Fifteen children of a seaside village sail across the sea to a nearby island with a desire to live even a day free from the cruel ship owner. But on their way back home, they get astray in the storm only to reach an uninhabited island. Experiencing different changes, they gradually pool their effort and wisdom to overcome all difficulties and return home at last.
9 teen(ish) boys, 3 teen girls, 3 preteen boys, and a puppy. Typical childish humor and the sort of difficulties you would expect on an isolated island. There are frequent sentimental or upbeat musical interludes. The children find their successes through hard work, cooperation and positive action.
The villains include a sadistic exploitative capitalist couple back home and vicious long-haired hippie American sailors who plan to sell the children into slavery. There is a sympathetic and helpful African American character, but he is rather stereotyped. As North Korea was and is ethnically homogeneous, inevitably he is played by a Korean man in blackface. Contains a few scenes of enthusiastic animal slaughter. The video quality is very grubby, as can be seen from the screencaps. Overall I enjoyed it, although I believe I have honestly represented the elements that may concern some.
I managed to retrieve a slightly better version from Uloz before the owner marked it as private!!
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The trick is first figuring out which few might have stories OK for FLM, perhaps specifically movies made for children ... and making sure that they are not animated!
I still have a North Korean monster movie to watch, I am just sad that it does not seem to have any children in it. There is even a Minilla ripoff in it!! (aka Son of Godzilla.) SO obvious there should be kids!
The trick is first figuring out which few might have stories OK for FLM, perhaps specifically movies made for children ... and making sure that they are not animated!
Nothing if not thorough! Very impressive archival work!
Thanks, but it is not "thorough" yet because I have not looked at all 794! There are also plenty of movies listed outside of IMDB with more useful information. This exact movie title from 1985 is on IMDB as an unrelated Korean anime! I think that listing is an error -- or it may be deliberate political sabotage against a film that is clearly propaganda itself.
Infinity wrote: ↑Mon Jun 20, 2022 11:36 am
Was not expecting to see a North Korean movie on here! Is it the first one ever posted?
Apparently so! It is possible that there might be something misidentified as South Korea, but that is unlikely. North Korea does not have a huge film industry, and not many of those films get outside distribution.
When ghost created the much-needed South Korea forum and moved the films out from Unlisted, I interpreted that as a challenge to find movies from across the border so there is at least some representation.