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The Battleship Island is a 2017 South Korean period action drama film starring Hwang Jung-min, So Ji-sub, Song Joong-ki and Lee Jung-hyun. It is a Japanese occupation-era film about an attempted prison break from a forced labor camp on Hashima Island.
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For a long time, I’ve had this movie _The Battleship Island_—a Korea-Japan mixed war movie—on my list to watch, but I haven’t had the time to do so until yesterday. Mehn, this movie should be rated among the greatest movies in terms of its realistic nature. Hey, I don’t mean the storyline, because it got me a bit confused with the many unaligned attachments. However, it’s very understandable since it’s based on a tr…More
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One scene of The Battleship Island shows Kang-ok (Hwang Jung-min) and his daughter, So-hee (Kim Su-an) singing while dancing in the middle of the dark night, just illuminated by the streetlight. Space and time seemed to belong only to two, father and son sharing love. In a blockbuster outburst, such sensitivity indicates the sensitivity of the director playing a sense of existence increasingly rare. Ryoo Seung-wan (…More
No one will mistake The Battleship Island as a realistic war picture. This epic film about World War II is inspired from the true story of Korean slavery by Japanese soldiers on Hashima Island, but its often over-the-top cinematic style diminishes its credibility as a remake of historical events. But maybe that's not the purpose of the movie. The Battleship Island is a bombastic war spectacle . Tales of telling stor…More
My film tastes are difficult to pigeonhole. I enjoy big budget-blockbusters, documentaries, foreign films and just about every genre in between. If the story is compelling, film offers a format to express the story in many ways. I have reviewed a couple of big budget films here at Steemit. Now it is time for a foreign film. Today's movie adventure was a Korean film called Battleship Island . My only regret is that i…More