Ask Yourself (North Korea)

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Korean title: 자신에게 물어보라 Subtitles: English (Improved by me) North Korean Drama from 1988 Director: Pak Jong Ju (Article below) A film about a woman called San Mae, she had volunteered to herd the cattles in the mountains as young. When she is asked by her sister to go back to the city to get married, Min Suk Jo, the team leader of the pasturing unit tries to convince her to stay, as she is much needed there. But trouble soon appears, when the team leader himself is asked if he himself really would be able to send one of his own daughters to the mountain side for pasturing, thus leaving their comfortable life in the city. Sorry for the low video quality. A better version with with subtitles can be purchased here: http://www.north-korea-books.com/servlet/the-573/ASK-YOURSELF--dsh--%EC%9E%90%EC%8B%A0%EC%97%90%EA%B2%8C/Detail Or watched with 360p quality but without subtitles here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygFfYpCuQTg Song of Genuine Human Life The song "They Will Remain in the Motherland" (어머니조국에 남아있으리) written by Ri Hyok Su and composed by People´s Artist So Jong Gon in Juche 77 or 1988 is the theme song of the Korean feature film "Ask Yourself", one of the Korean people´s favourite films. The film gives a deep explanation about where a man has to find his genuine ideal and happiness. The thematic and ideological content of the film gives a great impression, expressing itself through the emotional theme song. The song "They Will Remain in the Motherland" is loved and widely sung by the Korean people as it gave philosophical explanation about the human conscience devoted to the motherland and its value. (Voice of Korea 2015) The other song in the movie is called: Joyful Pasture Road or Pleasant Grazing Download: http://naenara.com.kp/media/mp3/FLM00314.mp3 Talent developed under the loving care (Voice of Korea 2015) Kim Il Sung Prize Winner, Labour Hero and People´s Artist Pak Jong Ju, Director of the Korean Film Studio, is widely known to the people. His creative talents are unthinkable apart from the multi-part feature film "The Nation and Destiny", a masterpiece of the era. He directed most of the long film with more than 60 parts. The great leader Kim Jong Il watched a serial of "The Nation and Destiny" and expressed great satisfaction, saying its directing methods and technique were new and Pak Jong Ju directed the film. His life shone under the loving care of the great Kim Jong Il. Pak Jong Ju was born in Kwangju City, South Jolla Province, south Korea. During the past Fatherland Liberation War he lost his father by the US imperialists and was led by his mother to the northern half of Korea. He studied at today´s Pyongyang University of Dramatic and Cinematic Arts as he hoped. In Juche 68 or 1979 Kim Jong Il enabled him, who had just graduated from the university, to study abroad so as to develop his talents. After returning from abroad, he produced the feature film "A Woman Teacher" well and gave a great pleasure to President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il. When he created the feature film "Ask Yourself", too, Kim Jong Il carefully watched every scene of the film and appreciated that the film was wonderful and a masterpiece and the direction was true and modern. Later, he kindly said to Pak Jong Ju that a director should add what was missed in a scenario, delve into what was skimmed and make the poor content rich and he should boldly break with the older experiences and methods and constantly pursue new words and ways of description to create a peculiar film description. His instructions served as a guideline for art creation, which lingered in the mind of Pak Jong Ju. True to his instructions, Pak made efforts to produce each film wonderfully. Especially, the unique creative methods he showed in the course of creating the multi-part feature film "The Nation and Destiny" displayed his ability as director. In December Juche 81 or 1992 Kim Jong Il met him and highly appreciated his talents. And he said our directors are praiseworthy and their mental world grew higher. Director Pak Jong Ju says: "In the days of creating films I met great Kim Jong Il many a time and received his instructions. Each time I felt that he is the genius of literature and arts, and teacher and father of all of us. Now people praise me for having produced more than 100 films. Frankly speaking, I could complete all the films as he developed my talents and led me step by step." Today respected Marshal Kim Jong Un is taking a warm care of him. In Juche 103 or 2014 he sent a birthday feast table to Pak Jong Ju on the occasion of his 70th birth anniversary. As the stars shine thanks to the sun, so the talents of the creators and artistes are shining like stars thanks to the boundlessly warm embrace of the peerlessly great men.