{"id":7853,"date":"2011-12-21T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T17:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/?p=7853"},"modified":"2011-12-21T09:52:21","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T16:52:21","slug":"team-america-pulgasari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/team-america-pulgasari\/","title":{"rendered":"Team America: Pulgasari"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This trailer is deservedly getting a lot more views in recent days – in case you don’t know the tale of Pulgasari it’s not only a mythical creature but was also a film<\/a> produced – yes, what I’m about to say is true – by the now-deceased North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il. A few years prior to the kidnapping of that film’s director, Jong-il penciled the treatise On the Art of Cinema<\/em> [link<\/a>] (fantastic cover by the way, pictured above) which led to the formation of the North Korean film industry aka Jongilwood (just made that up obviously). It’s a terrible movie but if you’re a fan of the monster genre, it’s sort of quintessential:<\/p>\n