Movies: Japanese occupation of korea

  • 1960
    Ah! Baekbeom Kim Ku

    Ah! Baekbeom Kim Ku (1960)

    Ah! Baekbeom Kim Ku

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    Kim Chang-su, who participated in the Donghak Movement, escapes to Manchuria after being chased by the Japanese army, finally making his way home. Angered by the assassination of Empress Myeong-seong, he murders a Japanese lieutenant and is sent to j...

    Ah! Baekbeom Kim Ku
  • 2005
    Annyeong, Sayonara

    Annyeong, Sayonara (2005)

    Annyeong, Sayonara

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    This joint Korean-Japanese production follows a Korean woman, Lee Ha-jong, as she searches for her father's remains. He - like tens of thousands of other Koreans - was forced into the Japanese military, and subsequently killed during WW2. She is join...

    Annyeong, Sayonara
  • 1991
    Your Ma's Name Was Chosun Whore

    Your Ma's Name Was Chosun Whore (1991)

    Your Ma's Name Was Chosun Whore

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    At the end of 1944, Japanese imperialists stuck to nothing to reverse the war situation as they were defeated in war. They recruited young people by force to use them as student soldiers and drafted workers while they took women to use as comfort wom...

    Your Ma's Name Was Chosun Whore
  • 2006
    Blue Sky

    Blue Sky (2006)

    Blue Sky

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    In 1920, a combat flight training school named "Willows" is founded in California. People who want to fight for Korea’s independence from Japan gather at the school. Their mission is to bomb the palace of the Japanese emperor. The pilots’ ardent desi...

    Blue Sky
  • 1973
    Five Hostesses for the Resistance

    Five Hostesses for the Resistance (1973)

    Five Hostesses for the Resistance

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    A patriot Park No-Hun is dispatched by Shanghai Provisional Government for Independence to assassinate members of the House of Council. In this situation Young-Kuk, brother of Hyeon-Ju who is a kisaeng of Myeong Wol Kwan, is jailed and Choi Chil-Yong...

    Five Hostesses for the Resistance
  • 2023
    Born in Gunsan and After Seven Years, I Was Repatriated to Japan...

    Born in Gunsan and After Seven Years, I Was Repatriated to Japan... (2023)

    Born in Gunsan and After Seven Years, I Was Repatriated to Japan...

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    A bamboo forest becomes a city with bustling streets that then smoothly transform into photographs: never really in focus, ever more fragmentary and blurred. Born in Gunsan and after seven years, I was repatriated to Japan… begins as a formidable exe...

    Born in Gunsan and After Seven Years, I Was Repatriated to Japan...
  • 1975
    Flame

    Flame (1975)

    Flame

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    A man wanders around the mountains with a bleeding leg, holding a rifle in his hand. Seemingly a fugitive, he runs from as-yet unknown pursuers, but he also seems to be following somebody who has already walked the same path. As he hides in a seclude...

    Flame
  • 2020
    East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front

    East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front (2020)

    East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front

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    East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front
  • 1958
    The Bell Tower

    The Bell Tower (1958)

    The Bell Tower

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    An elderly bell maker reminisces about his life filled with tragedy....

    The Bell Tower
  • 2024
    A Song of Korean Factory Girls

    A Song of Korean Factory Girls (2024)

    A Song of Korean Factory Girls

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    During the Japanese colonial period, 22 Korean female workers were forced to work in a spinning mill in Osaka across the sea to support their families. Despite facing discrimination and violence, their testimonies and life-affirming songs of victory ...

    A Song of Korean Factory Girls
  • 1965
    The Continent in Flames

    The Continent in Flames (1965)

    The Continent in Flames

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    The activities of a group of Korean independence fighters in Mongolia, who try to steal a valuable item from the Japanese Army....

    The Continent in Flames
  • 2019
    Things That Do Us Part

    Things That Do Us Part (2019)

    Things That Do Us Part

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    Things That Do Us Part is a documentary that reframes the stories of three women fighters who dove into a tragic war in modern Korean history, using witness statements and reenactments....

    Things That Do Us Part
  • 1967
    Traces

    Traces (1967)

    Traces

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    A Japanese fine art teacher helps a Korean independence fighter to escape from a threat of being arrested by the Japanese police. The Korean man introduces him a gisaeng (Koran geisha) who learned Korean traditional court dance and he falls in love w...

    Traces
  • 2013
    The Big Picture

    The Big Picture (2013)

    The Big Picture

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    The Big Picture
  • 1920
    There is No Poverty at the End of Labor

    There is No Poverty at the End of Labor (1920)

    There is No Poverty at the End of Labor

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    The oldest remaining film in Korea sets in the 1920s for enlightenment...

    There is No Poverty at the End of Labor
  • 2012
    Hundred Years' War in Korea

    Hundred Years' War in Korea (2012)

    Hundred Years' War in Korea

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    Hundred Years' War in Korea
  • 2020
    Land of My Father

    Land of My Father (2020)

    Land of My Father

    02020HD

    Byeong-man, a farmer whose father was enslaved during Japan's occupation of Korea, protests the Japanese government's claim over the disputed island territory of Dokdo. Kyeong Sook, a woman who lived on Dokdo with her father, struggles to keep his le...

    Land of My Father