Movies / The Age of Shadows (2016)

7/10

Runtime: 140 min

Genres: Action Drama Thriller

Languages: English Japanese Korean Mandarin

Countries: South Korea


Lee Jung-chool (SONG Kang-ho), a Korean police captain in the Japanese police force, is given a special mission to infiltrate the armed resistance fighting for Korean independence. He approaches Kim Woo-jin (GONG Yoo), a leader of the resistance. These two men who stand on opposite sides of their historical era, each knowing the identity and intentions of the other, become close without revealing their inner thoughts. Meanwhile intel is being leaked on both sides, and no one knows who the informants are. Members of the resistance meet in Shanghai to obtain explosives that will be used to destroy facilities of the Japanese Headquarters in Seoul, while the Japanese police follow them and gather in Shanghai. The pursued and the pursuers, locked in an operation where each side uses the other and is thrown into a confusion of secret enmity and conciliation. Meanwhile, a train carrying explosives passes the border and heads towards Seoul....


Keywords (6)
korea 1920s spy train resistance
Directors (1) Credit
Ji-woon Kim ...
Writers (1) Credit
Ji-woon Kim ...
Composers (1) Credit
Mowg ...
Cinematographers (1) Credit
Ji-yong Kim ...
Actors (36) Credit
Byung-hun Lee Jung Chae-San
Chung-Kang Baek Male Bar Singer
Dong Young Kim Heo Chul-Joo
Do-Won Jung Woo Ma-E
Foster Burden Ludvik
Ha-dam Jeong Hanako
Ha-Nee Oh Hwang Seo-Im
Ha-Suk Jo Kang Jong-Ki, Shanghai source
Hee-soon Park Kim Sang Ho
Hiromitsu Takeda Takeda
Jae-Sang Yoo Inn errand boy
Ja-Hyoung Kwak Seo Jin-Dol
Ji-min Han Yun Gye-Soon
Joon Go Shim Sang-Do
Kang-ho Song Lee Jung-Chool
Mi-Nam Jung Loudspeaker police officer
Min-ho Kwak member 3 of exterminated Righteous Brotherhood
Moon-Chul Nam Kim Hwang-Sub
Sang-hee Lee Baby's mom
Sang Hoon Park Ha Il-Soo's subordinate
Sang-jae Yoo Hunter Park
Seo-Young ...
Shingo Tsurumi Higashi
Shin Sung-Rok Jo Hwe-Ryung
Sol-Gu Lee Oh Nam-Won
Soo-Hyun Kwon Sun-Gil
Soo-Kwang Lee Hideo
Soo Yeon Han Mae-Hyang
Suk-Tae Joo Prosecutor
Tae-goo Eom Hashimoto
Tae-joon Kim Train station employee
Yoo-An Jung Hwang Ui-Seo
Yoo Gong Kim Woo-Jin
Young-Gyu Jo Kim Hak-Jin
Young Ju Seo Joo Dong-Sung
Yu-hwa Choi Kim Sa-Hee