Church of Film: Pulgasari
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Sunday, May 15, 2022, 8 pm
The Red Fox
Humboldt (Portland)
This is an in-person event
Free
North Korea makes monster movies, too. In this 1985 flick, a dying blacksmith forges a dreadful creature in iron. The Godzillaesque beast might just come in handy when a gaggle of oppressed villagers seeks to overturn their feudal overlord. Rumor suggests that director Shin Sang-ok was kidnapped and forced to make films such as this by fun-loving cinephile and future DPRK dictator Kim Jong-il.