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Post by truth on Jun 9, 2021 18:08:53 GMT -5
Interesting film about Kim Duhan, a South Korean mobster during Japanese Occupation Period en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Du-hanJust watched this film yesterday after reading an article about this movie being popular in North Korea(People watch it secretly, of course. All South Korean media is banned, but I heard that people who get caught watching this movie is especially more punished than people who get caught watching other South Korean movies) I think part of the reason why North Korean government might be more persistent on this movie is because the life in the Japanese Occupation looks better than current North Korea. People going to theaters to watch a movie, freedom to wear whatever you want, freedom of religion, better economic quality etc. Less freedom of speech in South Korean standard, but much much more freedom of speech than today's North Korea. Many of the older generation in North Korea apparently told their children that life in Japanese occupation was happier according to North Korean defectors. |
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Post by ajk on Jun 9, 2021 21:41:16 GMT -5
That's pretty darned interesting. I wonder if other things that deal with the occupation period get similar treatment by the NK government, like the historicals that have been made about it.
Your explanation certainly makes sense.
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Post by truth on Jun 9, 2021 22:57:57 GMT -5
Fun fact : Kim Duhan is the maternal grandfather of actor Song Il-Gook
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Post by sageuk on Jun 10, 2021 0:20:22 GMT -5
I've seen this movie. I watched it twice.
When I told my dad I saw this, he said he watched it in theatres when it first came out.
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Post by truth on Jun 12, 2021 14:04:51 GMT -5
Just watched the 2nd film that came out on 1991 and I now understand another reason why North Korean government is upset about the movie. The movie mentions the name "Kim Il-Sung" as a traitor and murderer of Kim Jwa-Jin, an independence fighter and father of Kim Du-Han. This Kim Il-Sung(born 1897) is not the same person as North Korea's Dear Leader(born 1912). He just happens to have the same name. North Korean citizens who watch this movie might mistake this Kim Il-Sung as their Dear Leader, who they have been brainwashed as the greatest hero in the entire history of Korea. Unfortunately, the government can't clarify and never clarified to their citizens that this Kim Il-Sung is not the same Kim Il-Sung as their Dear Leader. 3 reasons in my opinion 1. By clarifying, they would have to mention the name of the movie, and it'll make people who have never heard about the movie want to watch it 2. They have brainwashed their people that their leader Kim Il-Sung is "one-and-only" and no one else ever had the same name as him. Clarifying that there was a different Kim Il-Sung would be contradictory to their years of brainwashing 3. They have brainwashed their people that their leader Kim Il-Sung was the only existing indepence fighter who fought for Korea's indepdence and he was the person who liberated entire Korean peninusla by defeating the Japenese imperial army. They would have to mention real freedom fighter's name(Kim Jwa-Jin), who has done more for independence than their fraud leader Kim Il-Sung ever did. People would then find out there were other freedom fighters beside their leader and would make people curious about real history. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Chwa-chin |
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Post by sageuk on Jun 12, 2021 15:50:22 GMT -5
I once read that while Kim Ilsung was a resistance fighter, he was nothing special, and that his attacks were mostly on unimportant outposts that the Japanese Imperials wouldn't have cared about.
Kim Jwajin's wiki page never mentioned who killed him nor who orchestrated his assassination.
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Post by truth on Jun 12, 2021 15:56:01 GMT -5
Kim Jwajin's wiki page never mentioned who killed him nor who orchestrated his assassination. His Korean wiki page does mention Kim Il-Sung as his killer, who as I said above is not the same Kim Il-Sung as the North Korean leader. |
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