Movies: Japanese occupation of korea

  • 2016
    Dongju: The Portrait of a Poet

    Dongju: The Portrait of a Poet (2016)

    Dongju: The Portrait of a Poet

    7.82016HD

    Based on a true story, renowned Korean poet, Yun Dong-ju, is detained and abused by the Japanese for participating in the Korean Independence Movement....

    Dongju: The Portrait of a Poet
  • 1973
    When Taekwondo Strikes

    When Taekwondo Strikes (1973)

    When Taekwondo Strikes

    7.21973HD

    The story is about the Japanese occupation of Korea during World War II. A Korean patriot played by Carter Wong gets into a fight with some Japanese people and is chased into a church. The priest there is captured and tortured. Trying to secure his r...

    When Taekwondo Strikes
  • 2022
    Hero

    Hero (2022)

    Hero

    6.62022HD

    An Jung-geun fights for Korea's independence from the Japanese Empire and sparks a movement. In 1909, he assassinates Itō Hirobumi, the first prime minister of Japan and resident-general of Korea....

    Hero
  • 2015
    Snowy Road

    Snowy Road (2015)

    Snowy Road

    6.92015HD

    Jong-bun, in her eighties, is one of the last surviving 'Comfort Women' victims forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese Army during World War II. Back in 1944, at the end of the Japanese occupation in Korea, Jong-bun was a poor but energetic girl ...

    Snowy Road
  • 2017
    Anarchist from Colony

    Anarchist from Colony (2017)

    Anarchist from Colony

    7.42017HD

    Based on the life of the Korean anarchist Park Yeol, the film shows his struggle to counter the massacre of Koreans by the government during the 1923 great Kanto earthquake, focusing on his activities as the leader of the anti-Japanese organization B...

    Anarchist from Colony
  • 2019
    Race to Freedom: Um Bok-dong

    Race to Freedom: Um Bok-dong (2019)

    Race to Freedom: Um Bok-dong

    6.72019HD

    During the Japanese colonial rule of Korea, while people are in despair, Jae-ho tries to raise morale by winning cycle championship. Bok-dong, who started cycling with Jae-ho just to make a forture, becomes a symbol of hope for Koreans by defeating J...

    Race to Freedom: Um Bok-dong
  • 2017
    Man of Will

    Man of Will (2017)

    Man of Will

    7.52017HD

    Young Kim Chang-soo is placed behind bars, charged with murdering a Japanese person who took part in Empress Myeongseong's assassination. In prison, Kim Chang-soo sees how Koreans are persecuted and grows into a fighter for Korean independence....

    Man of Will
  • 2008
    Dachimawa Lee

    Dachimawa Lee (2008)

    Dachimawa Lee

    5.72008HD

    Under Japanese imperialism, Korean national treasure Golden Buddha is stolen. More important to national security, the statue contains vital information concerning Korean freedom fighters and their whereabouts as well as their true identities. The in...

    Dachimawa Lee
  • 2002
    YMCA Baseball Team

    YMCA Baseball Team (2002)

    YMCA Baseball Team

    6.22002HD

    Hochang accidentally sees missionaries and Jeongrim play baseball at the YMCA hall. He falls in love with Jeongrim, and takes interest in baseball. As a result, he gathers people to form the first YMCA baseball team of Joseon....

    YMCA Baseball Team
  • 2019
    A Resistance

    A Resistance (2019)

    A Resistance

    82019HD

    17-year-old Yu Gwan-Sun participates in the Korean independence movement. The country is under the rule of Japan, which annexed the country in 1910....

    A Resistance
  • 2005
    Blue Swallow

    Blue Swallow (2005)

    Blue Swallow

    6.82005HD

    Park Kyung-won, who aspired to become a pilot since a young age, enrolls at an aviation academy in Japan. There she meets a charming exchange student from Korea who she is destined to be with....

    Blue Swallow
  • 2008
    Once Upon a Time

    Once Upon a Time (2008)

    Once Upon a Time

    62008HD

    The film is a heist comedy set in 1940s Korea, and stars Park Yong-woo and Lee Bo-young as a con artist and jazz singer who each plot to steal a valuable diamond from the Japanese authorities....

    Once Upon a Time
  • 2015
    The Last Comfort Women

    The Last Comfort Women (2015)

    The Last Comfort Women

    102015HD

    This film tells the story of three young women from South Korea, Japan, and China who were ravaged after becoming comfort women in the Japanese army....

    The Last Comfort Women
  • 1990
    General's Son

    General's Son (1990)

    General's Son

    5.91990HD

    In Japanese-occupied South Korea, a young man, newly-released from prison, is accepted into a gang for his fighting skills and quickly rises to the top. Based on the life of South Korean mobster and politician Kim Du-han....

    General's Son
  • 2008
    Modern Boy

    Modern Boy (2008)

    Modern Boy

    6.82008HD

    During the Japanese occupation, a Korean modern boy, who wants to fit in with the Japanese, falls in love with a Korean freedom fighter....

    Modern Boy
  • 1991
    General's Son 2

    General's Son 2 (1991)

    General's Son 2

    5.41991HD

    Upon being released from prison, Kim Du-han begins rebuilding his street gang in the face of Hayashi's Yakuzas and increasing Japanese influence....

    General's Son 2
  • 2000
    The Anarchists

    The Anarchists (2000)

    The Anarchists

    4.62000HD

    Set in 1920s Shanghai, the film recounts the activities of a group of young Koreans trying to destabilize Japanese control of their penninsula. Through an anti-occupation terrorist campaign, the five men hope to inspire a resurrection throughout thei...

    The Anarchists
  • 2014
    Tuning Fork

    Tuning Fork (2014)

    Tuning Fork

    02014HD

    From the Japanese Occupation a 'comfort woman' returns from China an old woman. At the end of the war she can't return home and spends the next 65 years living as an alien in a foreign country. Even to her own granddaughter she seems to be losing her...

    Tuning Fork
  • 2008
    Radio Dayz

    Radio Dayz (2008)

    Radio Dayz

    6.42008HD

    In April 1933, Korea’s Japanese occupiers launched the country’s first radio station, JODK. It broadcasts propaganda so as to better brainwash the Korean people into becoming loyal Japanese citizens. In need of a Korean producer for a radio drama abo...

    Radio Dayz
  • 1974
    Manchurian Tiger

    Manchurian Tiger (1974)

    Manchurian Tiger

    51974HD

    In Manchuria during the 1940's, a karate master named Sazaki and hapkido champion Wang make plans to rob the Korean Independence Army of its funds. However, unknown to them, the money is guarded by one Mr Lee--a grand master of taekwondo....

    Manchurian Tiger