| Release Date: | Sep 2004 |
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| Genres: | Action / Drama / War |
| Awards: | 9 wins & 1 nomination |
| Runtime: | 140 min |
| Cast: | Dong-Kun Jang (Jin-tae Lee), Bin Won (Jin-seok Lee), Eun-ju Lee (Young-shin Kim) Hyeong-jin Kong (Yong-man) Yeong-ran Lee (Mother Lee) Kil-Kang Ahn (Sergeant Huh) Jin Jung (Sergeant Lim) Jae-hyeong Jeon (Yong-seok) Min-ho Jang (Old Jin-seok Lee) Yun-hie Jo (Jin-seok Lee's grandaughter) Min-sik Choi (North Korean Captain) Do-Hee Go (Young-Guk Kim) Taek-ha Hwang (Platoon Soldier #2) Dae-Hoon Jeong () Doo-hong Jung () Bo-kyeong Kim () Kyung-Hwan Kim (Young-Min Kim) Su-ro Kim (Anti-Communist Federation member) Ki-su Park (Esq. Yang) Sung-Mo Um (Seung-Chul) Cho Won-Hee () Joe Cappelletti (Additional Voices (voice: English...) D.C. Douglas (Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)) Adam Epstein (Additional Voices (uncredited)) |
In 1950, in South Korea, shoe-shiner Jin-tae Lee and his 18-year-old old student brother, Jin-seok Lee, form a poor but happy family with their mother, Jin-tae's fiancé Young-shin Kim, and her young sisters. Jin-tae and his mother are tough workers, who sacrifice themselves to send Jin-seok to the university. When North Korea invades the South, the family escapes to a relative's house in the country, but along their journey, Jin-seok is forced to join the army to fight in the front, and Jin-tae enlists too to protect his young brother. The commander promises Jin-tae that if he gets a medal he would release his brother, and Jin-tae becomes the braver soldier in the company. Along the bloody war between brothers, the relationship of Jin-seok with his older brother deteriorates leading to a dramatic and tragic end.
