Muoi: The Legend of a Portrait
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57% Rotten Tomatoes Genre Drama, History, Horror Cinematography Park Jae-Hong Language KoreanVietnamese | 6.1/10 IMDb Director Kim Tae-kyeong Music director Hyeong-wook Ryu Duration Country South KoreaVietnam | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Zizak, Tae-kyeong Kim Release date July 25, 2007 (2007-07-25) (South Korea)December 24, 2007 (2007-12-24) (Vietnam) Initial release July 26, 2007 (South Korea) Cast Similar movies Forrest Gump , The Interview , Skyfall , First Blood , Rambo: First Blood Part II , Mortdecai |
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Mười: The Legend of a Portrait is a 2007 horror film starring Jo An, Cha Ye-ryun and Anh Thu. It became the first horror film in Vietnam, after the Fall of Saigon and also, the first rated film in Vietnam.
Contents
- Muoi the legend of a portrait official trailer english subtitles
- Plot
- Vietnamese reaction
- Awards
- Cast
- References

Plot

Yun-hee, a South Korean writer, is under pressure by her editor to produce something of interest for her next book. She hasn’t had a book published in three years and is all too cognizant of this fact. Things look up when her old friend Seo-yeon calls from Vietnam. Seo-Yeon informs Yun-hee about a local Vietnamese folklore centered around a girl named “Mười” and her haunted portrait. It just so happens that in Yun-hee’s prior novel, she wrote a semi-autobiographical tale concerning her friends titled “Secrets & Lies”. In the book Seo-Yeon was portrayed in the most horrible manner, but Yun-hee is sure that Seo-Yeon hasn’t read the book as she has been living in Vietnam for years. Yun-hee eagerly flies to Vietnam to learn more about Muoi.
Vietnamese reaction

Muoi is considered the first horror film production to be made in Vietnam. Despite high public expectation, the picture also received bad reactions.

Upon examination, it received a disapproval from Vietnamese Bureau of Cinema for "unsuitable contents," which led to a delay in Vietnamese release. Because of this, it became the second horror film to be released in Vietnam, while another in the genre, Ngoi nha ma am/Suoi oan hon (Haunted House/Ghosted Stream), came out in August.

Finally, Muoi was released on December 24, 2007 with the first rating in Vietnamese film history: an under-16 ban for disturbing violence and horror image . Though stuck with this restriction, Muoi also had to suffer from scene cuts requested by the bureau. These include Muoi's right leg breakage, a monk's body falling, and So-hee's death.
Awards

At 2008's 7th Golden Kite Awards (the local equivalent of the Oscars), Phuoc Sang Films chose to send Muoi to the examining judge; afterwards, controversy arose because it was not considered a "real Vietnamese film" (most of the film was shot by Koreans). However, the film still received accolades for Best Cinematography and Best Sounds.
Cast

References
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