Love, Love, My Love

Love, Love, My Love (1985)

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The plot is based on the Korean folk tale, The Tale of Chunhyang. Chunhyang falls in love with the upper-class Ri Mong-ryong, but they must marry in secret. Mong-ryong is sent away to become a government official. While he is away, Chunhyang is imprisoned by a corrupt governor. Mong-ryong returns just in time to save her from execution and the two can publicly proclaim their love.

Date of release
1985-01-01
TMDB
10.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
2h 43m
Genres
Romance, Drama, Music
Director
Shin Sang-ok

Casting

Interesting facts

Love, Love, My Love is a 1985 North Korean musical film in the genre of romantic melodrama. It was directed and produced by South Korea's Shin Sang-ok while he and his wife Choi Eun-hee were abductees in North Korea.

Production

Love, Love, My Love is a lighthearted musical in the genre of romantic melodrama. It is based on an ancient Korean folk tale, The Tale of Chunhyang. Shin Sang-ok had already filmed the story in 1961 in South Korea under the title Seong Chun-hyang. The story also had a previous North Korean film adaptation by Yu Won-jun and Yun Ryong-gyu called The Tale of Chunhyang (1980).

Love, Love, My Love, like many other films, was directed by Shin while he and his wife Choi Eun-hee were abducted in North Korea to make films for the regime. Shin started on the work after his previous North Korean film, An Emissary of No Return (1984). Love, Love, My Love was directed by Shin and produced by his North Korean company Shin Films. The script was written by Ri Hyong-su and Hang Tong-ho.

Shin used techniques of North Korean mass games to produce large song-and-dance numbers in Love, Love, My Love. Hundreds, or even thousands, of extras were needed. The song that plays with the ending credits became one of the most recognizable songs of the country. Love, Love, My Love was released 1985.

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