The Battle: Roar to Victory

The Battle: Roar to Victory (Korean: 봉오동 전투; Hanja: 鳳梧洞戰鬪（凤梧洞战斗）) is a 2019 Korean-Japanese period action film, revolving around the Battle of Fengwudong between Korean independence militias and Japanese forces in 1920 during the Japanese occupation of Korea.

The Battle: Roar to Victory
Theatrical release poster
Directed byWon Shin-yun
Produced byKim Tae-won
Starring
Production
companies
  • Showbox Corp
  • Big Stone Pictures
  • W-Pictures
Release date
  • August 7, 2019 (2019-08-07)
Running time
134 minutes
Country
  • South Korea
  • U.S.A.
Language
  • Korean
  • Japanese
  • Chinese
Box officeUS$34.8 million[1]

Plot

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

Reception

The film had brought a cumulative total of more than 3 million viewers to Korean theaters according to the film's distributor Showbox.[2] It premiered in New York on 16 August 2019.[3]

Awards and nominations
Year Award Category Recipient Result Ref.
2019 27th Korean Culture and Entertainment Awards Grand Prize in a Film The Battle: Roar to Victory Won [4]
Best Director in a Film Won Shin-yun Won
2020 56th Grand Bell Awards Best Cinematography Kim Young-ho Won [5]
Best Lighting Hwang Sun-ok Nominated [6]
Technical Award(Special Effects) Jung Do-ahn Nominated

References
  1. "The Battle: Roar to Victory". KoBiz. Retrieved 11 November 2019.
  2. "'The Battle: Roar to Victory' passes 3 million admissions". The Korea Times. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
  3. "The Battle: Roar to Victory". AMCTheaters.com. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
  4. "배우 최윤슬, 대한민국문화연예대상 MC 우수상 수상". NBN News Agency (in Korean). 1 December 2019.
  5. [제56회 대종상]'기생충' 작품상 포함 5관왕 달성…이병헌·정유미 주연상(종합) [[56th Daejong Award] Achievement of 5 crowns including'parasite' work award... Lee Byung-Hun and Yoo-Mi Jeong starring (General)]. Herald Corporation (in Korean). 3 June 2020. Retrieved 9 June 2020 – via Naver.
  6. Ha, Soo-jung (17 January 2020). 제56회 대종상 영화제 2월 25일 개최..'기생충' 11개 부문 최다 후보 [공식] [The 56th Daejongsang Film Festival was held on February 25th.. Most candidates in 11 categories of ‘Parasite’ [Official]]. News Chosun (in Korean). Retrieved 9 June 2020.
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