Movies: Japanese occupation of korea

  • 2019
    Race to Freedom: Um Bok-dong

    Race to Freedom: Um Bok-dong (2019)

    Race to Freedom: Um Bok-dong

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    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
  • 1973
    When Taekwondo Strikes

    When Taekwondo Strikes (1973)

    When Taekwondo Strikes

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    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
  • 2007
    Epitaph

    Epitaph (2007)

    Epitaph

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    A traumatized girl sees visions of her dead mother in one of three tales set in a 1942 South Korean hospital....

    Epitaph
  • 2008
    Once Upon a Time

    Once Upon a Time (2008)

    Once Upon a Time

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    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
  • 2023
    Phantom

    Phantom (2023)

    Phantom

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    In 1933, when Korea was under Japanese occupation, five people in Gyeongseong are suspected to be "Phantom" spies of the anti-Japanese organization....

    Phantom
  • 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
  • 1990
    General's Son

    General's Son (1990)

    General's Son

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    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2015
    The Last Comfort Women

    The Last Comfort Women (2015)

    The Last Comfort Women

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    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
  • 2002
    YMCA Baseball Team

    YMCA Baseball Team (2002)

    YMCA Baseball Team

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    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
  • 2017
    The Silence

    The Silence (2017)

    The Silence

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    The Silence narrates the struggle of fifteen "comfort women"—former sex slaves by the Imperial Japanese Army during WWII—for recognition and reparation. The "comfort women" issue has previously been treated almost exclusively within the framework of ...

    The Silence
  • 2005
    Blue Swallow

    Blue Swallow (2005)

    Blue Swallow

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    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
    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
  • 1992
    General's Son 3

    General's Son 3 (1992)

    General's Son 3

    6.31992HD

    Following the final events of General's Son 2, Kim Du-han is forced to go on the lam but eventually returns to Jongro where he attempts to rebuild his gang with the brothers that are still alive and loyal and defeat Hayashi's Yakuzas once and for all...

    General's Son 3
  • 2018
    Herstory

    Herstory (2018)

    Herstory

    8.72018HD

    A true story of a six-year-long legal conflict of 10 comfort women and 13 attorneys against 200 Fukuoka supporters association....

    Herstory
  • 2019
    Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue

    Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue (2019)

    Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue

    7.42019HD

    A Japanese-American director digs deep into the controversial 'comfort women' issue to settle the debate on whether the women were paid prostitutes or sex slaves, and reveals the motivations and intentions of the main actors pushing to revise history...

    Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue
  • 2019
    My name is KIM Bok-dong

    My name is KIM Bok-dong (2019)

    My name is KIM Bok-dong

    8.82019HD

    In 1992, KIM Bok-dong, reported herself as a victim of the sexual slavery, "comfort women" during World War Ⅱ. She wanted to receive the proper apology from the Japan government but they denied its responsibility. In 2011, commemorating the 1000th We...

    My name is KIM Bok-dong
  • 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