{"product_id":"kim-jong-il-production-book-paul-fischer-9781250054265","title":"A Kim Jong-il Production","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn Amazon Best of The Year Nonfiction Selection\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLibrary Journal Top Ten Book of the Year  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Extraordinary True Story of Kim Jong-Il's kidnapping of the golden couple of South Korean Cinema, The Movies They Were Forced to Make, and Their Daring Escape. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBefore becoming the world's most notorious dictator, Kim Jong-Il ran North Korea's Ministry for Propaganda and all its film studios. Underwhelmed by the pool of talent available to him he took drastic steps, ordering the kidnap of Choi Eun-Hee (Madame Choi) - South Korea's most famous actress - and her ex-husband Shin Sang-Ok, the country's most famous filmmaker. But as Madame Choi and Shin Shang-Ok begin to make North Korea's greatest films, they hatch a plan of escape worthy of a blockbuster Hollywood ending. \u003ci\u003eA Kim Jong-Il Production\u003c\/i\u003e is that rarest of books: a wildly entertaining, cunningly told story that offers a rare glimpse into a nation still wrapped in mystery. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGripping. \u003ci\u003eA Kim Jong-Il Production\u003c\/i\u003e tells the absurd, harrowing, and true story of Choi and Shin's ordeal, which reveals the importance of film as propaganda to the North Korean regime. --\u003ci\u003eEsquire.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 1978 abductions of the South Korean actress Choi-Eun-He and her ex-husband, the director Shin Sang-Ok, in Hong Kong is the true crime at the center of Paul Fischer's gripping and surprisingly timely new book. --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn entertaining new book.details how  Shin and Choi] finally seized their chance to seek asylum.A stupefying, novelistic read. --\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Fischer's entertaining narrative paints an arresting portrait of a North Korean theater state, forced to enact the demented script of a sociopathic tyrant. --\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Paul Fischer's book A Kim Jong-Il Production is a highly illuminating deep dive on the middle Kim's cinematic obsessions and the film arms race between the two Koreas. --\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExhaustively researched, highly engrossing chronicle of the outrageous abduction of a pair of well-known South Korean filmmakers by the nefarious network of North Korea's Kim Jong-Il.--\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews (Starred Review) \u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49632822362385,"sku":"GOR007589895","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49765710659857,"sku":"CIN1250054265G","price":3.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50378102341905,"sku":"CIN1250054265A","price":3.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50414590558481,"sku":"CIN1250054265VG","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50751039176977,"sku":"GOR009528035","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51153761272081,"sku":"GOR014188495","price":10.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1250054265.jpg?v=1750953206","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/kim-jong-il-production-book-paul-fischer-9781250054265","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}