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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox film
|name = Madame Aema
|image = Madame Aema.jpg
|caption = Poster to 'Madame Aema' (1982)
| native_name =
|director = Jeong In-yeob
|producer = Choi Chun-ji
|writer = Lee Mun-woong
|starring = Ahn So-young
Lim Dong-jin
|music = Shin Pyong-ha
|cinematography = Lee Seok-gi
|editing = Kim Hui-su
|distributor = Yeonbang Movies
|released =
|runtime = 102 minutes
|country = South Korea
|language = Korean
|budget =
|gross =
}}
'Madame Aema' ( 'Aema buin'; also known as 'Mrs. Emma') is a 1982 South Korean film. A box-office hit, it was one of only two films to sell more than 100,000 tickets in Seoul 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: Madame Aema (Oh Su-bi)
* Lim Dong-jin: Aema's husband (Shin Hyun-wu)
* Hah Myung-joong
* Ha Jae-young
* Kim Jin-kyu
* 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 and the enactment of the so called "3S Act". 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 "" (lit. Horse-Loving Lady) to "" (lit. Hemp-Loving Lady). Both versions of the title are pronounced, "Aema Buin", a hint at the French film 'Emmanuelle' (1974), which had been popular in Korea. The most sexually explicit South Korean film made up to its time, 'Madame Aema's success ushered in an era of similar erotic films during the 1980s, such as director Lee Doo-yong's 'Mulberry' (1986). The film inspired at least 10 sequels, making it the longest-running series in the history of Korean cinema.
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