Kim Ki-young remade his own 1960 film twice, and Woman of Fire is the first of the two. The premise is repeated almost exactly: a composer's household takes in a young woman from the country as help, an affair follows, and the house is destroyed from inside by what it did to her. The staircase, the piano, the poison and the two-storey house that traps everyone in it are all reused. What changes is the colour, the period and the ending's degree of ambiguity. Kim went back a third time in 1982, which is unusual enough on its own: three versions of one story by one director across twenty-two years.