Pulgasari (1985)

The back story of how this movie came to be made is a lot more interesting then the movie itself. 'Pulgasari' is a kind of medieval variation on Godzilla made in North Korea in the 1980's by South Korean director Shin Sang-Ok, who North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il had kidnapped in the 1970's to make movies for him. There is a lot more to this story, I recently finished reading 'A King Jong-Il Production' by Paul Fischer which is defiantly worth a look if your interested. Perhaps the only North Korean film to get wide distribution outside of the communist block it's really pretty bad, but still kind of worth seeing. Quite the curio. *