Lol, the story where a women and her ex-husband get kidnapped and forced to make movies in North Korea only to eventually escape to the US embassy in Vienna is a better story than the fiction they were forced to make.
@emsan3684
Жыл бұрын
I'll pay good money to see that movie 😂😂😂
@spencerdokes6056
Жыл бұрын
Lol? Ya their lives were ruined so lol
@tiobetio9501
Жыл бұрын
It's one of the plot lines of Tropic Thunder!
@faisaliqbal2436
Жыл бұрын
5c cþþt5😊❤and axbccwèr
@ivalicetifalucis
Жыл бұрын
There should be kdrama or movie for that
@GuyThePerson
6 ай бұрын
Kidnapping movie stars and directors for a guy to make his dream movie is such a generic villain role that it fits right in with the entire country.
@haven621
5 ай бұрын
would be fun if it was true
@macafromthewired
3 ай бұрын
@@haven621 it's not?
@mrSattori
2 ай бұрын
@@macafromthewired Of course it's true
@hi_lol1912
Ай бұрын
Eeeeeeeeeeeee
@x8makes.1teamx
Ай бұрын
Quite literally the part in Kingsman Golden Circle when Poppy's kidnapped Elton
@avirei98
Жыл бұрын
I'm sitting here trying to fathom dating in North Korea. Imagine disagreeing with the supreme leader, but being afraid that your partner would find out and wondering if they would turn you in if they knew.
@shaec3405
6 ай бұрын
And they would
@TheFakeyCakeMaker
5 ай бұрын
You're not allowed to date unless you get permission.
@unacuentadeyoutube13
Ай бұрын
@lume.music___I was just thinking the same. I think I saw somewhere that a lot of people didn't trust the government, but as it's ilegal to publicly talk about it, wether or not the other person is someone you can talk to remains always a mistery. Just what happens with Winston and O'Brien, or between any doubters of the party.
@hi_lol1912
Ай бұрын
Eeeeeeeeeeeee
@Yo_Chino
Ай бұрын
They have arranged marriages there, by class/caste
@TimeBucks
Жыл бұрын
Extremely interesting
@santoshdangi4935
Жыл бұрын
👍
@vanminhNguyen-eh8kn
Жыл бұрын
Good
@YourAverageMongus
Жыл бұрын
I agree
@kapypes
Жыл бұрын
Are u a bot? Did Johnny Haris bought a bot? How
@aseradam
Жыл бұрын
Good video
@4rk
Жыл бұрын
I think it's worth noting that the fact Mt Paektu features as important in plot points etc is not just because Kim Il Sung claimed to be born there. Rather, conversely, he claimed to be born there because it is considered important or sacred in its own right. By some accounts all Koreans may claim to descend from people of that mountain. IE Dagun descended from heaven onto that mountain specifically and then went on to become the first mythological king of the earliest Korean nation.
@pedrob3953
Жыл бұрын
Mount Paektu sits right in the middle of the Korean historical homeland. It's like Mount Ararat for Armenians. Koreans ended up migrating further south in the peninsula, but even today there's an important Korean minority in the Chinese side of Mt Paektu (Yanbian region).
@buzzy1010
Жыл бұрын
Yup, Mount. Paektu (or Baekdu?) is the iconic mountain in Korea, north or south. It's the second word in the south korean national anthem. I grew up thinking Mt. Baekdu as a national mountain somewhere in south korea until my early teens 😂
@ahn155
Жыл бұрын
Hating Japan is just one of the propaganda of South Korean communists, and highly educated, high-income South Koreans don't sympathize with hating Japan at all.
@4rk
3 ай бұрын
@J-ct2wh I'm not sure there's was any mystery. A mythological King of a mythological origin ruling a mythologized proto-nation eons prior to the modern concept of nationalism currently employed to even form the concept of either Korea, or "America." So if the closest transliteration as the "king" from/of "heaven" set up a mystery for you, just bear in mind that the context of the comment was about why a particular mountain keeps showing up in North Korean media (and again, it's not just in North Korean media, and it's not due, only, to Jim Il Sung).
@luciaedwardss
Ай бұрын
😊
@kristhebard
6 ай бұрын
This makes me want a video on ‘when politician hobbies turn into policy’
@Cultural_Encounters
Жыл бұрын
Hi Johnny, thanks for another fascinating video as always. What's shocking is how this wasn't an isolated incident. Hundreds of young Japanese people were kidnapped off of the coast of Japan and taken to North Korea in a similar fashion. The goal in this case was to train North Korean spies to speak Japanese. While this mostly included young couples, 13 year old Megumi Yokota was among the victims, and her family didn't learn about her whereabouts until 20 years later. A few of the abductees were returned to Japan in the early 2000s, but Megumi has yet to be allowed to return. Her father has passed away and her mother, now in her late 80s, continues to appeal for her return.
