South Korean director Kim Jee-woon has produced a trifecta of back-to-back successes with “A Bittersweet Life,” “The Good, The Bad, The Weird” and the deliciously dark “I Saw The Devil,” probably his finest accomplishment. Then something happened —he went Hollywood. The filmmaker tried to cross over with “The Last Stand” starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, which didn’t quite work out. In the interim, he’s made a couple of shorts, but now he’s back with his next feature, and hopefully it finds him back in top form.
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“The Age Of Shadows” stars Song Kang-ho and Gong Yoo in a period set tale about resistance fighters squaring off against Japanese police as they try to halt the independence movement. Here’s the synopsis:
Set in the late 1920s, The Age of Shadows follows the cat-and-mouse game that unfolds between a group of resistance fighters led by Gong’s character, trying to bring in explosives from Shanghai to destroy key Japanese facilities in Seoul, and Japanese agents trying to stop them. Song plays a talented Korean-born Japanese police officer who was previously in the independence movement himself and is thrown into a dilemma between the demands of his reality and the instinct to support a greater cause.
“The Age Of Shadows” opens in South Korea in September, and will hopefully at least land on the festival circuit stateside. There’s no U.S. distributor at the moment. [The Film Stage]
China and U.K. made Korea the dependency.
This is Seoul citizen in Chinese dependency era.
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This is Seoul City after Japan governed it.
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Korea Bank
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Korea were Chinese slave for a long time. All Koreans were poor, even upper classes were filthy dirty. Korea presented women to China from the Middle Ages. Korean father had sex with his daughter to check that she can get pregnant. When Korean woman gave birth, she must exposed her boobs. Japan stopped all disgusting Korean tradition.
Korea demanded merger to Japan. They threatened Japan even assassinating the Japanese PM Hirofumi Ito. Japan annexed Korea unwillingly to prevent invasion of Russia and China.
White people did not give education to the Asian people and enslaved them, except for some “elite”. Japan poured two-thirds of national assets and did Manchuria and Korean infrastructure maintenance. Meanwhile, Japanese citizen was forced to very frugal living. Only Japan gave education to all of them. There were Chinese and Korean teachers, government officers, army officers. Chinese and Korean woman did not have the name. Only Japan gave them the name.
White people had been ruling over Asia for a long time, but was indifferent to Asian human rights. Japan appealed for abolition of racism first on an international conference before WWII. Whites jeered and ignored Japan. Do you call this “occupy”?
After the end of the war, Korea betrayed Japan.
Koreans are pathological liar. Koreans love to attract whites’ attention. Koreans are terrible racists. They always attack Japanese people. This is foolish Korean propaganda. Kim is not a film maker. He is a typical Korean fascist and racist just like other Koreans.
You must remove brainwashing, and You should know how long whites infringed upon Asia before WWII. The Opium War, British Indian Ocean Territory, French Indochina, Dutch East Indies, Indias Orientales Españolas, Sino-German cooperation…..