The Tale of Shim Chong (film)

Shim Chong returns to the surface inside a giant orchid that fishermen take to the king of the land.

The king falls in love with her and helps her find her desperate father who has gone missing by organizing a feast for all the blind people in the kingdom.

Her father visits a temple one day and is told by a monk that his blindness could be cured in exchange for 300 sacks of rice.

Shim Chong agrees to be the sacrificial offering if the sailors provide the sacks of rice her father is missing and some money.

[2] Shim Chong leaves the world of the God of the Sea by floating to the surface inside a giant orchid.

[3] The king helps Shim Chong find her father by organizing a feast for all blind people in his kingdom.

[1] The Tale of Shim Chong was directed by Shin Sang-ok while he and his wife Choi Eun-hee were abducted to North Korea.

[3] The pair instead escaped from their abductors while in Vienna in 1985, the same year The Tale of Shim Chong and Shin's next film Salt were released.

Kim was the man whom, as Shin later discovered, had handed him over to North Korean agents in Hong Kong in 1978.

[7] Paul Fischer, the author of A Kim Jong-Il Production likens it with the work of Busby Berkeley, calling it "an extravagant musical ... with fantasy creatures, expensive costumes, and underwater scenes".