Here’s a movie you won’t being seeing on Hi-YAH! Get ready for some edge-of-your-seat action with Days and Nights of Confrontation, a Joseon Art Film Studio production, which is the primary state-run film studio in North Korea.
“Days and Nights of Confrontation” Poster
With this one, North Korean cinema is having a Shiri moment and aiming for a more bombastic kind of action flick.
The plot of Days and Nights of Confrontation (대결의 낮과 밤) mirrors the real 2004 Ryongchon Station explosion, which occurred hours after Kim Jong Il’s train passed through (presumed to be an assassination attempted on Kim’s life). While the film’s message is clearly propaganda, it packs in a mix of Hollywood-style action, chases, fights, and martial arts sequences – one of which may have been inspired by Jackie Chan’s Police Story 3.
Days and Nights of Confrontation recently aired on North Korea’s state TV channel, but to save you the trouble of booking a ticket to North Korea, here’s the full movie (no subtitles) for your viewing pleasure. If you want to skip and see that Police Story 3-inspired fight, jump to the 2nd time-stamped video:
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The only Northern Korean movie I’ve seen was Pulgasari, a kaiju film directed by a South Korean filmmaker who Kim Jong Il had kidnapped so he could have his own communist Godzilla movie. The funny part is the movie rips on Kims entire regime.
Martial arts movies have a long history of being propaganda: lots of anti-Japanese movies, lots of anti- westerners, pro communist government, etc… so it’ll be curious to see a film where people have to pretend their leader doesn’t poop and hit 18 hole in ones at golf his first time playing.
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I’m not surprised that dictator ass-kissers are also poor film makers! None of the shots match up between camera cuts, and that fight choreography is just a joke. This propaganda piece is the equivalent of the film makers taking a shit on camera.
I hope this Kim isn’t inspired by his dad to kidnap a film maker and force him make movies for his regime. The American regime is only a few steps away from doing so!
It looks like mainland Chinese film from the late 90s. lol
Do people still use “LOL”?
THAT’s laughable.
WORD, to all of that. It’s been bad enough watching HK turn into the mainland. (You guys see the trailer for Wong Kar-Wai’s series? The fuck? I hear the series is better than the trailer, but again, what the fuck?) Nobody wants to watch this bullshit.