Yobi, the Five Tailed Fox
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| Hanja | 여우 여우비 |
| Revised Romanization | Cheonnyeon-yeowoo Yeowoobi |
| McCune–Reischauer | Ch‘ŏnnyŏnyŏu Yŏubi |
| Directed by | Lee Sung-gang |
| Produced by | Kang Han-young Oh Min-ho |
| Written by | Lee Chang-dong |
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Son Ye-jin Gong Hyung-jin Ryu Deok-hwan |
| Music by | Yang Bang-ean |
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| Distributed by | CJ Entertainment |
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85 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean |
Yobi, the Five Tailed Fox (Korean: 천년여우 여우비) is a 2007 animated Korean film by Lee Sung-gang, the director of My Beautiful Girl, Mari. The film loosely draws upon the Korean folk tales of the kumiho.
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 do not fit in at a regular school. In order 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-ee. She grows more and more attached to humans and enjoys her time with them, 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. With the fox hunter set upon hunting her down, Geum-ee tries to save her, but falls down in a lake which makes Geum-ee's soul trapped in a cage as a bird. Yobi tries to save him, but the shadow takes Geum-ee's soul. He states that his soul was taken from him long ago and that he needs one to become solid. Yobi defeats the shadow, only to be told by the soul lake's gatekeepers that the number of souls in the lake must remain the same and a soul can never go out unless another soul replaces it. Yobi then allows for Geum-ee's departure back to the human world by placing her own soul in the bird cage. Once he comes back to consciousness, Geum-ee tries to call for Yobi, but to no avail. He is last seen leaving with the teacher and the other students.
Some time later, Yobi's soul is released. Yobi becomes human and is most likely reincarnated to become human not too long after her soul had been exchanged. It is not known if Yobi and Geum-ee see each other or not, though many fans have their hopes.
Yobi
Yobi's original form is a white fox with five tails and reddish pink eyes. She, however, has shape shifting abilities. She can transform into many animals, even humans, and understands animal speech. Yobi's human form is a skinny girl with dark brown hair tied into two tails resembling a fox's ears, she has big dark blue eyes and wears a loose red athletic shirt and blue shorts. She lives in the wood with her alien friends. Yobi is very naive and innocent. She lacks experience and knowledge about human behavior and their emotions, initially thinking them as silly creatures. As she spends time with them, Yobi starts to enjoy her experience as a human and secretly desires to become one. She forms a strong friendship with the boy Geum-ee. She gets angry at him when he brings people to her house even though he was forced to. Later when Geum-ee falls into the lake where souls in form of birds go, Yobi goes to great lengths to save him, even at the cost of her soul. Yobi's soul is blue, indicating that she loves Geum-ee.
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