Trivia / A Tale of Two Sisters

• Box Office Bomb: Budget: $3.7 million. Box office $1 million.
• Completely Different Title:
  • Original: Rose Flower, Red Lotus
  • English: A Tale of Two Sisters
  • Brazil: Fear
  • Finland: A Bad Connection
  • Hong Kong: Elder Sister
  • Japan: Chest of Drawers
  • Mexico: The Possessed
  • Taiwan: Ghost
  • Turkey: Dark Secrets
• What Could Have Been: There was originally going to be a subplot involving poison, which the girls' mother drank before hanging herself. Su-mi was to take some of the poison and use it to contaminate Eun-ju's medication. Kim-jee Woon realised that this could have become problematic as that would mean Su-mi was poisoning her own medication, so it was dropped, and Su-mi's own desire to die manifested itself in a different way in the finished product.
  • The original ending was going to have Su-mi take a fatal dose of medication. After Su-yeon's ghost briefly visits Su-mi in her hospital room, finally getting her to respond, she returns to her former room to (presumably) kill Eun-ju in vengeance. Afterwards, Su-mi lies back in her bed with a small smile on her face. The alternate ending continues, showing a discarded and nearly empty pill bottle on the floor, and a brief shot of a lifeless Su-mi, who committed suicide, presumably to finally reunite with her mother and sister.
  • Su-mi father initially fiddled with a video camera (only one scene of that is seen in the final product) to reveal to Su-mi her condition.
  • There were initially scenes of the doctors watching video recordings of Su-mi and putting both a psychological and supernatural diagnosis on her condition. The director realized that naming or explaining the diagnosis would ruin the ambiguous charm of the movie.

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