@DimaRakesah
Жыл бұрын
Not just Japanese, people from all over the world! They would kidnap people from various countries and force them to teach their language to North Korean spies and mafia members (Bureau 39) or kidnap someone with a skill they wanted and force them to teach it so they could use it in North Korea. Thousands of people have been kidnapped over the years. It's totally bonkers.
@henrietta5969
Жыл бұрын
Damn this is heartbreaking…
@taylorbug9
Жыл бұрын
Japan honestly should have forced them to give their people back. This makes them look incredibly weak.
@def3ndr887
Жыл бұрын
@@taylorbug9give them back or we colonize
@Mrwutevah
Жыл бұрын
@@taylorbug9What a... brilliant idea. Did you come up with it yourself?
@Zombie_Trooper
Жыл бұрын
I watched Pulgasari a few years back and discovered this story and was shocked at what this duo went through. It makes me think of the artists during WW2 who didn't make it out and all the talented people who have become puppets to their captors.
@mikhailshishin5701
Жыл бұрын
@Blown Gasket wdym
@RadzHexz
Жыл бұрын
@Blown Gasket alright but what about the artist censored for speaking out against the war? Or those paid by the government to spread propaganda? This is a two way street and you are choosing to blind yourself from the opposite side.
@avirei98
Жыл бұрын
@Blown Gasket 😐(🤡)
@someonee3186
Жыл бұрын
@Blown Gasket writing that one down
@ayowhat998
Жыл бұрын
@Blown Gasket istg every vid Somebody is like "yeah thats cool but did you know the us-" ok then go live in north korea or any middle eastern country embroiled in civil war and terrorism OR any single sub saharan african nation "Ruined by colonialism" and totally not nepotism, Corruption, Ethnic conflict, Tribal disputes, Warlords ETC. Cause honestly id rather live in a house with electricity and water and being able to be free and say what i want and not live in a dystopian reality where warlords and corrupt politicians thrive due to the environment created by their country's OWN citizens. So honestly stfu.
@GodlikeIridium
Жыл бұрын
North Korea seeing Hollywood movies: "That's way better socialist propaganda than ours! Quick, copy this like China copies electronics or Russia copies rockets and nukes!" 😅
@lightscorer1320
Ай бұрын
Are u implying Hollywood is socialist? Hollywood? The mega industrial, capitalist complex who does anything to squeze out more money?
@chrisdawson9312
Жыл бұрын
There is a great “autobiography” of Kim Jong Il written by Michael Malice called “Dear Reader,” he went to North Korea, grabbed all the North Korean books he could get his hands on of KJI and basically wrote a first person biography of him through the stories that are told of him in North Korea. Quite a fascinating book
@puttapakasaiprasad7005
Жыл бұрын
Thanks brother for mentioning the book ❤❤❤
@ahn155
Жыл бұрын
Hating Japan is just one of the propaganda of South Korean communists, and highly educated, high-income South Koreans don't sympathize with hating Japan at all.
@AnxWhisperer
Жыл бұрын
This episode was made so well. The editing was some of the best I’ve seen, and the best of all your episodes. Who helps you with this!? The topic was interesting, but the filmmaking was so good, I was emotionally compelled to watch this episode three times.
@andor4668
Жыл бұрын
28:50 credits
@ahn155
Жыл бұрын
Hating Japan is just one of the propaganda of South Korean communists, and highly educated, high-income South Koreans don't sympathize with hating Japan at all.
@generalcommentator-iu2wr
5 ай бұрын
Perhaps this comment reveals that it is the American's who are good at propaganda.
@megamcee
Жыл бұрын
I still have a fairly vivid memory of watching the second version of the movie with my grandma in a cinema. I never knew the history of that movie, but I'm so glad that it's so fascinating.
@Thaidory
Жыл бұрын
There was a western adaptation of this movie. The title name is Galgameth.
@megamcee
Жыл бұрын
@@Thaidory yep, that's the one I'm talking about.
@leahjackiepeah4130
Жыл бұрын
Dear christians if you took the covid 19 vaccine and didn't know it was the mark please go in closet close door and tell jesus christ the truth of not wanting the mark and to forgive you and never take it again. If a woman please put on a headcoverig when praying.
@harrykehoe5178
Жыл бұрын
@@megamcee short films like this remind us of how Europe could've been the greatest socialist society if not for the terrorist capitalists.
@storikobane
Жыл бұрын
@@harrykehoe5178 yeah cuz socialism works right?
