Empress Chung

Empress Chung (2005)

왕후 심청

Feel her love. Feel her courage. See the miracle.

Based on the famous Korean folk tale, a young princess makes a drastic decision in order to save her father's eyesight.

Date of release
2005-08-12
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (2)
Runtime
1h 33m
Genres
Animation, Family, Fantasy
Director
Nelson Shin

Casting

Interesting facts

Empress Chung is a 2005 animated epic fantasy film, produced in North and South Korea and directed by Nelson Shin, on whose story the screenplay is also based. Empress Chung was the first film to release simultaneously in both North and South Korea. It saw critical acclaim and won awards at two film festivals, but was a commercial failure, earning US$140,000 against a US$6.5 million budget.

Production

Empress Chung was the personal project of Nelson Shin, a South Korean animator that founded AKOM. He spent seven years and US$6.5 million of his own money on the film. In order to save costs, he collaborated with the North Korean SEK Studio because North Korean animators are paid less than South Korean animators. The film made use of 500 animators, 400 of which were North Korean. Shin visited Pyongyang eighteen times to supervise production.

Shin incorporated aspects of his personal life into the film, such as turning his pets into characters. He also did historical research for the film; the film was initially planned to be set in the Goryeo era, but it was rewritten into the Joseon era to maintain historical accuracy. Several locations in the film are based on real Korean temples and palaces, including Gyeongbokgung.

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