Kim Jong Il Dead: North Korean Leader Once Kidnapped Filmmaker and Actress to get results for Him

The dying of Kim Jong Il might have real-world implications far into 2012, but -- for the moment -- you are able to remember fondly the North Korean dictator's more ka-razy characteristics. Like how his ideas could control the sun and rain. Or that time Kim kidnapped a director and also the actress-wife, held them captive individually for five years, and finally hired those to make North Korean films which were not only "perfunctory." Dude will be a regular Robert Evans! Kim's obituary only makes passing reference to the the kidnapping of South Korean filmmaker Shin Sang-ok and also the Choi Eun-hee in 1978, but a 2003 Protector article round the bizarre incident goes far into what went down involving the dear leader and Shin inside the eight years just before the filmmaker steered obvious of North Korea permanently. After being kidnapped, Shin -- who had previously been known to as South Korea's reaction to Orson Welles because of his groundbreaking film working through the '60s and '70s -- tried to flee, which showed up him jail time No. 6, an area where he was handed grass, salt and grain for four years. Then, unexpectedly eventually in 1983, Shin was released and reunited along with his thought-to-be-dead wife inside a reception, where Kim presented the pair along with his vision money for hard times of North Korean filmmaking. "The North's filmmakers are merely doing perfunctory work. They don't have any new ideas," Kim apparently told the happy couple. "Their works have the identical expressions, redundancies, exactly the same type of plots. Our movies are filled with crying and sobbing. I didn't order those to portray that kind of factor." Kim, who written multiple books on film, considered themselves a film theorist. While he written in 'The Cinema and Directing': "The essential duty in the creative group is always to make revolutionary films of high ideological and artistic value, which can make a powerful contribution to arming people fully while using Party's monolithic ideology and which imbue the whole of society while using great Juche idea." That, plus less crying and sobbing. Following his "release," Shin made seven films with Kim Jong Il -- who socialized as executive producer -- including 'Pulgasari,' a North Korean undertake 'Godzilla' the Protector once known to love a "terrifically bad movie." After their escape for the American embassy in Vienna within a visit in 1986, Kim mentioned that Shin and Choi were kidnapped by Us citizens. Shin Sang-ok died in Seoul, Columbia in April of 2006 his wife remains alive to this day. Read a little more about Shin's amazing story in the Protector online. [via @thehighsign] [Photo: AFP PHOTO / KCNA VIA KNS] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook