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Released
2004 · FILM

Samaritan Girl

Jae-Young, a young woman navigating a hidden life as an amateur prostitute, must confront her growing feelings for a client while struggling to maintain trust with her loyal but envious best friend, who controls every aspect of her dangerous world.

“Let him that is without sin first cast the stone at her”

Directed by
Kim Ki Duk
Written by
Kim Ki Duk
Runtime
96 min
Language
KO
Drama

Synopsis

Jae-Young is an amateur prostitute who engages in sexual relationships with men, while her best friend Yeo-Jin manages her affairs, arranging dates, handling the money, and ensuring discretion. When Jae-Young develops feelings for one of her clients, she hides her emotions out of respect for Yeo-Jin, who is envious of the connection.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 16

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Kim Ki DukShot by Sang Jae SeonScored by Ji Bark

Box Office

2004 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.3× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$328K

Budget$1.0M
Worldwide gross$328K
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Samariade
  • Samaritan Girlen
  • Hangeulxx

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