A Triangular Trap

The legendary Lee Man-Hee died in 1975, while he was busy editing A Road to Sampo. His penultimate film, A Triangular Trap, was the third remake of his first success from 1962, Call 112. It's about the unfortunate heiress Ji-Suk, who is plagued by memories of Sang-Kuk, who kidnapped her when she was studying, raped her and forced her to bear his child. When Ji-Suk returns from the funeral of a rich aunt, she is pestered, but saved by someone who happens to be passing. Something beautiful blossoms with her saviour, but when Sang-Kuk gets out of jail, the misery really starts. Like many Korean films at the time, it was shot in the cheap Techniscope format. Recently developed technology makes restoration possible so that the film - a visual masterpiece despite the evidently chaotic structure and other sins against the thriller genre - can finally be seen again.