@NEXUSNEST
Жыл бұрын
Is nobody gonna ask Johnny about where the hell did he find these North Korean movies from?!
@acetate909
Жыл бұрын
His intelligence handler.
@Mmadingo
Жыл бұрын
CIA
@OlTimeyChara
Жыл бұрын
Tor browser maybe, lol
@CodingExpress
Жыл бұрын
From the CIA archives
@andrewfranco8523
Жыл бұрын
He watched Atrocity guide's video and rehashed it for your simpleton viewing pleasure.
@SolracNexus
Жыл бұрын
"politics and film are now kind of the same thing" Modern hollywood: "wait, I thought it was always a thing"
@TheRealBarryChopsticks
Жыл бұрын
For a film released in 1997, the famer movie looks like a PSA from the 60s 😂
@lagcom
Жыл бұрын
Fun fact: the Bulgasari and Pulgasari movies have the same names in Korea, the apparent differences are from differences in romanization between NK and SK
@rachellee2680
Жыл бұрын
Was just about to comment this 👍
@weomxd
Жыл бұрын
Westerners will say its a completely different dialect 😂
@myspleenisbursting4825
Жыл бұрын
@@weomxdtbh north korean dialect is a bit different than the south korean one, they're completely different countries... Even if they were unified, the language will still be different, especially in pronunciation
@weomxd
Жыл бұрын
@@myspleenisbursting4825 yeah but they can understand each other perfectly fine. Its like accents in America or UK.
@myspleenisbursting4825
Жыл бұрын
@@weomxd yes, that's what makes it a dialect as opposed to a language... Mutual intelligibility
@DeadRyGuy
Жыл бұрын
I had no idea that North Korea kidnapped an actress and director; it's in that spot of recent enough it wasn't "history" as I was growing up, but also slightly before my time and awareness of world events. Great storytelling and production as usual! I really enjoy the longer pieces. Many of these topics deserve the time and discussion, not to mention this is probably the only thing I've ever seen on North Korean cinema. At least from this viewer's perspective, the longer vids are great!
@matthew_natividad
Жыл бұрын
Even crazier the movie pogasari is supposed to be a metaphor of how communism was supposed to help NK but didn’t really
@t00bgazer
Жыл бұрын
I dare you to search johnny harris debunked.
@DeadRyGuy
Жыл бұрын
@@t00bgazer Thank you, but I'm well aware of the controversy. Not everything or everyone is simply a binary of good or bad. No content creator is perfect and the best we can do is take the good while being aware of potential short comings. We're all free to form our own opinions. In my opinion, I don't think Johnny is a bad person or that he has bad intentions. Quite the contrary. Though I think you're trying to be helpful, try to embrace the nuance of life and people.
@deadheadwsp705
Жыл бұрын
You should also read into what happened with mao in China, Soviet Union and countless other totalitarian countries. Why we don’t learn more about these in school is beyond wild as these were some of the biggest travesties of the 20th century
@calibribody6776
Жыл бұрын
They unfortunately weren't the only the people North Korea kidnapped. I believe there was also a series of kidnappings in Japan.
@alexmarkevich1760
10 ай бұрын
North Korea never ceases to amaze me. It’s mind blowing what their leaders will go to in order to maintain their power. I would like to wish Johnny and his team patients and strength to continue their work . Guys, you are the best!
@PokhrajRoy.
Жыл бұрын
I remember being shocked when I first heard about this story and happy to see this being covered.
@dxnixble
Жыл бұрын
Jesus is coming back
@MrGolu1991
Жыл бұрын
Bong communist
@eaturcookiescookie7462
Жыл бұрын
@Don't Read My Profile Picture dont worry I won’t
@simulify8726
Жыл бұрын
@@dxnixble Source: Trust me bro
@Wesleyminaker
Жыл бұрын
@@simulify8726 facts. It’s called faith
@verecion
Жыл бұрын
"The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
@mr.benchwormer7723
Жыл бұрын
Wow perfectly described capitalism
@Chip_in
Жыл бұрын
"Only three ingredient in egg fry rice...egg...fry...and rice" - Nigel Ang ⛳
@tonipwneroni9846
Жыл бұрын
This is the amazing content I signed on for. Aside from the geopolitics, maps, and travel vlogs, this cultural stuff is gold. It's a great window into the cultural bubbles of places you don't normally get to hear much about. Great stuff, dude!
@sanjaymishra7892
Жыл бұрын
Nice
@ahn155
Жыл бұрын
Hating Japan is just one of the propaganda of South Korean communists, and highly educated, high-income South Koreans don't sympathize with hating Japan at all.
