Yobi, the Five Tailed Fox
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Yobi, the Five Tailed Fox is a 2007 animated Korean film
by Lee Seong-gang
, the director of My Beautiful Girl, Mari
. The film loosely draws upon the Korean folk tales of the kumiho
.
The runaway alien finds itself taken in by a class of students at the foot of the mountain. There, a teacher named Kang trains students who don't fit in at a regular school. To save the alien, the five tailed fox takes on the form of a human girl, and joins the school under the name of Yobi.
Staying at the school, Yobi becomes friends with one of the students, a boy named Geum-ie. She enjoys her time with the humans, until a fox hunter appears, as well as a shadow who gives Yobi a device which will allow her to become human by taking the soul from a human.
Yobi becomes exposed to the hunter, which makes her leave. Of course, the fox hunter tries to hunt her down. Geum-ie tries to save her, but goes down in a lake which makes Geum-ie's soul trapped in a cage as a bird. Yobi tries to save him, but the shadow takes everyone's souls. Yobi defeats the shadow and some ghosts tell Yobi that the number of souls in the lake is always the same and a soul can never go out unless a soul replaces it. Yobi replaces her soul with Geum-ie's.
Some years later, Yobi's soul is released. Yobi becomes human and Geum-ie is probably a grow-up already.
It is shown that Geum-ie's soul is blue, meaning that he loves Yobi, but Yobi is a fox and not a human, so she may not understand love and friendship.
Korean animation
The art of Korean animation, or Han-guk Manhwa Aenimeisyeon , has gone from hand-held flip books in early times to studios that produce most of the work for major American and Japanese animation companies...
by Lee Seong-gang
Lee Seong-kang
Lee Seong-kang is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. He achieved notoriety with his animated films-Filmography:* My Beautiful Girl, Mari...
, the director of My Beautiful Girl, Mari
My Beautiful Girl, Mari
My Beautiful Girl, Mari is a critically successful South Korean animated film. It follows the story of a young boy during summer vacation and ascends into flights of surrealistic fantasy, which may or may not be dream sequences.-Plot:Kim Nam-woo struggles through life as people around him...
. The film loosely draws upon the Korean folk tales of the kumiho
Kumiho
The gumiho is a creature that appears in the oral tales and legends of Korea,, and are akin to European fairies. According to those tales, a fox that lives a thousand years turns into a gumiho, like its Japanese and Chinese counterparts...
.
Plot
One hundred years ago, aliens landed on a mountain near where a small, white five tailed fox lived. After being stranded on Earth for one hundred years, they are ready for a test flight to see if they can return home. The test fails as one of the aliens makes a mistake, and the other aliens tell him to leave.The runaway alien finds itself taken in by a class of students at the foot of the mountain. There, a teacher named Kang trains students who don't fit in at a regular school. To save the alien, the five tailed fox takes on the form of a human girl, and joins the school under the name of Yobi.
Staying at the school, Yobi becomes friends with one of the students, a boy named Geum-ie. She enjoys her time with the humans, until a fox hunter appears, as well as a shadow who gives Yobi a device which will allow her to become human by taking the soul from a human.
Yobi becomes exposed to the hunter, which makes her leave. Of course, the fox hunter tries to hunt her down. Geum-ie tries to save her, but goes down in a lake which makes Geum-ie's soul trapped in a cage as a bird. Yobi tries to save him, but the shadow takes everyone's souls. Yobi defeats the shadow and some ghosts tell Yobi that the number of souls in the lake is always the same and a soul can never go out unless a soul replaces it. Yobi replaces her soul with Geum-ie's.
Some years later, Yobi's soul is released. Yobi becomes human and Geum-ie is probably a grow-up already.
It is shown that Geum-ie's soul is blue, meaning that he loves Yobi, but Yobi is a fox and not a human, so she may not understand love and friendship.
External links
- Official site
- Yobi, the Five Tailed Fox at HanCinema
- Yobi, the Five Tailed Fox at Mimanbu (Korean)