The Battle: Roar to Victory (Korean: 봉오동 전투; Hanja: 鳳梧洞戰鬪（凤梧洞战斗）)
The Battle: Roar to Victory
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| Directed by | Won Shin-yun |
| Produced by | Kim Tae-won |
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Running time | 134 minutes |
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| Box office | US$34.8 million[1] |
The Battle: Roar to Victory (Korean: 봉오동 전투; Hanja: 鳳梧洞戰鬪（凤梧洞战斗）) is a 2019 Korean-Japanese period action film, revolving around the Battle of Fengwudong between Korean independence militias and Japanese forces in 1920 during the Japanese occupation of Korea.
Plot[edit source]
In 1920, when Korea was under Japanese rule, the Korean independence forces’ sword-wielding Hwang Hae-cheol (Yoo Hae-jin) and his subordinates such as sniper Byeong-gu (Jo Woo-jin) carried out the operation to deliver funds to the Korean Provisional Government in Shanghai. During the operation Hwang Hae-chul is reunited with Jang-ha (Ryu Jun-yeol), a young squad commander, who has a suicide mission to bait the Japanese forces led by a general (Kazuki Kitamura) and first lieutenant (Hiroyuki Ikeuchi) into Bongo-dong.
Cast[edit source]
- Yoo Hae-jin as Hwang Hae-cheol
- Jo Woo-jin as Byeong-gu
- Ryu Jun-yeol as Yi Jang-ha
- Kazuki Kitamura as Japanese general Kusanagi
- Hiroyuki Ikeuchi as Japanese first lieutenant Yasukawa Jiro
- Daigo Kotarō as Yukio
- Go Min-si as Hwa-ja (Jang-ha's sister)
- Park Ji-Hwan as Japanese lieutenant Shigeru Arayoshi
- Sung Yu-bin as Gae Ddong-yi
- Park Hoon as a member of Jang Ha's unit
Reception[edit source]
The film had brought a cumulative total of more than 3 million viewers to Korean theaters according to the film's distributor Showbox.[2] It premiered in New York on 16 August 2019.[3]
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