@TheFoxClaws
Жыл бұрын
If you want to learn more about the kidnapped filmmakers, Atrocity Guide has a great video on them. There’s even recorded audio of them casually talking with Kim Jong-Il
@WTFb0rn
Жыл бұрын
Strongly suspect that he leveraged her previous video (which is excellent and longer than this one) in creating this video. She really deserves more views, all of her videos are fantastic.
@Velumbra
Жыл бұрын
Hora.
@onehapaboy
Жыл бұрын
This American Life also did a great segment on this back in 2020, with interviews and recorded audio.
@kaylastarr7863
Жыл бұрын
So many details left out of this batshit story that she covers.
@miadel5846
8 ай бұрын
What's worse than getting kidnapped by N.Korea???? Getting kidnapped by N. Korea and having to deal your ex-husband 🤣🤣🤣
@schoolofA
Жыл бұрын
Don't the Top Gun fighter pilots risk their lives to destroy an underground uranium facility of a country not part of NATO? They're asked to sacrifice their lives and fly old-generation fighter jets against highly advanced ones. "It's not the plane, it's the pilot." Let's not forget that American cinema is very capable and does produce great propaganda.
@harrietjameson
Жыл бұрын
basically, everything is propaganda. Everyone wants you to believe a certain truth Especially since a lot of that "truth" just benefits a small group of people at the top
@montyollie
Жыл бұрын
You missed a golden opportunity to talk about J Dresnok, one of the most famous N Korean movie stars. He was an American defector to North Korea who got cast as the nasty American in all the propaganda movies. He lived out the rest of his life in the country, as a famous movie star.
@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
Жыл бұрын
I guess that's one way to achieve fame.
@Trancymind
Жыл бұрын
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 People love self loathing people because they are ultra rare but they do exist.
@brittanywinn3955
4 ай бұрын
It's way too comical to be real. Absolutely terrifying.
@ArchOfWinter
Жыл бұрын
The couple remarried, that's one heck of a way to reconcile their marriage. There has been a documentary made about the couple. Wouldn't mind watching a dramatic retelling of their stories.
@FacelessOnes
Жыл бұрын
As a Korean, thanks for showcasing this. The West usually doesn’t know the darkest side of our histories and of course, North Korean entertainment. Also, praying for unification of both Korea’s.
@b_em0
Жыл бұрын
❤❤❤❤❤
@SevenEllen
Жыл бұрын
Kim must be overthrown first. If North and South Korea were to unite, what horrors do you think Kim could unleash on the South? He'd try to brainwash the WHOLE country and fashion it to suit his self-obsessed ideals.
@RO0MBAA
Жыл бұрын
South Korea will never want to become a part of North Korea. The same goes for North Korea
@WarFoxThunder
Жыл бұрын
@DililahSitiwat--
@dhirendrakumar276
Жыл бұрын
I liked all the subtle production designs/choices (and editing choices too) in this video. Keeps your video style from being redundant Johnny. Quite liked it. Keep innovating in these terms too.
@gixmax
Жыл бұрын
So fucked up to think Romania had a North Korea phase in the 80's and all this movies feel really familiar and much too personal. We are still recovering from that. Can't really imagine how much it will take for those poor people...
@motro1301
Жыл бұрын
As a south korean myself, i can notice the video's korean is a bit too translated (like the korean dialogues in hollywood movies that are almost unintelligible)and mostly south korean.But that said, yeah i think it is still a decent cover of the famous north korean kaiju movie.Also it was interesting to see how you are reading kim jong il's book while you were in south korea, cause in south korea it is mostly in a very restricted section usually in a library with heavy heavy security so i wonder how you brought it to the south. Like i was very surprised when i was studyimg overseas that these bibliographies are just casualy in school libraries and can be bought so easily. Also johnny, yeah the translation for the art of the cinema might be a bit clunky because its more direct. It must be because your copy was translated by the north koreans themselves cause most of these books are translated by the foreign language house in pyongyang, possibly from those noeth korean translators passionately trying to learn english to a bbc textbook(yes they hate america but they are still ok with learning it from the british for some reason. Thae yong ho, the north korean diplomat who later defected, said he learned it from the bbc textbooks).
@kokopuffs8318
Жыл бұрын
At my university in Canada, we have an entire library full of North Korean books and propaganda materials. They are sort of just collectors items
@motro1301
Жыл бұрын
@@kokopuffs8318 I think it is also possible to be donations
@lillymurray8408
Жыл бұрын
I’m sorry but the DVD icon bopping around the screen is just so nostalgic.
@framesfc
Жыл бұрын
The visuals, the research, the structure. Mind Blowing Storytelling. I am amazed Mr. Jonny Harris And Team!
