North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, who died last weekend enjoyed Western movies. In fact, she reportedly has more than 20,000 videos and DVDs. Kim's video and DVD collection also includes Japanese monster movies.
"Cinema is an important place in the development of art and literature," said Kim Jong-il in his essay in 1987 to review the movie theater and film director.
In his essay, Kim Jong-il has also written commentary about the movie and also includes the creative process in filmmaking.
A number of criticisms of which reads, "This film has a plot that is not neat and can not attract the audience's attention and emotion."
In other comments, Kim Jong-il said, "Not a single good production from the side of ideology and art can blaze of creative group whose members do not have a unified ideology."
Kim's penchant for enjoying the film continues to grow in extreme films. In 1978, long before succeeding his father, Kim Il Sung, North Korean leader, he ordered the kidnapping of South Korean film director.
The director, Shin San-ok, was kidnapped during a visit to Hong Kong. The agents dragged her into the car and took him to Pyongyang.
He was detained in prison for several years and survived by eating "grass, rice, and rice" as punishment for trying to escape.
After four years in prison, he was suddenly freed and reunited with his wife, Choe Eun-hui, in a lavish party that held North Korean government.
In his autobiography, Shin wrote about his conversation with Kim Jong-il. "North Korea's only a film director making a routine thing," said Kim who was a Minister of Culture.
"They have no new ideas," he added. "Their work has the same plot. All of our movies are filled with tears. I have not ordered them to describe things like that."
Shin and his wife, Choe, also asked to make a film by the regime. Seven movies that they produced at the time under the orders of Kim is Pulgasari, the communist version of Godzilla, and drama films, including films with scenes of the country's first kiss.
Shin and his wife were placed under house arrest if they did not produce the movie. But Shin said he could easily meet with Kim Jong-il.
"He heard what I said because we are from South Korea," said Shin told the Guardian newspaper in 2003. "Although we criticize something, he wanted us to be honest. But others could be killed if telling the truth," he added.
Shin and his wife finally managed to escape during a visit to Vienna in 1986, shortly after completing the film Pulgasari. This film is one of North Korean films which can be viewed in general, including on YouTube, complete with the inscription Executive Producer Kim Jong-il. (BBC/OL-3)
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