Chilsu and Mansu

Chilsu and Mansu Hangul RRChilsuwa Mansu is a 1988 South Korean film, and noted director Park Kwangsus debut film. Though not a boxoffice hit only attracting 73,751 people in theatres, the film is remembered as a major step towards freedom of expression in South Korean cinema.

1988 was the year of the Seoul Olympics, and a time of great political and social change for South Korea. Massive street protests against the military government and on behalf of workers rights had recently reached their peak. However the Korean society portrayed through cinema in those days little resembled the passions on display in the street. Government censors, wielding an iron grip over the film industry, ensured that the slightest hint of social criticism was clipped in the screenplay or in the editing room before reaching audiences.Chilsu and Mansu seemingly depicts the hopes and aspiration of Korean youth in the late 1980s, when the country was gradually democratizing. However, as the film progresses, the film does not turn out to be what the audience intended and ends with a standoff between the protagonists and the establishment. ........

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