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AMP Cinema for Free: A Female Boss (1958) by Han Hyeong-mo

About This Film

By 1959, the influence of Hollywood in Korean cinema was in full bloom, and  is a testament to the fact, something that becomes obvious even from the music and the presentation of the titles in the very beginning of the movie. However, 's title is not exactly a textbook romantic comedy, since the concepts of toxic masculinity (in the way  presented it decades later), the role reversal and the eventual triumph of male domination make the film stand particularly out.

Synopsis

Yoanna is the editor of a magazine titled “The Modern Woman” and essentially, the archetype of the modern Western woman. She is rich and successful, lives in luxury that even allows her to feed her dog expensive cake, and is a hard-core feminist (a tablet above her office even states “Women are superior to men”) who has gone as far as to forbid any romantic notions in her female dominated workplace. Furthermore, and as she seems to have some issues with securing paper to print her magazine, she does nt shy away from teasing Mr. Oh, a rather rich but also funny middle-aged man who seems to be in love with her, in order to manipulate him to help her with her financial issues.

Her life, however, changes, when she stumbles upon Yong-ho while talking on a public phone, with the man establishing his dominance by kicking her dog and forcing her to put the phone down. An enraged Yoanna talks about the incident with her colleagues, but her chance for revenge eventually arrives, when Yong-ho appears in the office in order to apply for a job in the magazine. In distinct femme fatale fashion, Yoanna hires him in order to make his life miserable, but soon finds herself falling for the man's rough charm and intense masculinity.

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About the author

Panos Kotzathanasis

My name is Panos Kotzathanasis and I am Greek. Being a fan of Asian cinema and especially of Chinese kung fu and Japanese samurai movies since I was a little kid, I cultivated that love during my adolescence, to extend to the whole of SE Asia.

Starting from my own blog in Greek, I then moved on to write for some of the major publications in Greece, and in a number of websites dealing with (Asian) cinema, such as Taste of Cinema, Hancinema, EasternKicks, Chinese Policy Institute, and of course, Asian Movie Pulse. in which I still continue to contribute.

In the beginning of 2017, I launched my own website, Asian Film Vault, which I merged in 2018 with Asian Movie Pulse, creating the most complete website about the Asian movie industry, as it deals with almost every country from East and South Asia, and definitely all genres.

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