@yuckyyy
Жыл бұрын
and with a bunch of fake news and anti-communist propaganda, but hey, he's american, the land of the free
@joshuaaugustin5005
Жыл бұрын
You fool, he's nothing more than a mere puppet. Its the people behind the scenes who are pulling all the strings. Anyone could get up there and read a script. Not that hard at all. Things aren't always what they seem bro.
@TejasShastri-lh2mq
Жыл бұрын
I wonder sometimes if these comments are actually bots
@joshuaaugustin5005
Жыл бұрын
Homeless bums are recruited for five bucks and a pat on the back plus stock options to "do something really simple!" for mister harris and the shady mormon corporation he works for. Turns out these bums get human trafficked and forced to work on the set of the videos. They spend 15 hours a day doing hard labor at the "facility" as they call it. This is meant to break them down. Next the bums are sent off to school. They are forced to learn video editing software and stage production and everything that goes in to making and producing the videos. Failure is not an option. They are also involved in this huge ponzi scheme. But that's another rabbit hole I dont have time to get into
@artuniique2
Жыл бұрын
Same
@CinematicSeriesGaming
Жыл бұрын
Johny's videos make me feel like I'm the president getting a fancy briefing 🖤
@KDG702
Жыл бұрын
Extremely interesting, thanks Johnny. I’ve researched a lot about North Korea and their propaganda and the uniqueness of how they function, and videos like this are not only super cool but also super interesting because all of which you covered about has been sitting there for us to see this whole time. I’m glad I learned something new. Thanks for the video, I look forward to the next!
@TCGTales
Жыл бұрын
Hollywood is a U.S government propaganda tool as well.
@t00bgazer
Жыл бұрын
Search johnny harris debunked.
@abdo19code
Жыл бұрын
now do research from non-western sources and research the western propaganda about north korea and how they function. you might be surprised how much of what we're told is completely made up bullshit
@icecreambeats101
Жыл бұрын
You mentioned you were at the border of North Korea. I have a friend who’s black, born and raised in Cuba and he’s the only black person I met that’s been to North Korea. He speaks fluent Korean and he said the guards were amazed he spoke their language. But it’s a damn shame that North Koreans are easily manipulated by their leader. Just like when I deployed to Iraq, our translator Ali was telling us that Saddam told his people that our eye pro can see through the people’s clothes and the weakness of their body on how to kill them. I was shocked to hear that.
@steelerfaninperu
Жыл бұрын
There's a good work of fiction called The Orphan Master's Son, the story follows a person who abducts people for North Korea. And it used a lot of the details of the filmmakers' story to paint some really cool scenes of those abductions and what they were for.
@RakanAljuaid
5 ай бұрын
“These unwarranted music moments are everywhere in North Korean films” Umm have you ever watched a Disney movie? Lmao😂😂
@chadUCSD
2 күн бұрын
Or a Bollywood movie. Haha. They burst out into song and dance at any given moment. Lol. Its totally surreal at times. I find it quite funny myself. But hey, the hindis fuckin love it! Lol
@greyhoodie1012
Жыл бұрын
i hate it when he apologizes for the video being “long and in-depth” that’s what we want make em longer and more in-depth actually thank you -Us viewers
@madliliivakunstnik8929
4 ай бұрын
Now THAT was really well put together! Thank you so much!
@erikaacharya948
Жыл бұрын
Your videos are truly incredible. Your final product clarifies how much dedication, deep dive, and hard work has gone into it. I am really delighted to have a journalist like you in youtube
@xMasterAssassin93
2 ай бұрын
In a better reality than ours, where Korea was unified under a peaceful democracy similar to our own South Korea, Kim Jong Il was just a successful movie maker who directed or produced movies with the help and advice and employees from around the world in the industry. Sadly we live in a more depressing reality where a madman made mad movies in isolation.
@leeaf7
Жыл бұрын
Bulgasari and Pulgasari are same. They are spelled differently because North and South did not have a defined way to spell names using Roman characters. Another example is a city of Busan. It used to be spelled Pusan back in the day.
@slylover123
Жыл бұрын
The irony that the dictator was obsessed with movies yet executes any of his citizens that watch even 1 foreign film
@kavenseth
Жыл бұрын
Whenever he mentioned unwarranted songs and chorus I wonder what will Johnny do when he discovers Bollywood movies.
@violetviolet888
Жыл бұрын
*Johnny Harris:* I remember when you started this channel having been laid off by VOX. You've evolved exponentially and are now deep diving and exploring your curiosities on your own terms. GREAT JOB. Keep it up and never stop exploring with every map you can get you hands on.
@keerthichandra376
Жыл бұрын
I dont think got laid off. He left
@juliobrian4757
Жыл бұрын
"He rewrote his backstory again and again over the course of 20 years..." So...he was the Joker?
