![]() ![]() It's genuinely funny, witty, and thoughtful. The ambiguity of the time is one of the folkish elements of the story, since it's not really relevant to the plot. Not modern, certainly, and no later than the 18th century. Selling rice cakes in a remote mountain village, Byeon Gang Soe (Bong Tae Gyu) does his best to eke out a meager living. The setting and costuming suggests that the period is in the indeterminate late middle ages. ![]() It also may contain the most bizarre (yet appropriate) use of 'Pomp and Circumstance' I've ever seen in a comedy film. It swings back and forth between sex comedy and mythic narrative, quite successfully in most cases. There is an underlying plot involving a drought and the village's protective deity (a bear goddess). It is also like a folk tale in that there is a serious, even dramatic story hiding at the core that has unexpectedly poignant moments with genuine emotion. Its tone is closer to that of a folk tale, with the comedic sex elements, exaggeration, and pee jokes (in the same vein as Mel Brooks movies). Describing this film as a "raunchy comedy" is technically correct, but its approach to the theme is not what the summary or the cover art lead you to expect. I don't consider movies like A Tale of Legendary Libido to be in the same category. Byun Gang-Soe's life is about to change when a sympathetic old wise man informs him of a special old wine bottle buried in the forest and the special powers he can gain if he drinks it.I've never liked movies such as American Pie and When Harry Met Sally. It's so small that Byun Gang-Soe has become something of a punch line for the women in the village. A Tale of Legendary Libido was released in South Korea on 30 April 2008, 2 and was ranked sixth at the box office on its opening weekend with 89,997 admissions. He's saddled with an inferiority complex, due to the small size of his private part. The village wise man then decides to place the wooden nose in a old wine bottle and bury it for good in the forest.īyun Gang-Soe ( Bong Tae-Gyu) sells rice cakes in the village. The nose gets passed around the village, becoming an increasing nuisance to the villagers. When the elderly lady picks up the wooden nose, thunder suddenly erupts, smoke appears and a group of well endowed men appear ready to satisfy the elderly woman. She then tosses her shoe at a wooden statute and knocks off what it appears to be a wooden nose. ![]() ![]() An elderly granny ( Youn Yuh-Jung) drinks alcohol by herself and laments about the lack of men in the village. ![]()
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