Jopog Manura (2001, Korea)

The killer arrives Eun-Kyung Shin plays Cha Eun-jin, a female gangster chief. She is ruthless and violent, successfully disabling assailants despite her small frame. When she is finally reconciled with her long-lost daughter, now a young woman, the daughter has a special request: please get married.

Although there have been no overtones of Eun-jin's sexuality, it is suddenly obvious that she doesn't know much about wooing men, or about marriage. A beautician is called in, and amongst other things she points out the importance of wiggling your bosom to attract men; and she demonstrates. Eun-jin's useless henchmen are looking on and approve of the idea.

Some candidates have been lined up by Eun-jin's staff. The first one is so pathetic at a restaurant meal that Eun-jin has to go to the ladies' lavatory to compose herself. While she is there a man dressed as a woman comes in and tries to knife her. He is only seen indistinctly and briefly, in red in the picture.

The English title is My Wife is a Gangster.

HF October 2007



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