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During the Korean War, student volunteer Oh Jang-beom barely survives a brutal battle and is shaken by what he has seen. He is then put in charge of a newly formed unit of untrained student soldiers, joined by a defiant young criminal named Ku Kap-jo, and ordered to hold a key position.
In 1597, Joseon's navy has been cut down to about a dozen ships after a crushing defeat, and Admiral Yi Sun-sin is restored to command. As a huge Japanese fleet prepares to push toward the capital, he must face an overwhelming enemy at the Myeongnyang Strait.
In 1933, with Korea under Japanese rule, resistance captain Yem Sek-jin is tasked with recruiting three unruly independence fighters, Ahn Okyun, Big Gun and Duk-sam. Their mission is to sneak into Seoul and kill a Japanese general, Kawaguchi Mamoru, along with the pro-Japanese businessman Kang In-guk.
During the 1950 Hungnam evacuation of the Korean War, young Deok-soo is separated from his little sister, and his father stays behind to search for her. Before they part, his father makes Deok-soo promise to look after the family, and the boy flees to Busan with his mother and siblings to start over.
In 1953, ceasefire talks drag on while soldiers keep battling over hills along the 38th Parallel that change hands again and again. When a South Korean company commander at the Aerok Hills is found shot by a southern bullet, counterintelligence officer Kang Eun-pyo is sent to investigate and find a suspected mole.
As a boy, Nam-yi flees with his younger sister Ja-in when the king's guards hunt down their father, a skilled archer and officer. Thirteen years later, Nam-yi is a gifted archer and hunter, and when Manchu forces raid the village on Ja-in's wedding day and carry her off, he sets out to rescue her.
During Japan's occupation of Korea in World War II, more than 400 Koreans are forced into brutal labor on Hashima Island. Pushed to their limits by the harsh conditions, they gamble everything on a bold plan to break out.
In 1950, during the Korean War, an American pilot crash-lands near Dongmakgol, a remote mountain village whose residents know nothing about the fighting. Soon three North Korean soldiers and two South Korean deserters are also led there, and the enemies end up in a tense standoff while the puzzled villagers carry on with their daily lives.
In 1598, seven years into Japan's invasion of Joseon, Toyotomi Hideyoshi dies after ordering his troops home. Admiral Yi Sun-sin, fighting alongside allies from Ming China, has Konishi Yukinaga's army trapped at Suncheon, and the desperate Konishi tries to bribe a Ming admiral into letting his forces slip away by sea.
In 1950, with North Korean forces holding most of the South, General Douglas MacArthur plans a risky landing behind enemy lines at Incheon. To make it possible, Captain Jang Hak-soo and seven men of a South Korean intelligence unit called X-ray pose as a North Korean inspection team and slip into occupied Incheon to gather vital information.
In 1990, civil war tears through Somalia as rebels rise against the Barre government. The North and South Korean embassies are each courting Somali support in their bids to join the United Nations. While South Korean ambassador Han Sin-seong confronts his northern rival Rim Yong-su over a sabotaged meeting, rebel forces storm the capital. The film is based on real events.
In 1592, as Japanese forces push to conquer Joseon, commander Wakisaka Yasuharu takes charge of the Japanese fleet at Busan, determined to defeat Admiral Yi Sun-sin and his fearsome new turtle ship. Facing doubters among his own admirals, Yi must devise a bold new battle plan to stop the invasion at sea.
In January 1972, during the Vietnam War, a South Korean army base receives a radio message from a platoon that vanished at R-Point, an island near Saigon. Lieutenant Choi leads a small squad there with one week to bring the soldiers back, in exchange for an early discharge, but the place soon feels deeply wrong.
During the Korean War, a guerrilla battalion of young student volunteers led by army officers is sent to Jangsari Beach. Their job is to stage a decoy landing that fools North Korean forces and clears the way for the Incheon Landing. Meanwhile, an American war reporter covers the conflict and pleads with the world to send help.
Cheon Yeong is a slave with extraordinary fighting skill who longs to escape his unjust bondage, and Jong-ryeo is the master he once served. In a time of chaos under King Seonjo, the two meet again on opposite sides, one as the king's trusted military officer and the other as a volunteer soldier.
