

Two best friends, So-yool and Yeon-hee, dream of becoming the top artists in Seoul together. But their friendship doesn't last long as Yoon-woo, So-yool's first love and songwriter, falls in love with Yeon-hee and her voice. So-yool's feeling of jealousy and inferiority towards Yeon-hee grows by the day, and she eventually makes a drastic decision to bring the two lovers down.
Cinematography
Every frame looks like a hand-tinted postcard from 1943
Acting
Han Hyo-joo's smile curdles into something terrifying
Score
Gayo songs that break your heart twice — once for melody, once for history
Director
Park Heung-sik
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film uses the real-life suppression of Korean language and music under Japanese rule as a mirror for personal silencing — So-yool literally replaces Yeon-hee's voice with her own.
Han Hyo-joo and Chun Woo-hee both trained for months in traditional Korean vocal techniques and Japanese enka-style singing to perform their own numbers.
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