Movie
1999
Shiri is a 1999 South Korean action spy film, written and directed by Kang Je-gyu. It was the first Hollywood-style big-budget blockbuster to be produced in the new Korean film industry. Created as a deliberate homage to the "high-octane" action film made popular by Hollywood through the 1980s, it also contained a story that draws on strong Korean national sentiment to fuel its drama. Much of the film's visual style…
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20th Century was extremely cruel to Korea. For most of its first part Koreans were under Japanese yoke only to liberation be marred by ideological divisions that would escalate into fratricidal and unimaginably destructive war. That conflict ended in the worst way possible – without clear victors and with country being permanently divided into two bitterly opposed states, with the southern part only at the latter de…More
