Dramas of Resistance: The 80th Anniversary of Liberation
Hero
영웅
Thu 06 Nov, 6:15pm
Ciné Lumière
In 1909, revolutionary Ahn Jung-geun (Chung Sung-hwa) formed the ‘Danji Alliance’ with his comrades and headed for Harbin. One of their members, information broker Seol-hee (Kim Go-eun), infiltrates deep into the enemy camp and identifies the movements of Itō Hirobumi, Prime Minister of Japan and the mastermind behind Japanese annexation of Korea. Finally, gunshots ring at Harbin Station on 26 ...
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The Good, the Bad, the Weird
좋은 놈, 나쁜 놈, 이상한 놈
Fri 07 Nov, 8:45pm
ICA
The Manchurian fields of the 1930s. Bounty hunter Park Do-won (Jung Woo-sung), brutal villain Park Chang-yi (Lee Byung-hun), and quirky but persistent thief Yoon Tae-goo (Song Kang-ho) are in hot pursuit of an ancient treasure whose secrets lie in a hidden map. The finale is a huge shootout in the desert between the Japanese military, Manchurian bandits, and the three protagonists of the film, ...
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YMCA Baseball Team
YMCA 야구단
Fri 14 Nov, 8:45pm
ICA
Set in the final years of the Empire of Korea, Lee Ho-chang (Song Kang-ho), the son of a scholar, first picks up the modern game of ‘baseball’ on a YMCA field. He then goes on to form Joseon’s first-ever baseball team with the help of Western-educated female coach Min Jung-rim (Kim Hye-soo), Japanese Confucian scholar Oh Dae-hyun (Kim Joo-hyuk), and pro-Japanese bureaucrat’s son Ryu...
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Dongju: The Portrait of a Poet
동주
Sat 15 Nov, 11:45am
BFI Southbank
This understated black-and-white film uses creative cross-editing to contrast the youths of poet Yoon Dong-ju (Kang Ha-neul) and his cousin and comrade Song Mong-gyu (Park Jeong-min). The two young men, whose relationship crossed literature and belief, friendship and frustration, were arrested and imprisoned in a Fukuoka prison during the Japanese occupation. Yoon Dong-ju died on 16 February 19...
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