Fieldtrip - Yobi the Five Tailed Fox

23rd October 2007
-write 250-350 words analyzing a scene in your chosen movie
(use the specific terms the grammar of television and film)
-to be presented in class next week

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Tube: Waterloo (South Bank exit)
12:00 NFT1
BFI 51st London Film Festival

(Yobi official website)

Yobi, the Five Tailed Fox (천년여우 여우비) is a 2007 Korean animated film from Lee Seong-gang, the director of My Beautiful Girl- Mari. The film loosely draws upon the Korean folk tales of the kumiho.

Yobi is a shape-changing, magical creature. Being 100-years-old, Yobi is so young (for her species) that she has only grown five of her expected nine tails and when she takes human form looks like a young girl. A number of factors lead to Yobi spending time in a small boarding school where she finds being a human is rewarding and enjoyable.

With a fox hunter following her every move, Yobi must decide whether to follow a terrible ritual which involves stealing the soul of a loved one and will see her becoming completely human, or to leave the area altogether and return to her lonely life.

Reminiscent at times of the spirit and drive of Miyazaki, Yobi, the Five-Tailed Fox is fun, exciting and beautifully animated. It is a moving introduction to a place where cute aliens, multi-tailed vixens and people can live side by side. A world where the value systems within a relationship are understood and anyone or anything can make a difference.

The Trailer

one of the scene