@CogitoErgoSumFortis
Жыл бұрын
I wonder how this mirrors into the whole Disney and local station news dialogues, where they repeat the same key phrases over and over, and where you can make those eerie videos of all the different newscasters saying the exact same phrases.
@mindbeast971
Жыл бұрын
Disney? I think you mean the Sinclair group
@jbird4478
Жыл бұрын
Well, you can't do that in North Korea because they only have a handful of newscasters. That said, the media in the US is indeed embarrassingly uniform and eerily centralized.
@CogitoErgoSumFortis
Жыл бұрын
@@mindbeast971 correct!
@CogitoErgoSumFortis
Жыл бұрын
@@jbird4478 it's an unfortunate illusion of a multilateral free market :( it used to be that, truly, but it has grown further from that in time
@cath1none
Жыл бұрын
"struggle is the only way to happiness" thats just the most northkorean thing ever haha
@Munkenba
Жыл бұрын
tbf it sounds like that's just what google translate would pump out if you fed it "the dignity of hard work", which is a common phrase employed in western political speech writing. Convincing the working classes that they're happiest when they're tied to the production line is politically universal.
@Araanor
Жыл бұрын
It's not that far from the truth. North Korea just takes it to the absurd.
@eriksatlher1
Жыл бұрын
sounds like american working culture for me. Work hard, break your back and its your problem to pay the medical bills
@LaGrandeRaceNoire
Жыл бұрын
Nicholas Howard🙂: We, kzitem.info/news/bejne/1puaqKJscn1_gIo the West and China, will not allow Africa to develop
@middleagebrotips3454
Жыл бұрын
@@Munkenba the American right says that a lot too
@thelanternexpress9371
Жыл бұрын
Americans: “look how NK brainwashes people with media!!” Also Americans: “ oh my god I love *any of the thousands of American made films portraying them as the heroes and good guys* I heard it’s based on a true story!
@GuyDandy
Жыл бұрын
Accented Cinema has an excellent video also covering Pulgasari that I highly recommend. He covers a number of things relating to eastern cinema and more.
@NightDocs
Жыл бұрын
Ha I’m so glad you’re covering this, this is one of the wildest North Korea stories in existence… right up there with the long held rumor that the founder Kim Il Sung wasn’t actually the real Kim
@historyandmoviemom
Жыл бұрын
As a film and history enthusiast, this video was so compelling. Well done! Bravo.
@mOOOp42
Жыл бұрын
Johnny, another amazing video as usual. One thing you didn't mention but I can't stop thinking about, is how are the citizens of North Korea supposed to consume these movies? I would assume with the older movies that government officials would get free movie tickets to take their families out to a theater but, how would this influence remote farmers or just the average working citizen? I highly doubt even during the VHS or DVD age that many citizens owned those machines, so distributions of physical format movies were probably few and far in between. Now in today's age, I would assume that there is a free government streaming platform that most citizens can access through their state computers but what do you think? I'm very curious about this.
@anonymously-mysterious3812
2 ай бұрын
Johnny using that song @ 10:07 is so random😂, especially that part of the song lol.
@smth.something
2 ай бұрын
what is the song name? 😅
@anonymously-mysterious3812
2 ай бұрын
@@smth.something “song of the sea” DPRK Military Choir. In the beginning, it has a woman singing
@electricblade5
Жыл бұрын
I'm home alone on Wednesday's and it can get pretty lonely, but for at least the length of your video I feel like I have a friend over. Thank you for uploading on Wednesday, Johnny. I am looking forward to the next one.
@robobrain10000
Жыл бұрын
Viewing the North Korean film industry in isolation probably doesn't mean much. This is probably beyond the scope of this video, but would have been nice to see what the Japanese or S. Korean films were doing around this same time and how the two films contrasted. Yes, these N Korean films are strange to us modern western audience, but they might not have been strange when compared to the contemporaries from the time.
@JamesonMusic808
7 ай бұрын
This has quickly become my favorite channel
@OdinBalor
Жыл бұрын
Imagine if he was born like in South Korea or the US, he would have been an amazing movie producer 😢
@origami83
Жыл бұрын
@Veikko Then he would fit right in with current disney marvel!
@internet_userr
Жыл бұрын
@Veikko imagine having more replies than op's comment
@LaGrandeRaceNoire
Жыл бұрын
Nicholas Howard🙂: We, kzitem.info/news/bejne/1puaqKJscn1_gIo the West and China, will not allow Africa to develop
@plainshades
Жыл бұрын
@@origami83Lol. You beat me to it. Was about to say the same thing. Movies are shit these days, especially there ones from Marvel.
@origami83
Жыл бұрын
@@plainshades yeah disney has the reversed midas touch going on. Everything they touch turns to shit.
@hprofile7089
Жыл бұрын
This is a appreciation comment for Johnny Harris and his team. Thank you for producing this amazing content.
@minilea25
Жыл бұрын
Hollywood and the Department of Defense do the same thing. The DOD is a financial backer or loans equipment to the movie studio. In return the American military is glorified and the govt. has final say over any scene and can make them literally change parts of the movie to better suit the American military's propaganda.
@PatrickTT
Жыл бұрын
@13:25 to 13:35 is just some awesome editing. The craft (sound!) meeting the story... BIG!
@youtube-army
Жыл бұрын
True.
@headwerkn
Жыл бұрын
Man, everything I watch or read with North Korean ends up with muttering ‘you can’t make up this sh*t’ 😂 Great work Johnny and Team.
@JimBob4233
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, you'd think, wouldn't you?
@TheClownfight
12 күн бұрын
You're a brave man! Not for taking on north Korea, which is nuts... But sitting through the hours of propaganda.
@Fabian-gw3cp
Жыл бұрын
small note to your animator: the second rainbow of a double rainbow has inverted colours, nothing important, just wanted to point that out
@PegasStar
11 ай бұрын
I can assure you, that movie production in the 50s and 70s in all soviet countries was exactly this 🙃 Very few movies that would be watchable in modern times. Also, communism was by no mean feministic but including women in the system was an absolute necessity for the society. Women absolutely had to work and do even occupations that they wouldn't be allowed to do in the west to cover all the industrial needs. Also, it was very much needed to keep women abord in the beginnings of communism. If you skip this part of a population you're risking your system will fail. There was no gender equality (women were still primary caretakers, cooking for husbands and all) but there was a huge stress on individual equality. People (common ones, not the government elites) must have felt equal to each other despite the conditions they lived in to be motivated to built the real communistic future society.
@benjammin1304
Жыл бұрын
This is a story that's always been fascinating to me. Like after WW2 China developed a pretty competent intelligence apparatus, but they just let their citizens get kidnapped like that? There's no way it's not on purpose.
@usernameis9157
Жыл бұрын
Hong Kong🇭🇰 gained independence in 1997 from Great Britain🇬🇧. So China had nothing to do with this
@jamie2118
Жыл бұрын
I learned about this kidnapping from my parents when I was young (I'm South Korean for context) and was furious about it. Interesting to know more details and the aftermath of the kidnapping, thanks Johnny
@sbh0892
21 күн бұрын
Indian here. These movies have an aesthetic similar to that of 1970s Bollywood, including rural themes, rich people being the antagonists, and a sense of sacrifice to uphold culture. However, Indian cinema didn't create cults of personality or glorify the government. In fact, the cops were often the corrupt baddies or simply inept. Also, our musical interludes focused a whole lot more on love and other such human emotions.😅
@sarakajira
Жыл бұрын
You know, hearing about the movie about the soccer player, and his "extreme struggle" for the country, I couldn't help be reminded of American films like the Rocky franchise, where Rocky Balboa trained "extra hard" so that he could defeat his Russian Soviet opponent. I mean it's basically the same concept.
@Speederzzz
Жыл бұрын
America has a special way of doing propaganda. Often, it's not even made by the government
@adam45z
Жыл бұрын
Hi Johnny I really want to thank you and your team for all the incredible videos on some fascinating, very interesting and very important topics. This is my favourite You Tube channel by far. I find everything you guys do so great to watch, whether it me historical, political or just interesting info. It's great that some talented and intellectual people are out there making content about things we all should be aware of, even if they are not what people want to hear always (in the case of the 'how the US stole' series for example) Thanks so much! ❤ You have many fans but I certainly am a massive one! Take care and keep up the incredible work 👍👌 And hi from Australia lol
@halflifeproductionz
Жыл бұрын
you guys dont break out for a song every 10 minutes?
@windell_king
Жыл бұрын
Johnny style of story telling is insanely good! The start of this video looks like an actual movie story, what a man! ❤
@bredsheeran2897
Жыл бұрын
*"Freedom has many difficulties & democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in"* - John F. Kennedy’s *Ich Bin Ein Berliner* speech about Capitalism vs. Communism
@aromaticsnail
Жыл бұрын
Hey Johnny, if a book inspired you and your team to make this video, have a look at The Red Atlas by John Davies and Alexander J Kent. It tells how the Soviets mapped the whole world in a pretty good quality. Even in the late 2000's these maps where being used in some African countries, due to their accuracy and the lack of better alternatives.
