The Battleship Island

The Battleship Island

  • Director: Seung-wan Ryoo
  • Countries of origin: South Korea
  • Language: Korean, Japanese
  • Release date: July 26, 2017
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 2.35 : 1
  • Also known as: Đảo Địa Ngục
  • "The Battleship Island" is a war action film produced by Filmmaker R&K, directed by 류승완 , Hwang Jeong Min , 소지섭; So Ji Sub , Song Joong Ki , and AVA . It was released in South Korea on July 26, 2017.
    The film mainly tells the story of more than 400 North Koreans who were forcibly requisitioned by the Japanese in The Battleship Island during the Japanese colonial rule   .

    Details

    • Release date July 26, 2017
    • Filming locations Cheongju, South Korea
    • Production companies Filmmaker R&K

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $1,104,957

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $59,344

    Gross worldwide

    $46,183,383

    Movie reviews

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    • By Jamey 2022-12-28 20:15:34

      Little boy lights the way home

      Regarding the actors
            , aside from Huang Zhengmin, Su Zhixie's strength, the performance of a little girl can be a benchmark for child star performances, and Li Zhenxian is very special and quite satisfactory. Refreshing the cognition of Song Zhongji and discovering that stars, fresh meat, and artists are really the greatest irony of an actor.
            The filth about the human nature of the plot
            can only be most directly reflected in the worst circumstances. In the...

    • By Percy 2022-12-28 01:07:28

      Can't write short reviews

      It's alright just after watching it. I really don't like the plot of "We have bullets that know how to distinguish between enemy and self, and have good eyesight". I originally played Samsung.

      Suddenly, I felt that the film was worthy of four stars because of the anti-Japanese theme to expose domestic corruption moths, as well as the line of the little girl and her father. The father and daughter acted very well, Song Joong Ki and Su Ji Sub Oppa should be quite satisfactory, I like...

    • By Bettie 2022-12-23 16:34:51

      What touched me the most was the father-daughter relationship.

      The film is changed based on real historical events. The background is that during World War II, Japan forcibly recruited a large number of laborers from North Korea to perform inhuman labor on Gunkanjima, and a large number of workers were tortured to death. Japan was defeated, and in order to destroy the evidence, all the laborers on the warship island were to be executed. After the laborer learned the news, under the leadership of some protagonists, they started a journey of...

    • By Erika 2022-12-18 23:29:55

      A Brief Review of "Battleship Island"

      ...The whole narrative is clear, and through three character clues, it comprehensively shows the cruelty of the Japanese on the Battleship Island and the inferiority of the infighting of the nation. In the film, the scene where the whole island people set up ladders to escape from the warship island is moving and made many people cry. If the ending part can return to the historical facts, I believe it can arouse people's reflection on war and human nature.
             It tells the story of the...

    • By Laurianne 2022-12-17 19:26:34

      Battleship Island and the founding of the army xx

      After watching the Korean movie Adverse Power Driver, I have a lot of insights. Why can't China make that kind of movie? We only pursue fan movies. I really don’t understand what is good about fan movies. It’s like the filming of Jianjun xx in July and August this year. Let’s take a look at other people’s Warship Island. Although it has changed a bit of history, I have to admit that Warship Island was shot. The thing that we can't make is that the depiction of each character has a symbolic...

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    • By Cassandra 2023-09-26 17:27:39

      The first half is pretty good, with jazz blessings, realistic and poetic, and then into the main topic is full of Korean film routines, until it finally turns into an anti-Japanese drama. I'm quite opposed to the sensationalism of historical films, but South Korea is obviously playing tricks on sensationalism, and the father-daughter line is very touching. Song Joong Ki's character is flat, there's nothing to say, but Su Ji Sub is so handsome, my God. The degree of completion is OK, no big...

    • By Jimmie 2023-09-23 06:32:20

      Is it interesting to force sensationalism? ? If you want to make people cry, you can't cry, and Song Joong Ki has no light in front of So Ji Sub, completely covering it...

