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
Han Hyo-joo
Jung So-yool
Chun Woo-hee
Seo Yeon-hee
Yoo Yeon-seok
Kim Yoon-woo
Park Sung-woong
Police Chief
Jang Young-nam
San-wol
Lee Han-wi
Manager
Ryu Hye-young
Kim Ok-hyang
Kim Su-an
Young Jung So-yool
Cha Ji-yeon
Lee Nan-young
Keum Sae-rok
Adult Gisaengs
Kim Young-min
PD
Ahn Na-young
Adult Gisaeng
Bek Hyun-jin
Park Il-sung
Kim Bo-yoon
Ha-poom
Choi Jeongeun
Baby Gisaeng
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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