Second battle of seoul
The idea for My Way was birthed from a World War II photo. It shows a small asian man clad in a German army uniform. It was reported that the man survived a 12, km journey across the battlefields before ending up in France. He was a Korean.
My Way, South Korea’s World War II movie revolves around frenemies Kim Jun-shik (Jang Dong-gun) and Hasegawa Tatsuo (Joe Odagiri).
As soldiers, the pair finds themselves donning many different military uniforms while fighting in the war.
FRENEMIES & A LADY: (l-r) Jang Dong-gun, Fan Bing Bing & Joe Odagiri
They went from fighting for Japan to the Soviet Union, Germany and eventually France.
Kim jun shik biography of william hill They consist of just one side or both sides charging towards the other, the two meeting, and then a massive scrum occurring in which soldiers of both sides are mixed indiscriminately and almost constantly within reach of an enemy. Koreans have been banned from taking part in sports events, and Tatsuo Joe Odagiri , now a fierce Japanese nationalist, has sworn that a Korean will never again win a race. Heroic Sacrifice : Tatsuo's grandfather throws himself onto a bomb to save Tatsuo and the other partygoers. Plot [ edit ].The film is said to be “loosely” based on a true story of a Korean man who survived a 12, km journey across the battlefields; ending in France.
In the movie’s production notes, it is reported that the film is inspired by a photograph of an East Asian man found among German prisoners after the Allied’s victory at Normandy.
We think it is the picture below.
Pic source: ?Asian-Wehrmacht-Nazi
The story behind the photograph moved and shocked My Way’s director Kang Je-kyu after it was highlighted in a TV documentary in South Korea.
During the Busan International Film Festival, Kang said: “I received the original scenario four years ago.
I then watched a three-episode SBS documentary on the same subject which made me unable to sleep. So, roughly two and a half years ago, I made the decision to direct the movie myself.”
EXPRESSIVE: Director Kang Je-kyu (left) and his My Way cast talk about the movie
The films budget is estimated at a whopping RMmil and it took Kang three years of writing and eight months of pre-production before shooting began in Oct
The cast is toplined by none other than Jang Dong-gun (Korea) and Joe Odagiri (Japan) with Fan Bing Bing (China) portraying a smaller role.
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Jang reunites with Kang after the pairs extremely successful run at the box office with Taegukgi: Brotherhood of War ().
Their orders are to dive under Soviet tanks and pull the pin. Go Ju Yeon. Never My Fault : Or more like "Never My Country's Fault," as while Tatsuo is nobly disgusted at getting a Disqualification-Induced Victory when the judges accused Jun-shik for cheating rather then beating Jun-shik fair and square, that does not stop him from mistreating him under his command in the Japanese Army, likely not just for his grudge against him for beating him, but for misblaming him for forcing the hands of judges who happens to be his own countrymen to stoop such lows in order to help him win. Jun-shik runs back to warn the Japanese forces, while Shirai sacrifices herself to shoot down an I Ishak , but Tatsuo refuses to order a retreat.The chance to work with Kang again sealed Jangs decision to film another war movie.
“After Taegukgi I thought I couldn’t do another war movie. What else could be said about war? said Jang. When I learned Kang Je-kyu would direct the movie then my decision came easily.
My Way challenged Jang to express himself in Japanese.
Joe Odagiri helped me a lot, said the year-old about scenes with the Japanese actor. Odagiri is an actor who thinks deeply and has firm thoughts as an actor… so we are on the same wavelength.
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Meanwhile, Odagiri also thinks highly of his South Korean co-star.
While acting together I could tell he was also considerate. I felt we understood each other well.
If I were a woman I would have a crush on him, said the 36 year old.
Opera star, Andrea Bocelli, lends his voice to the film’s soundtrack, To Find My Way.
Biography of william shakespeare A Father to His Men : Subverted, Colonel Takakura at the beginning of the film shows this, but is demoted and forced to commit suicide for "shamelessly retreating" from an overpowering Soviet armor attack. Jung Do An. Lee Dong Jin. The Soviets were certainly willing to put men in battle with an absolute minimum of training, and often Soviet soldiers were badly under-supplied compared to the Germans who also had tremendous logistics issues , but it was nowhere near the level seen in the movie.Composed by Lee Dong-jun, the song is played during the credit roll.
Read K-popped!s My Way review here. The film will be playing in Malaysian cinemas on April
MY WAY IN SOUTH KOREA: Actor Kim In-kwon (left), who portrays Lee Jong-dae, with the main cast of the movie.
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