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In the powerful tradition of Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers comes this box-office hit from Korea.From the director of Shiri comes the epic tale of two brothers. Jin-tae a shoemaker has worked tirelessly to provide money for the younger Jin-seok to go to college. But each of their hopes and dreams are shattered when both are forced to join the army against their will. Torn away from home and family Jin-tae vows to protect Jin-seok despite the dangers and the cost. In the searing crucible of battle fate intervenes forcing their bonds of faith love and trust to be tested time and again in this suspense-filled action-packe
In the powerful tradition of Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers comes this box-office hit from Korea.From the director of Shiri comes the epic tale of two brothers. Jin-tae a shoemaker has worked tirelessly to provide money for the younger Jin-seok to go to college. But each of their hopes and dreams are shattered when both are forced to join the army against their will. Torn away from home and family Jin-tae vows to protect Jin-seok despite the dangers and the cost. In the searing crucible of battle fate intervenes forcing their bonds of faith love and trust to be tested time and again in this suspense-filled action-packed war drama.System Requirements:Running Time: 140 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: FOREIGN/LATIN Rating: R UPC: 043396090064 Manufacturer No: 09006
A big, bruising epic of the Korean War, Tae Guk Gi smashed box-office records when it played in South Korea in 2004, almost as though the country needed to re-live the trauma at a 50-year distance. For the rest of the world, this movie looks like a ground-level reckoning in a melodramatic key, with an authentic feel for battle lines as well as home front. Tae Guk Gi follows two brothers--one uneducated and forceful, the other intellectual and reserved--as they are united and then divided by the conflict. The broadly emotional story has some of the power of tales of the American Civil War, when family members found themselves on opposite sides of a battle. Director Kang Je-gyu , who made the lively female-assassin hit Shiri, takes a blunt approach to the material (including a Saving Private Ryan-style framing device). And at 150 minutes, he has plenty of time for head-splitting, blood-spraying combat. This movie is meant as a punch in the stomach, and it connects. --Robert Horton
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Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Release date: 15 February 2005
Number of discs: 2
EAN: 9781404969414 UPC: 043396090064
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