My Love, Yurie

A colourful and imaginative love story. Almost a fairy tale, but a little more strange and also a little more adult. The filling station attendant Donga (19) is so eager to see his lover Yurie, an 18-year-old prostitute who lives opposite the filling station, that he is willing to sell his soul to the devil for her. In exchange for his soul, he acquires Yurie's unconditional love, but only for a period of 10 years. When the 10 years have passed, the devil comes to claim Yurie again, and also his soul. Donga however doesn't want to lose his lover and decides to kill the devil or at least to follow Yurie into death. But death belongs to the gods and Donga has sold his soul to the devil; so even death is now out of his reach. Donga is doomed to roam forever as a ghost. Even 100 years later, he still roams unchanged around his lover's grave. He realises too late that nothing is eternal and unchanging, not even love. It's his doomed immutability that makes love impossible. Forever, yes. In this way this occasionally cheerful looking film gives the viewer a sober moral message.
The fantasy story has a very special design. It looks as if every trace of realism has been avoided through a colourful and very original decor. Occasionally it also looks like a loving film, but the undertone is one of eternal darkness. (GjZ)