cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/11500254

God, couldn't they have used a better poster cover for One Day One Night (2022) that doesn't spoil it a bit. So I used the Joseon Films logo in its stead

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The Wicker Man

Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in the Hebrides Island, in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. The investigation is further complicated as Howie’s religious views clash with those of the island’s residents.

Directed by Robin Hardy, his first directorial debut, we are also introduced to actor Edward Woodward, known for many roles in media, including appearing in Hot Fuzz (2007), and actor Christopher Lee, famous as Saruman of Lord of the Rings fame, and other roles.

One Day, One Night

In the 1950s a female war veteran and army nurse, Ra Myong Ju, uncovers the plot of the anti-party, counter-revolutionary factionalists, in the midst of their base of conspiracy. The film is based on a real story that happened to the real life late Ra Myong Hui in the 1950s, in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. May she rest well.

First DPRK horror, they say

Directed by Pak Kyong Jin with April 25 studio, which also seems to be his first directorial debut, he has also made a sequel, Day and Night of Confrontation (2025), which I am yet to have good English subtitles to, but that doesn’t really interest me. Also notable is that Ra’s actor, Kim Ryu Kyong, appeared in one particularly viral music video.

We’ll start at 4:30 PM EDT on Blorptube, right here: https://blorp.bot.nu/o/visual_cuisine

Be there, comrade, or shall I say, dongmu (friend) or dongji (elder comrade)!

That’s how DPRK addresses people, right?

Letterboxd:

https://letterboxd.com/film/the-wicker-man/

https://letterboxd.com/film/one-day-and-one-night/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

The Wicker Man: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/12301

CWs for the films (excluding spoilers?)

https://www.unconsentingmedia.org/

https://www.imdb.com/

The Wicker Man

Sex Et Nudity: Moderate

The Landlord's Daughter, sung by many of the islanders in the Green Man inn, is a bawdy song highly suggestive of Willow's sexual proclivity. Willow appears to accept this as a compliment and dances in a suggestive way with Oak.

A young man is "presented" to a woman in a window who is referred to as Aphrodite. Later in the scene they are heard having sex - no nudity is shown.

Several partially clad and naked couples are seen apparently copulating outside at night.

A naked woman with breasts in clear view is seen sat crying against a gravestone.

Director's Cut only: The song Gently Johnny describes a sexual encounter.

Pregnant women in partially see-through slips are seen picking blossom from trees.

Apparently naked young women (wearing body stockings so nothing seen) are seen dancing and jumping through a fire. Lord Summerisle refers to them as children.

Willow is seen singing and dancing naked. Her breasts are shown in medium closeup and there are full length views of her back (for which a body-double was used).

A woman is discovered naked in the bath. She exposes her breasts to Sergeant Howie.

Several island women play sexually suggestive games with the Hobbyhorse and Punch during the procession.

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Thankfully, no sexual assault, nor the r-word known as forced unconsenting sex

That being, being held in captivity is non-consensual.

Violence Et Gore: Moderate

Sergeant Howie punches an islander in the face.

Schoolgirls tie a live beetle to a bit of string on a rusty nail, the goal being to see how long it will keep trying to free itself before it rips its own leg off. Sergeant Howie finds this incredibly cruel.

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Profanity: Mild

A few uses of the word bloody, one use of the word god and jesus christ.

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Substance Abuse: Mild

Many of the islanders are seen drinking, smoking and cavorting in the Green Man inn.

Sergeant Howie drinks a pint of beer with his meal.

The gravedigger smokes a pipe.

Islanders are shown drinking and cavorting on the morning of May Day.

Sergeant Howie asks for a glass of whisky, which he downs in one

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Frightening Et Intense Scenes: Moderate

A severed hand is briefly shown on a candlestick, each finger lit separately as "candles".

In the undertaker's, Sergeant Howie removes the lid of a coffin to reveal an elderly woman's body with amputated hand and bloody stump.

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One Day, One Night

Sex Et Nudity: None

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That being, being held in captivity is non-consensual.

Violence Et Gore: Moderate

One wounded guy gets finished off with a light ax to the head

One guy is bonked on the head with a stick, gets his throat slit, and suffocates in alcohol

One guy is inexplicably killed by someone he should’ve overpowered

A couple of gunshots and stabbing

One guy falls to his death

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A rat is found dead, :cri-salute:

Profanity: Mild

Not huge a lot but profanity may include casually ableist insults like idiot

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Substance Abuse: Moderate

A bit of drunk behavior from one of the conspirators

Some smoking from others

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Frightening Et Intense Scenes: Moderate

Expect your Jumpscares by some ordinary-looking folks, up to now good, and some inexplicably-hidden elder of the family

Also, pretty sure unknowingly killing someone medically is a traumatic experience.

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Source

The Wicker Man; https://tankie.tube/w/72CkvqDsGEpaGPEgw95Yk6

One Day And One Night; https://tankie.tube/w/7MLmQcQmfhRKJbLYpLmrrh