Mountain Strawberries

Mountain Strawberries (Korean: 산딸기) also known as Wild Strawberry is a 1982 South Korean film directed by Kim Su-hyeong. It was the first entry in the Mountain Strawberries series, inspiring five sequels, the last appearing in 1994.

Mountain Strawberries
Theatrical poster for Mountain Strawberries (1982)
Hangul	산딸기
Hanja	山딸기
Revised Romanization	Santtalgi
McCune–Reischauer	Santtalgi
Directed by	Kim Su-hyeong[1]
Written by	Yoo Ji-hoeng
Produced by	Seo Byeong-jik
Starring	Ahn So-young
Cinematography	Chun Jo-myoung
Edited by	Ree Kyoung-ja
Music by	Jeong Min-seob
Distributed by	Nam A Enterprises Co., Ltd.
Release date	September 4, 1982 (1982-09-04)
Running time	97 minutes
Country	South Korea
Language	Korean

Background

Madame Aema, the first "ero" or erotic film to be made after South Korea's government began relaxing its control of the film industry,^[2] was released in February 1982. Mountain Strawberries, starring Aema's Ahn So-young, debuted in September of that year. "Folk erotic" became one of the popular genres of the erotic film in Korea,^[3] and Mountain Strawberries was one of the earliest films in that style. Like many of the South Korean erotic films of this era, Mountain Strawberries incorporated melodrama into its softcore pornographic storyline.^[4]

Synopsis

Bun-nyeo, a girl in a mountain village loses her virginity to Myong-jun, the village vagabond. After both of her suitors die before they can wed Bun-nyeo, she moves to the city to work in a factory. Myong-jun persuades her to return to the village, but he is arrested for murder. As the film ends, Bun-nyeo is waiting for Myong-jun's release.^[5]

Cast

• Ahn So-young^[5]
• Namkoong Won
• Jo Dong-jin
• Kim In-moon
• Jin Yoo-young
• Yang Hyoung-ho
• Kim Min
• Kim Ae-kyung
• Moon Mi-bong
• Jo Jeong-su

Bibliography

English

• "Mountain Strawberries (Santtalgi)(1982)". Korean Movie Database (KMDb). Retrieved 2009-06-27.

Korean

• 산딸기 (in Korean). www.cine21.com. Retrieved 2009-06-27.
• 산딸기 (1982) (in Korean). Korean Movie Database (KMDb). Retrieved 2009-06-27.

Notes

1. Infobox data from "Mountain Strawberries (Santtalgi)(1982)". Korean Movie Database (KMDb). Retrieved 2009-06-27.
2. Lankov, Andrei (2007-12-13). "(481) Dictating Sex". The Korea Times. Archived from the original on 2007-12-26. Retrieved 2007-12-19.
3. "Discovery of Hometown Films". www.koreafilm.org. Korean Film Archive. Retrieved 2007-10-25.
4. Min, Eung-jun; Joo Jin-sook; Kwak Han-ju (2003). "Korean National Cinema in the 1980s". Korean Film; History, Resistance, and Democratic Imagination. Westport, Connecticut and London: Praeger Publishers. p. 64. ISBN 0-275-95811-6.
5. "Mountain Strawberries (Santtalgi)(1982)". Korean Movie Database (KMDb). Retrieved 2009-06-27.