Devin Faraci covers Kim Jong-Il’s crazy contribution to world cinema.
Over the years Kim Jong-Il has worked on dozens of film, and he even wrote a book on the subject, called On The Art of Cinema.
But perhaps his greatest cinematic moment came with Pulgasari, a kaiju movie made in 1985. That the dictator of North Korea should ‘executive produce’ a monster movie that was a thinly veiled critique of capitalism is one thing, that he should kidnap a South Korean filmmaker to get it done is something else altogether.
