Iodo is the name of a mythical matriarchal island endowed with mysterious powers. After a local journalist on a press junket cruise to promote a new hotel disappears, developer Woo-hyun travels to the island to investigate. This journey into Kim Ki-young's vision of Korea's traditional past is as dystopic as his nightmarish renderings of the modern middle classes elsewhere. Men are so rare on the island that a female shaman lures a floating male corpse to shore so that the island women may attempt to extract its precious semen in a notorious scene that borders on necrophilia. (Chris Berry) Iodo was significant in its daring look at religion, taboos, environmental destruction, and fatalism, considering the obstacles Korean cinema faced during the 1970s....Kim's views on man's instinctual nature and the unpredictability of fate are found in the human desire for biological procreation....The constant shift in narrative structure transforms the film into a modern myth. (Lee Yong-kwan, Pusan Film Festival)