Widow Dance (1983) is a movie based on Lee Cheol-yong’s novel. It is the same as Lee Jang-ho’s other movie, Children of Darkness, in regards to be based on Lee’s novel. The film criticizes society by describing the life of widows who have divorced for different reasons. The movie consists of three episodes. The first episode is Mal-suk (Lee Bo-hee), who commits fraud on a suitor to deprive him of money by pretending to be divorced from a rich Korean-Japanese guy. Her fraud is revealed and then she is finally arrested. The second episode is about Mal-suk’s sister-in-law (Park Won-suk). Mal-suk’s sister-in-law becomes a widow after her husband dies in a car accident. The last episode follows the theme of the previous two episodes. The widows lead hopeless and on-going lives. (Nam Dong-chul)