Pulgasari

Blue K, Custodian of the Cinema

Supposedly Kim Il-song helped out with some of the choreography and cinematography of the folk dancing scenes.

Zachary George Najarian-Najafi

How ironic that this movie depicts the overthrow of an absolute monarchy/military dictatorship by freedom loving peoples. Totally what happened in North Korea, right? But, honestly, this is pretty boring and mind numbing, and only worth watching for the sake of seeing it. North Korea may be best Korea, but their cinema is not best cinema.

Frank

Surprised how much i like this film. Not in the same ballpark with regards to most Japanese monster flicks but it has one hell of a back story. highly recommend reading A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power by paul fischer. great book about the making of this.

ElTigreNegro

Uncle Kim's simplistic views of capitalism make loud echoes in this kaiju movie with a confusing agenda. The farmers are the people, and the king has them starving to them. Pulgasari is capitalism gone wild, eating all the metal he can find. So, maybe the real message from Uncle Kim was that the remedy to the nort korean commie hell would be even worse. The toho talent bring the best moments in the film.

Chuck Williamson

Best experienced as a series of animated .gifs.

OwainCai

An interesting yet insane back story to this piece of propaganda, it must have been horrific for Shin Sang-Ok and his wife.

Glim Ho

你走了之后，再没有人陪我看cult片