Madame Aema aka Mrs. Emma, is a 1982

1982 in film

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 South Korea

South Korea

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n film. A box-office hit, it was one of only two films to sell more than 100,000 tickets in Seoul

Seoul

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 during the year of 1982.

Synopsis

While her husband is in prison, Oh Su-bi engages in extramarital affairs. As she is preparing to leave for France with one of her lovers, her husband is released, and she returns to him.

Cast

• Ahn So-young
  Ahn So-young
  Ahn So-young is a South Korean actress. Ahn was born in Seoul in 1959 and graduated from Jeonghwa Girls' Commerce High School. Ahn debuted in 1979 with Naeil tto naeil directed by Im Kwon-taek and entered stardom with Madame Aema in 1982.-Filmography:*Note; the whole list is...
  
  : Madame Aema (Oh Su-bi)
• Lim Dong-jin: Aema's husband (Shin Hyun-wu)
• Hah Myung-joong
  Hah Myung-joong
  Hah Myung-joong is a South Korean actor, film director, producer, planner, and screen writer. Hah started his career as an actor, but expanded his career to film directing, and film producing. Hah graduated from Kyung Hee University with a major in English literature. His brother Ha Gil-jong was...
  
  
• Ha Jae-young
• Kim Jin-kyu
  Kim Jin-kyu
  Kim Jin-kyu was a South Korean actor, film director, and producer.- Filmography :-Director:Kim Jin-kyu was a South Korean actor, film director, and producer....
  
  
• Jeon Shook
• Kim Ae-kyung
• Kim Seon-hui
• Moon Tai-sun
• Kim Min-gyu

Background

Madame Aema was the first erotic film to be made after South Korea's government began relaxing its control of the film industry. The government's only interference was to change the Chinese characters used in the film's title. The government censors insisted that the characters in the title be changed from "愛馬婦人" (lit. Horse-Loving Lady) to "愛麻婦人" (lit. Hemp-Loving Lady). Both versions of the title are pronounced, "Aema Buin", a hint at the French film Emmanuelle

Emmanuelle (film)

Emmanuelle is a 1974 French softcore erotic film, directed by Just Jaeckin, and starring Sylvia Kristel. The screenplay was written by Jean-Louis Richard, based on the novel Emmanuelle: The Joys of a Woman by Emmanuelle Arsan. The music score is by Pierre Bachelet. The film was highly successful in...

 (1974), which had been popular in Korea. The most sexually explicit South Korean film made up to its time, Madame Aemas success ushered in an era of similar erotic films during the 1980s, such as director Lee Doo-yong's Mulberry

Mulberry (film)

Mulberry is an award-winning, popular South Korean film. Based on a classic story by Na Do-hyang, the film became known for its erotic subject matter, made possible by the government's gradual relaxation of censorship and control over the film industry during the 1980s...

 (1986

1986 in film

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). The film inspired at least 10 sequels, making it the longest-running series in the history of Korean cinema.