With the South Korean cinema boom of the last 20 years, it’s easy to forget about their northerly neighbor when it comes to film. I had no idea it was a bucket list item of mind until I realized North Korea has made movies. Now some of you people are probably saying “Zig, how could you be so naive?!? Of course they’ve made films!” But I suppose I’ve always viewed it as incompatible in my head, that and well, no one in my life (both actually and on the internet) has never once spoken about a North Korean film.
Perhaps a cinematic landmark in its own right and an international co-production between North Korea, Japan and China, Pulgasari is a 1985 kaiju film in the vein of Godzilla. It’s a testament to those involved that Pulgasari even exists, as the backstory is one of those...
