Action, Drama
An account of karate competitor Choi Yeung-Eui who went to Japan after World War II to become a fighter pilot but found a very different path instead. He changed his name to Masutatsu Oyama and went across the country, defeating martial artists one after another. This film concentrates on the period when he is still young, and developing his famous karate style, Kyokushin.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Genealogy
Your Ma's Name Was Chosun Whore
General's Son
Deliver Us from Evil
Road to Boston
The Continent in Flames
Pacchigi! Love & Peace
Manchurian Tiger
General's Son 2
General's Son 3
Yu Gwan-Sun
Once Upon a Time
Harbin
When Acacias Bloom
Anarchist from Colony
Snowy Road
GO
The True Story of Kim Du-han
Remember
Hero
SIMILAR MOVIES
Genealogy
IMDB 5.7 | Sep , 1979
During the Japanese occupation of South Korea, a Japanese bureaucrat is ordered to persuade an influential Korean patriarch into obeying the law of changing his Korean surname to a Japanese one.Your Ma's Name Was Chosun Whore
IMDB 0 | Oct , 1991
At the end of 1944, Japanese imperialists stuck to nothing to reverse the war situation as they were defeated in war. They recruited young people by force to use them as student soldiers and drafted workers while they took women to use as comfort women by force. The girl who has lived in a town on the border between Jeon Ra Do and Kyeong Sang Do was kidnapped by armed Japanese army. She was dispatched to a front of the Philippines where she went through miserable pains that weren't understandable not only for as human being but also as women. Her dream was to marry Young-Su of the next door school and to be a good mother who has a son and two daughters.General's Son
IMDB 5.9 | Jun , 1990
In Japanese-occupied South Korea, a young man, newly-released from prison, is accepted into a gang for his fighting skills and quickly rises to the top. Based on the life of South Korean mobster and politician Kim Du-han.Deliver Us from Evil
IMDB 6.9 | Aug , 2020
A retired contract killer goes on a bloody rampage when a young girl finds herself at the mercy of gangland human traffickers and only one man can come to her rescue, with an arsenal of weapons and years of experience in the art of killing.Road to Boston
IMDB 6.5 | Sep , 2023
A rousing tale of the Korean athletes who ran the 1947 Boston International Marathon, the first international marathon held since World War II.The Continent in Flames
IMDB 0 | Nov , 1965
The activities of a group of Korean independence fighters in Mongolia, who try to steal a valuable item from the Japanese Army.Pacchigi! Love & Peace
IMDB 7 | Oct , 2007
In 1974, during the height of the recession, a Japanese Korean family relocates to Tokyo to raise money and seek better treatment for their ill son.Manchurian Tiger
IMDB 5 | Jun , 1974
In Manchuria during the 1940's, a karate master named Sazaki and hapkido champion Wang make plans to rob the Korean Independence Army of its funds. However, unknown to them, the money is guarded by one Mr Lee--a grand master of taekwondo.General's Son 2
IMDB 5.4 | Jul , 1991
Upon being released from prison, Kim Du-han begins rebuilding his street gang in the face of Hayashi's Yakuzas and increasing Japanese influence.General's Son 3
IMDB 6.3 | Sep , 1992
Following the final events of General's Son 2, Kim Du-han is forced to go on the lam but eventually returns to Jongro where he attempts to rebuild his gang with the brothers that are still alive and loyal and defeat Hayashi's Yakuzas once and for all.Yu Gwan-Sun
IMDB 4 | May , 1959
This film is about of the life of the young patriotic martyr Yu Gwan-sun, who fought for the liberation of her country during the Independence Movement in 1919. As the Independence Movement becomes more and more intense among Korean students, the Japanese authorities order schools closed temporarily. Yu Gwan-sun (Do Geum-bong) persuades her neighbors to join the national movement, and continues her aggressive struggle against Japanese rule. An independent campaign at Aunae, a market site, is successful with the passionate participation of many people. She is arrested by the Japanese police for leading the campaign and has to endure horrible tortures. But she never gives up her fight, encouraging her cell mates to participate in the movement. She is finally taken to an underground room by the Japanese police and murdered.Once Upon a Time
IMDB 6 | Jan , 2008
The film is a heist comedy set in 1940s Korea, and stars Park Yong-woo and Lee Bo-young as a con artist and jazz singer who each plot to steal a valuable diamond from the Japanese authorities.Harbin
IMDB 8 | Dec , 2024
In 1909, several years after Korea is forced into becoming a Japanese colony, freedom fighters plot the daring assassination of Japan’s prime minister during their quest for independence.When Acacias Bloom
IMDB 6 | Jun , 1962
A man assists a woman in danger, but through her actions, she unintentionally causes his death. Everyone in the village knows that she visits his tomb every spring, but no one knows the details of her story.Anarchist from Colony
IMDB 7.4 | Jun , 2017
Based on the life of the Korean anarchist Park Yeol, the film shows his struggle to counter the massacre of Koreans by the government during the 1923 great Kanto earthquake, focusing on his activities as the leader of the anti-Japanese organization Bulryeongsa and his relationship with Japanese comrade Fumiko Kaneko.Snowy Road
IMDB 6.8 | Mar , 2015
Jongbun is sick of poverty and she admires Young-ae, a smart and pretty friend. Taking place at the end of Japanese colonialism, a sad but beautiful story about two girls begins.GO
IMDB 7.4 | Oct , 2001
Sugihara, a Japanese-born, third-generation Korean teenager struggles to find a place in a society that will not accept him.The True Story of Kim Du-han
IMDB 0 | Dec , 1974
The son of a Chosun Dynasty general, Kim Du-han finds himself orphaned when the dynasty ends and the Japanese colonize Korea in the early 1900's. He sets out to build a resistance army in this historical drama.Remember
IMDB 7.5 | Oct , 2022
Pil-ju, an Alzheimer's patient in his 80s, who lost all his family during the Japanese colonial era, and devotes his lifelong revenge before his memories disappear, and a young man in his 20s who helps him.Hero
IMDB 6.6 | Dec , 2022
Ahn Jung-geun, a commander in the Korean Independence Army, leaves behind his country, his family and his mother Cho Maria. Ahn Jung-geun and his comrades cut off the last segment of their ring fingers as a symbol of their dedication to liberate their nation, and as a solemn oath to kill Ito Hirobumi, a man at the center of Japan’s occupation of Korea, within three years. To keep his oath, Ahn Jung-geun arrives in Vladivostok. Meanwhile, Seol-hee, the independence fighters’ informant, disguises herself to get close to Ito Hirobumi. She finds out that Ito Hirobumi will be heading to Harbin to meet with a Russian delegation, and urgently informs the independence fighters. The fateful day of October 26, 1909 arrives. Ahn Jung-geun, who has been yearning for this day does not hesitate to fire his gun at Ito Hirobumi at Harbin Station. Arrested on site, he is charged with murder and tried not in a court of Joseon but in that of Japan…