''Madame Aema'' ( 애마부인 – ''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

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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 ( ko, 안소영, Hanja: 安昭映) (born August 12, 1959) 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'' (Again Tomorrow ...

: Madame Aema (Oh Su-bi) * Lim Dong-jin: Aema's husband (Shin Hyun-wu) *

Hah Myung-joong Hah Myung-joong ( ko, 하명중, Hanja: 河明中) (born May 14, 1947) is a South Korean actor, film director, producer, planner, and screenwriter. Hah started his career as an actor, but expanded his career to film directing, and film producing. ...

* Ha Jae-young * Kim Jin-kyu *

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* 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 "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 ''

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'' (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 Lee Doo-yong (born December 24, 1942) is a South Korean film director. Since his debut in 1969 with the film ''The Lost Wedding Veil'' (1970), Lee has made more than 60 films in a wide array of genres. In the 1970s, he introduced Korean-style ac ...

's ''

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

References

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