@thewalkingthinker6561
Жыл бұрын
Nice…this essay informs more about how cinema works in the USA…
@kisma03
Ай бұрын
West is so good at it that people think west doesnt use propaganda
@MrHaydnSir
Жыл бұрын
well, we’ve all been there 🤷🏻♂️
@MrSomebodyStrange
28 күн бұрын
Holy shitm the fact that "The Name Given by the Era" is so mindblowing to me. I mean, I come from the ex USSR and in the 2000s, during the period when TV stopped regularly signing off, some smaller channels will often fill the air in around 3 o'clock with some forgotten cultularly insignificant social realism films from 50s and 60s, mostly revolving around collective farm workers. This whole scenery filled with crop fields, tractor drivers in wifebeater tank tops and jackboots and all that talk about the motherland is associated in my head with that period, and not the time when I was still sour because I was disappointed in Fallout 3
@NhanNguyen-ru2ji
Жыл бұрын
Not just North Korean, but I think other communist countries have the similar genre, especially vietnam and china
@mochalily3735
5 ай бұрын
It’s also wild that the actress and filmmaker were forced to remarry because it was Kim didn’t like that they were divorced. Kinda sweet that they stayed together after.
@DozaMan-z8o
9 ай бұрын
When watching all American movies as savior while the mafia is a russian tells the same tricky😂
@PeytonBrown-i3i
4 ай бұрын
Or maybe they are just appealing to an audience of Americans who already don’t like Russia very much
@Sam-li4cr
Жыл бұрын
What a depressing way to live in, and the sad part is they don't even realize it, at least for the majority of them.
@JavierChaparroM
Жыл бұрын
I love your content and really appreciate the team for making it possible
@truthhouseproductions4968
7 ай бұрын
It was Kim Il sung who they said was born in the cabin on mount paektu. Kim jong il was born in North Korea and required no back story along with Kim Jong Un. Kim il sung was declared leader for eternity even after death.
@stepansmirnov7154
Жыл бұрын
As a Russian, raised on Soviet classic movies I can say that North Korean movies feel a little bit weird but the theme of authoritarianism is not the main topic in the films, in Soviet-era films there was all same stuff but they were actually well made and people later learned to ignore the propaganda in them and see the storyline. North Korean films are most likely inspired by the Russian movies but were poorly made.
@yinyinbun
Жыл бұрын
I've watched every single video on North Korea I could find just looking for any new scrap of info I could find. So glad I found this video! This was so incredibly interesting and I never knew any of this. Please don't apologize for how in depth this goes. It was all so fascinating
@srikrishnachaudhuri1259
Жыл бұрын
His passion for movies is something I can relate to 😂
@carlireland5049
Жыл бұрын
In another world where Korea was never partitioned during the Cold War, Kim Jong-il probably would have ended up being a pretty good filmmaker or film studio executive.
@vxvx2010
Жыл бұрын
I think somehow even the us used this kind of propaganda in movies , series,etc against communism and rival states
@mr.someone6128
Жыл бұрын
Communism sucks.
@00loudog
2 ай бұрын
They absolutely do
@alexanderboulton2123
Жыл бұрын
A lot of Protestant work ethic going on in this one.
@RazorbackPT
Жыл бұрын
Make a video about AI alignment.
@goblue4795
Ай бұрын
He just created a real life movie where two estranged lovers get kidnapped and ultimately escape and live happily ever after
@p.2104
Жыл бұрын
As someone who has lived in South Korea, been to North Korea, and known about this history for a long time.. Thank you! I wish more people knew about the shit show that is North Korean cinema!😂
@NEXUSNEST
Жыл бұрын
Imagine not having freedom and being bombarded with propaganda day in and out! I feel so sad for the people who live in North Korea! :(
@User-4517
Жыл бұрын
We living in the west are constantly exposed to the same thing, albeit a bit more subtle.
@NEXUSNEST
Жыл бұрын
@@User-4517 that’s true…
@johnhonda93
Жыл бұрын
Okay, now make a video on modern American propaganda!
@andyc4042
2 ай бұрын
I paid for youtube premium to not have product placement in my videos
@bilonic111
7 ай бұрын
Well I can add getting randomly kidnapped by North Korea to my list of fears.
@CodingExpress
Жыл бұрын
Thank you Johnny! Your contents always educate me.
@IntoTheStudio
Жыл бұрын
How you make such in-depth and well explained videos baffles me. I love your videos, and I love the shorts with what you’ve left out of the video.
@t00bgazer
Жыл бұрын
Lmfao when you search johnny harris debunked you will delete this comment.
@Homer-OJ-Simpson
Жыл бұрын
@@t00bgazer Beijing or Moscow. Time to guess where t00bgazer works.
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