South Korea The Villainess returned 69.9× its production cost, earning $8.7M against a $125K budget — one of the highest-return South Korea films in our catalog.
Synopsis
악녀
“An endless vengeance begins”
A young girl is raised as a killer in the Yanbian province of China. She hides her identity and travels to South Korea where she hopes to lead a quiet life but becomes involved with two mysterious men.
Audience Engagement
600 audience reviews — more than 97% of South Korea films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 85th percentile among South Korea films.
Budget & Box Office Efficiency
At a 2h 9m runtime, production spent $968 per minute on screen and earned $68K per minute back.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with The Villainess. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Action + Drama in South Korea
114 South Korea titles in our catalog blend the Action and Drama genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding The Villainess itself).
The 2016–2018 South Korea Window
The Villainess holds position #180 of 268 South Korea films in the 2016–2018 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 2010s South Korea Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2010s in South Korea, 719 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when The Villainess premiered alongside 88 others.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 88 other South Korea films in 2017.
The 868th South Korea title from South Korea we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1955).
Our South Korea catalog contains 1,397 titles in total (931 films).
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on The Villainess, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- hand to hand combat · 4
- katana · 20
- national intelligence service (nis) · 12
- korean chinese · 7
- revenge · 210
- assassin · 47
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #770 of 1,397 South Korea films indexed here (45th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Among South Korea Action productions specifically: #137 of 266 (top 52%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | South Korea |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Korean |
| Production Companies | Apeitda, Next Entertainment World, Contents Panda |
| Runtime | 2h 9m |
| Release Date | June 8, 2017 |
| IMDb | tt6777338 |