A Well-Wrinkled Romance

Even by the racy standards of South Korea's red-hot movie industry, one of the many bedroom scenes in Too Young to Die was a tad risqu. A woman fondles a man and bends over him, initiating oral sex. After banning the movie, Korea's censors relented last month on the condition director Park Jin Pyo obscure the scene by digitally turning down the lights. It wasn't the act that scandalized Koreans, it was the actors. The stars of the movie are in their 70s, and in conservative Korea, nobody was ready to witness granny and grandpa having a romp. Koreans typically shunt...