Yobi, the Five Tailed Fox

Yobi, the Five Tailed Fox
Theatrical poster
Hangul	천년여우 여우비
Hanja	千年여우 여우비
RR	Cheonnyeon-yeowoo Yeowoobi
MR	Ch‘ŏnnyŏnyŏu Yŏubi
Directed by	Lee Seong-gang
Produced by	Kang Han-young Oh Min-ho
Written by	Lee Chang-dong
Starring	Son Ye-jin Kong Hyeong-jin Ryu Deok-hwan
Distributed by	CJ Entertainment
Release date(s)	January 25, 2007 (2007-01-25)
Running time	85 minutes
Country	South Korea
Language	Korean
Admissions	471,364

Yobi, the Five Tailed Fox (Korean: 천년여우 여우비) 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.

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.

See also

• List of animated feature-length films

External links

• Official site (Korean)
• Yobi, the Five Tailed Fox at the Internet Movie Database
• Yobi, the Five Tailed Fox at HanCinema
• Yobi, the Five Tailed Fox at Mimanbu (Korean)