    • By Anahi 2023-09-23 05:20:43

      The confusion of editing and subplots reflects the lack of narrative ability; the story is so busy to settle all the accusations of the colonists and traitors that each victim is hurriedly passed, only miserable but not for anyone. The characters other than Uncle Huang are all empty shells and "elements" of the blockbuster, but Jiang Yu's nature cannot be shared by the audience (of course, she plays it well). At the end of the melee, I felt like I was busy working. Isn't it over too early to...

    • By Vita 2023-09-21 17:27:34

      The back is boring enough, it's really blinding this...

    • By Ole 2023-09-07 06:28:13

      With a decent degree of completion and execution, Korean-style fanning is not a big problem here, but I think the "Battleship Island" that more people want to see should be a heavy epic of war and resistance, right? To be honest, this setting and lineup rationing are a bit wasteful. Song Joong Ki is good, overshadowed by So Ji Sub, Hwang Jung Min is still the same, and the little girl from the trip to Busan played the same ending scene...

    Movie plot

    In 1945, in the turbulent period when the war was about to end and rumors arose, the head of the Peninsula Hotel Jazz Band Lee Kang-yu ( Hwang Jeong Min ) took his only daughter Su Hee ( Kim Soo An ) with the band and the fighter Cui Chi- sung who dominated Jongno. ( 소지섭; So Ji Sub ) , Sueko ( AVA ) and other North Koreans who suffered all the time under Japanese rule, were deceived by lies that could make money and went to Japan, but...
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    Behind the scenes gags

    On July 21, 2016, Park Bo Gum and Cha Tae Hyun went to the studio to explore Song Joong Ki in South Yangju, Gyeonggi Province , and gave Song Joong Ki a love gift   .
    On July 26, 2016, Yoo Ah In delivered a coffee and tea car to the crew of "The Battleship Island".
    In order to restore the character in the film to a high degree, Song Joong Ki shaved his head into the kind of soldier in the South Korean army...
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    Creative background

    Director 류승완 originally planned a new film after "Veteran" is "Dawn's Eyes", but because of copyright issues, it aborted, so he switched to "The Battleship Island".
    The Battleship Island is an island 18 kilometers away from Nagasaki Port. The people on the Korean peninsula who were brought here were forced to dig coal mines in coal mine tunnels 1,000 meters below the seabed with temperatures as high as 40 degrees. According to the...
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    Filming process

    On April 27, 2016, the producer of "The Battleship Island" entered the camping venue of the former U.S. military base to set up a studio for the preliminary set-up of the shooting   ; in order to perfectly reproduce the scene at the time, the crew of "The Battleship Island" spent a lot of money to create The film is equivalent to two-thirds of The Battleship Island and made various props with reference to a large amount of historical...
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    Early publicity

    On September 28, 2016, the crew of "The Battleship Island" recorded a congratulatory video for the first London East Asian Film Festival, and revealed the appearance of several protagonists for the first time   .
    On January 25, 2017, the film crew released the pilot poster and first trailer   ; on May 30, the film released the poster and trailer   ; on June 7, the film released the first wave of official stills   ; 6 On the 15th, the...
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    Positive reviews

    The history of The Battleship Island, which is full of blood and tears, and this long-lost history, with the filming and release of the movie "The Battleship Island", once again aroused people's attention. The film helps more people understand this dark History   . (Comment by China Central Television)
    The popularity of "The Battleship Island" in the international community and Internet space will surely expose the evils of Japan's...
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    Negative reviews

    The performance of Hashima coal mining in the prologue is very impressive, but it ends here. Quite a lot of people on the Internet gave harsh comments such as "obviously anti-Japanese movies." The Battleship Island was used as the material, and the historical truth and the painful performance of the forced conscripts were left behind. It only focused on highlighting the fictional large-scale escape tricks and gun battle scenes, and the...
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    Movie quotes

    • Lee Gang-ok: I'm not going to die. Why are you crying?