Forbidden Fairytale
New York Asian Film Festival 2025
July 11 - 24, 2025
Dan-bi is a censor by day who writes erotica to pay off a debt at night. This outrageous, sex-positive Korean comedy blends raunchy gags with sharp satire into a surprisingly sweet modern fairy tale.
When a Youth Protection Officer who dreams of writing children’s books crashes her bicycle into a gruff CEO’s vintage ride, she’s forced to pay him back by writing steamy adult web novels for his publishing empire. In Forbidden Fairytale, Park Ji-hyun (Reborn Rich, Hidden Face) plays Dan-bi, a pretty government prude whose literary ambitions take a wildly inappropriate detour. With no clue how to fake erotic expertise, she dives into “research”—watching porn at work, mining her friends’ TMI confessions, and discovering she’s dangerously good at being bad. As her X-rated tales set the internet on fire, the woman who spends her days slapping ‘inappropriate’ on smut becomes its hottest new author. With Choi Si-won (Work Later, Drink Now) as the colleague who becomes her first reader (and biggest fan), this sexy cult rom-com wonders out loud: what happens when censorship’s finest becomes fiction’s filthiest?
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