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Pulgasari [a] is an epic monster film [i] directed and produced by Shin Sang-ok in 1985 during his North Korean abduction.A co-production between North Korea, Japan, and China, it is considered a remake of Bulgasari, a 1962 South Korean film that also depicts Bulgasari/Pulgasari, a creature from Korean folklore.
Features North-Korean built planes based on the Il-2 and Il-10, models which were never used by the KPA. [79] 1984: A Hedgehog Defeats a Tiger: 호랑이를 이긴 고슴도치: Children's film [80] [81] 1984: An Emissary of No Return: 돌아오지 않은 밀사: Shin Sang-ok: Kim Jun Sik, Ryang Hae Sung, Kim Yun Hong: Historical/Drama: Shin's ...
Korean police captain Lee Jung-chool (Song Kang-ho) has been charged by the Japanese colonial government with rooting out members of the country's resistance movement.But while Lee has a history of selling out his own people to secure a favorable position with the Japanese, he’s been hit harder than usual by the death of Kim Jang-ok (Park Hee-soon), a resistance fighter who used to be his ...
North Korea's principal producer of feature films is the Korean Art Film Studio, a state-run studio founded in 1947 and located outside of Pyongyang.Other North Korean film studios include the Korean Documentary Film Studio (founded in 1946), the April 25 Film Studio of the Korean People's Army (founded in 1959 and previously known as the February 8 Cinema Studio) and the Korean Science and ...
Films about North Korea–South Korea relations (1 C, 17 P) Pages in category "Films set in North Korea" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total.
Charles K. Armstrong writes in his book, Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World 1950–1992, that "Kim took North Korean arts in a direction that seemed specifically designed to ensure his father's favor: under his guidance, new films and operas focused as never before on the anti-Japanese struggle of Kim Il Sung and his comrades in ...
Hong Kil-dong is often listed as among the best North Korean films; authors have noted the influence of Shin Sang-ok, a South Korean director abducted by the North Korean regime in 1978 and forced to make films. It is also known for its lack of propaganda and its criticism of policies of the North Korean regime (most notably the Songbun policy ...
Souls Protest (Korean: 살아있는 령혼들; lit. Living Souls) is a 2000 North Korean film directed by Kim Chun-song.. The film is an epic dramatisation of a mysterious explosion sinking the Ukishima Maru, while it was on a trip to repatriate Koreans in the wake of World War II.