Madame Aema
Madame Aema 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 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
Music
The theme song for the movie was "tragic love" composed by Shin Byungha and performed by Joo jeong Yi, who was one of the members of the south korean female duo Saniseul.Italian canzone singer Tony Dallara bought the sheet music for the theme song to use it on his album.
Reception and legacy
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 "愛馬夫人" to "愛麻夫人". Both versions of the title are pronounced, "Aema Buin", a hint at the French film Emmanuelle, which had been popular in Korea. The most sexually explicit South Korean film made up to its time, Madame Aema's success ushered in an era of similar erotic films during the 1980s, such as director Lee Doo-yong's Mulberry. The film inspired at least 10 sequels, making it the longest-running series in the history of Korean cinema.