The result is an impressive, if too long, first feature that is likely to raise Japanese hackles and Korean spirits in roughly equal proportion.
2009: Lost Memories(2009 로스트메모리즈)
Korea · 2002
Rated R · 2h 16m
Director Lee Si-myung
Starring Jang Dong-gun, Toru Nakamura, Seo Jin-ho, Shin Goo
Genre Thriller, Action, Drama
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There are breakpoints in the history, the result of a single event may change the whole course. In 1909, an assassination attempt of a Japanese governor fails. Now, in 2009, Korea is just another state of Japan's Empire & Seoul has become a major city. A Korean resistance group fights for liberty, independence & the restoration of true history. Two cops, Japanese & Korean, investigate the group.
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More often a noirish action drama, a melancholy meditation on history and nationalism, than the high-tech thriller promised by its hype and artwork.
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TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
Though it ultimately devolves into megabudget Hollywood action-movie cliches by way of John Woo, Lee's handsome blockbuster is an entertaining variation on the American formulas that have colonized world cinema.
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