Character Relationships in Pieta

Hun-cheol (played by Woo Ki-hong) appears in Pieta. A factory worker who takes a small loan that rapidly accumulates into a massive debt. He is deliberately crippled by Gang-do to facilitate an insurance fraud scheme, leaving him unable to work and forcing him and his wife to survive on roadside food sales. Myeong-ja (played by Kang Eun-jin) appears in Pieta. Hun-cheol's desperate wife who attempts to seduce Gang-do to buy time for repayment. After her husband is permanently disabled, she works selling food by the highway. Unknowingly driving a truck that crushes Gang-do, she inadvertently becomes instrumental in his death.

Character Relationship Map: Pieta

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Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

Story Analysis

A violent debt collector is forced to confront abandonment, revenge, and the human consequences of his cruelty.

Plot Progression

  1. Debt, Injury, And Survival
  2. The Claimed Mother
  3. Fear Behind Affection
  4. The Debt Comes Due
  5. Pity And Final Atonement

Directed by Kim Ki-duk

Pieta (2012) · 7/10 · drama

Content sources

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Related entry on Wikidata (Q483197), public domain (CC0).