasingly expressionistic and weird movies, they reach a point where it becomes fluff. Not so with Kim, the weirder he gets, the better. And as usual he packed this one full of scathing critiques of contemporary Korean society. The characters are more worried about preserving their honor and good name as opposed to their lives and sanity. Women are forever burdened by the explosion of unrelenting capitalism. There is no cure for the Kim Ki-young fever, just let the temperature keep rising!