The Battle: Roar to Victory (Korean: 봉오동 전투) is a 2019 South Korean period war drama film, revolving around the Battle of Fengwudong between Korean independence militias and Japanese forces in 1920 during the Japanese occupation of Korea.
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Plot
After the March First Movement in 1919, the armed struggle of the independence forces became active in the Bongo-dong area. Armed with new weapons, Japan begins an operation to subdue the independence forces, and the independence forces decide to use the topography of Bongo-dong to overcome the unfavorable situation.
In 1920, when Korea was under Japanese rule, the Korean independence forces' sword-wielding Hwang Hae-cheol (Yoo Hae-jin) and his subordinates such as sniper Byeong-gu (Jo Woo-jin) carried out the operation to deliver funds to the Korean Provisional Government in Shanghai. During the operation Hwang Hae-chul is reunited with Jang-ha (Ryu Jun-yeol), a young squad commander, who has a suicide mission to bait the Japanese forces led by a general (Kazuki Kitamura) and first lieutenant (Hiroyuki Ikeuchi) into Bongo-dong.
Cast
Yoo Hae-jin as Hwang Hae-cheol (Korean: 황해철, Hwang Hae-cheol)
Ryu Jun-yeol as Yi Jang-ha (Korean: 이장하, I Jang-ha)
Jo Woo-jin as Byeong-gu (Korean: 병구, Byeong-gu)
Kazuki Kitamura as Japanese general Yasukawa Jiro (Japanese: 陸軍大将安川次郎, Rikugun-Taishō Yasukawa Jirō)
Hiroyuki Ikeuchi as Japanese first lieutenant Kusanagi (Japanese: 陸軍中尉草薙, Rikugun-Chūi Kusanagi)
Kotaro Daigo as Yukio
Go Min-si as Hwa-ja (Jang-ha's sister)
Park Ji-hwan as Japanese lieutenant Shigeru Arayoshi (Japanese: 陸軍中尉荒吉茂, Rikugun-Chūi Arayoshi Shigeru)
Shim So-young as Chinese Shaman
Sung Yu-bin as Gae Ddong-yi
Park Hoon as a member of Jang Ha's unit
Park Hee-soon as captured independence soldier (special appearance)
Reception
The film had brought a cumulative total of more than 3 million viewers to Korean theaters according to the film's distributor Showbox. It premiered in New York on 16 August 2019.