Review by Uriah43

This film takes place shortly after a military truce has been negotiated between North and South Korea which establishes boundaries between the two countries. Yet even though hostilities between the two sides have supposedly ended, one particular squad of North Korean soldiers continue to fight behind enemy lines with a cruel and vicious officer by the name of "Captain Chu Bong-hyuk" (Ye Chun-lee) resorting to banditry to support his operations. As far as his soldiers are concerned, although they are fully indoctrinated into the communist cause, a couple of them have grown tired of war with a male soldier named "Yoo-chul" (Wang-guk Yun) and a female soldier named "Oh Soju" (Yeong-hui Kim) being particularly exhausted. For her part, Oh Soju is treated the worst having been sexually assaulted by Captain Cu Bong-hyuk and treated with contempt by another female soldier by the name of "Secretary Ae-ran" (Kyoeng-hie No). To their credit, both Yoo-chul and Oh Soju endure things the best they can in spite of their situation. What they don't realize, however, is that things are about to get much worse for all concerned. Now, rather than reveal any more, I will just say that this was an interesting film which, from what I understand, had some basis in historical fact. To that effect, this made the film even more compelling in my view. The main problem I found with it, however, centered on the rather basic subtitles which sometimes made things a little difficult to understand. Even so, I thought that this was a pretty good film for the most part, and I have rated it accordingly. Slightly above average.