The Battle: Roar to Victory
Theatrical release poster
Hangul
봉오동 전투
Hanja
鳳梧洞戰鬪
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
Languages
  • Korean
  • Japanese
  • Chinese
Box officeUS$34.8 million[1]

The Battle: Roar to Victory (Korean: 봉오동 전투; Hanja: 鳳梧洞戰鬪) 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.

Plot

After the March 1st 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.[2]

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

Main

Supporting

Reception

The film had brought a cumulative total of more than 3 million viewers to Korean theaters according to the film's distributor Showbox.[3] It premiered in New York on 16 August 2019.[4]

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 [5]
Best Director in a Film Won Shin-yun Won
2020 56th Grand Bell Awards Best Cinematography Kim Young-ho Won [6]
Best Lighting Hwang Sun-ok Nominated [7]
Technical Award(Special Effects) Jung Do-ahn Nominated
2020 25th Chunsa Film Art Awards Best Director Won Shin-yun Won [8]
Technical Award Kim Young Ho Won

References

  1. ↑ "The Battle: Roar to Victory". KoBiz. Retrieved 11 November 2019.
  2. ↑ "봉오동 전투". serieson.naver.com (in Korean). Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  3. ↑ "'The Battle: Roar to Victory' passes 3 million admissions". The Korea Times. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
  4. ↑ "The Battle: Roar to Victory". AMCTheaters.com. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
  5. ↑ "배우 최윤슬, 대한민국문화연예대상 MC 우수상 수상". NBN News Agency (in Korean). 1 December 2019.
  6. ↑ [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.
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ "Winners Of The 25th Chunsa Film Art Awards". Soompi. 19 June 2020. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
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