Before he was the leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Il was something of a movie fanatic. He came to believe that cinema had great propaganda power, and decided to revolutionize the North Korean film industry to capitalize on that. Unfortunately, North Korea being the repressive place it was (and still is), there was really no one there who could be trusted to do the job, and so the future supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea hatched a plan to change that.
For some reason, however, simply hiring someone to do it didn't occur to Kim. Instead, he enacted an elaborate scheme to snare the leading film director of South Korea, Shin Sang Ok, by kidnapping his wife. The plan worked, and soon, Kim had his man — over the following years, he produced seven movies. The final, and crowning achievement, was none other than a remake of Godzilla, called Pulgasari. However, in this version, the monster isn't casually laying waste for the hell of it, but rather is the champion of the proletariat and helps overthrow a cruel dictator. Kim loved it, and so did the people apparently (probably because they would've been executed if they did.t). While it has achieved cult status in the West, it's mostly for MST3K-style mockery, not for any reason Kim Jong Il had hoped for.
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