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The Red Shoes

2005 · 108 min · Director: Yong-gyun Kim, Kim Yong-gyun ★ IMDb 5.7 · 3,379 ratings

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After finding that her husband is unfaithful and cheats her with a lover, Sun-jae moves to a decadent cheap apartment at Goksung Station with her daughter Han Tae-soo. While traveling home in the subway, Sun-jae finds a pair of red shoes and brings them home. Tae-soo becomes fascinated by the shoes, which brings greed and jealousy to whoever sees them, while Sun-jae has visions and nightmares with ghosts and blood. When her friend Kim-mi Hee steals the shoes, she has an accident and dies. Meanwhile, the architect decorator Cho-in Choi that is dating Sun-jae, researches and discloses that the mystery is related to a picture of 1944. His further investigation unravels the tragic fate of the original owner of the shoes.

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The Red Shoes (2005) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Fear 35%, Disturbing 25%, Tension 20%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure

  1. Fear35%

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Why it feels this way

The strongest emotional signals are Fear, Disturbing, Tension. Genres: Thriller, Mystery, Horror. AI estimate.

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Emotional journey

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  • Tension
  • Curiosity
  • Disturbing

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No dominant emotion

Dominant emotion: Curiosity

Dominant emotion: Tension

Dominant emotion: Sadness

Dominant emotion: Disturbing

Tension
Curiosity
Disturbing
Emotional journey Emotional intensity over the film’s runtime, from quieter to stronger on a fixed 0–1 scale. Hatched intervals have insufficient subtitle evidence. The table provides the values. Not enough subtitle evidence
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Dominant emotion

Intensity dips around 18 %, then rises around 28 %, then peaks around 88 %.Ending hidden

Emotional journey
%Approximate minuteDominant emotionOverall intensityTensionCuriosityDisturbing
2.5 %≈ 3′Curiosity40 %37 %30 %10 %
7.5 %≈ 8′Tension38 %34 %25 %11 %
12.5 %≈ 14′Sadness33 %23 %20 %10 %
17.5 %≈ 19′Sadness30 %16 %15 %6 %
22.5 %≈ 24′Tension32 %21 %16 %8 %
27.5 %≈ 30′Sadness43 %34 %25 %15 %
32.5 %≈ 35′Tension50 %44 %35 %21 %
37.5 %≈ 41′Curiosity46 %41 %39 %23 %
42.5 %≈ 46′Tension49 %45 %41 %34 %
47.5 %≈ 51′Curiosity60 %57 %50 %48 %
52.5 %≈ 57′Tension66 %65 %56 %46 %
57.5 %≈ 62′Tension69 %68 %64 %44 %
62.5 %≈ 68′Curiosity71 %69 %70 %45 %
67.5 %≈ 73′Tension71 %70 %69 %44 %
72.5 %≈ 78′Curiosity69 %69 %69 %45 %
77.5 %≈ 84′Curiosity73 %73 %69 %57 %
82.5 %≈ 89′Tension83 %83 %66 %74 %
87.5 %≈ 95′Tension84 %81 %65 %78 %
92.5 %≈ 100′Disturbing77 %70 %65 %73 %
97.5 %≈ 105′Not enough subtitle evidenceNot enough subtitle evidenceNot enough subtitle evidenceNot enough subtitle evidenceNot enough subtitle evidence
Riches to rags

Rags to riches: The emotional tone rises from negative to positive.

Riches to rags: The emotional tone falls from positive to negative.

Man in a hole: The tone falls, then recovers.

Icarus: The tone rises, then falls.

Cinderella: The tone rises, falls, then rises again.

Oedipus: The tone falls, rises, then falls again.

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Cast

KH
Kim Hye-soo

Sun-jae

KS
Kim Seong-su

KS
Kim Sung-su

In-cheol

YP
Yeon-ah Park

PY
Park Yeon-ah

Tae-su

KS
Koh Soo-hee

Mi-hee

LE
Lee Eol

Sung-joon

KJ
Kim Ji-eun

Keiko

SH
Sa Hyeon-jin

Jung-a

Lee Yong-nyeo

Hunchback Woman

JD
Jo Deok-jae

Detective

PH
Park Hyun-young

Advertising Woman

SJ
Seo Jin-won

Aide of Keiko's Father

JH
Jeon Hun-tae

Realty Dealer

SS
Son Se-kwang

Jeong Ha-seob

PP
Park Pal-young

Keiko's Father

AS
Ahn Soo-ho

Drunk

PS
Park Sun-hye

Student

Details

Directed by
Yong-gyun Kim, Kim Yong-gyun
Written by
Hans Christian Andersen, Yong-gyun Kim, Ma Sang-Ryeol, Kim Yong-gyun
Type
Movies
Released
2005
Runtime
108 min
Country
South Korea
Ratings
★ IMDb 5.7 · 3,379 ratings
Feels mostly
Fear
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