''Madame Aema'' (; also known as ''Mrs. Emma'') is a 1982 South Korean film, an adaptation of a novel by . A box-office hit, it was one of only two films to sell more than 100,000 tickets in

Seoul Seoul, officially Seoul Special Metropolitan City, is the capital city, capital and largest city of South Korea. The broader Seoul Metropolitan Area, encompassing Seoul, Gyeonggi Province and Incheon, emerged as the world's List of cities b ...

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) * Im 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 "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 '' Emmanuelle'' (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'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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* * * {{Madame Aema 1982 films 1980s erotic films 1980s Korean-language films Films based on South African novels South Korean erotic romance films South Korean erotic drama films South Korean romantic drama films