Word: chunhyang
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...government was verboten. So was anything racy: viewers didn't catch even the silhouette of a breast until 1985. "Everything was forbidden," recalls director Im Kwon Taek, who, with more than 100 movies under his belt, is considered the grand old man of Korean cinema. (His lush reworking of Chunhyang, Korea's most famous love story, recently won rave reviews in the U.S.) "You could only show kissing scenes from behind...
...challengers could be burlier. Among the films submitted by their home industries but not selected for the top five slots by the Academy screening committee were some highly esteemed works: Hong Kong's In the Mood for Love, Iran's A Time for Drunken Horses, South Korea's Chunhyang, Sweden's Songs from the Second Floor and Thailand's 6ixtynin9. In their place are the Czech Republic's Divided We Fall (a barren couple named Mary and Joseph take in a Jewish refugee during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia) and Mexico's Amores Parros/Life's a Bitch (a car crash...