A Note on Sources, Method, and Names ix
Cast xi
Introduction: August 1982 1
Reel 1 A Sense of Destiny
1. A Photograph on the Blue House Lawn 9
2. Director Shin and Madame Choi 14
3. Shrimp Among Whales 23
4. A Double Rainbow over Mount Paekdu 33
5. Kim Jong-H's First Loves 39
6. Fathers and Sons 54
7. Inside the Pyongyang Picture Show 59
8. A Three-Second Kiss 73
9. Repulse Bay 83
Reel 2 Guests of the Dear Leader
10. The Hermit Kingdom 91
11. Accused 104
12. Musicals, Movies, and Ideological Studies 109
13. Taken 120
14. The Others 130
15. Escape from the Chestnut Valley 146
16. Shin Sang-Ok Died Here 155
17. The Torture Position 167
18. Division 39 173
19. The Hunger Strike 184
20. Director Shin Is Coming 192
Intermission: The People's Actress woo in-nee
Real 3 Produced by Kim Jong-IL
21. Together 213
22. The Tape Recorder 217
23. Lights, Camera… 230
24. Out of the North 241
25. Like a European Movie 249
26. The Press Conference 255
27. Same Bed, Different Dreams 263
28. A Full Shooting Schedule 268
29. The Rubber Monster 282
30. Vienna 292
31. From Kim to Kim 302
32. The Stars and Stripes 312
Epilogue: 2013 322
Afterword 333
Acknowledgments 341
Selected Bibliography 345