Kim Jong Il Dead: North Korean Leader Once Kidnapped Filmmaker and Actress to dedicate yourself Him

The dying of Kim Jong Il may have real-world implications far into 2012, but -- for the time being -- you can can remember the North Korean dictator's more ka-razy character traits. Like how his ideas could control the elements. Or that point Kim kidnapped a director and the actress-wife, held them captive individually for 5 years, and lastly hired these to make North Korean films that were not just "perfunctory." Dude would be a regular Robert Evans! Kim's obituary only makes passing mention of the the kidnapping of South Korean filmmaker Shin Sang-ok and the Choi Eun-hee in 1978, but a 2003 Protector article around the bizarre incident goes far into what happened between your dear leader and Shin within the eight years prior to the filmmaker steered clear of North Korea permanently. After being kidnapped, Shin -- who was simply referred to as South Korea's response to Orson Welles due to his groundbreaking film working throughout the '60s and '70s -- attempted to flee, which arrived him imprisonment No. 6, a location where he was given grass, salt and grain for 4 years. Then, without warning eventually in 1983, Shin was launched and reunited together with his thought-to-be-dead wife in a reception, where Kim presented the happy couple together with his vision for future years of North Korean filmmaking. "The North's filmmakers are simply doing perfunctory work. They haven't any new ideas," Kim apparently told the pair. "Their works have a similar expressions, redundancies, the same kind of plots. All of our movies are full of crying and sobbing. I did not order these to portray that type of factor." Kim, who authored multiple books on film, considered themself a movie theorist. Because he authored in 'The Cinema and Directing': "The fundamental duty from the creative group would be to make revolutionary films of high ideological and artistic value, which will make a highly effective contribution to arming people fully using the Party's monolithic ideology and which imbue the entire of society using the great Juche idea." That, plus less crying and sobbing. Following his "release," Shin made seven films with Kim Jong Il -- who behaved as executive producer -- including 'Pulgasari,' a North Korean undertake 'Godzilla' the Protector once referred to like a "terrifically bad movie." After their escape towards the American embassy in Vienna throughout a visit in 1986, Kim stated that Shin and Choi were kidnapped by People in america. Shin Sang-ok died in Seoul, Columbia in April of 2006 his wife remains alive even today. Read much more about Shin's amazing story at The Protector online. [via @thehighsign] [Photo: AFP PHOTO / KCNA VIA KNS] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook