Frères de sang

Original title: Taegukgi hwinallimyeo

2004
12
2h 20m

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When two brothers are forced to fight in the Korean War, the elder decides to take the riskiest missions if it will help shield the younger from battle.When two brothers are forced to fight in the Korean War, the elder decides to take the riskiest missions if it will help shield the younger from battle.When two brothers are forced to fight in the Korean War, the elder decides to take the riskiest missions if it will help shield the younger from battle.

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IMDb RATING

8.0/10

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Awards
- 14 wins & 19 nominations total

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Trivia
To recreate the battle at Doo-Mil-Ryung, the scene required 15,000 bullets, 3,000 extras and 500 stunt experts. Instead of rifles being fired, fist fights were the main focus of the scene and all of the cast were specially trained. The shoot lasted three weeks with about 50 minor accidents a day on average, but the scene was finally wrapped without any major accidents.

Goofs
In the scene where North Korean soldiers ambush Jin Tae and several other South Korean soldiers while they're laying mines, one of the South Koreans steps on a mine and it blows his leg off. However, the M15 Anti-tank mine, which was the mine they were using, requires a force of 350 to 750 lbs to detonate.

Quotes
Jin-seok: I wish this was all just a dream. I want to wake up in my bed, and over breakfast, I'd tell you that I had a strange dream. Then I would go to school, and you and mom would go to work.

Alternate versions
Also released in a director's cut running 148min, 8min longer than the US and original version.

Connections
References Il faut sauver le soldat Ryan (1998)

Soundtracks
Oppaneun punggakjaengi
Written by Kim Song Kyu and Park Yeong Ho
Sung by Park Hyang Rim.

User reviews252

Featured review

An education for younger people on why wars are bad things.

My summary is no reflection on the current state of affairs in the world. More, that it shows my feeling that films like Taegukgi and Saving Private Ryan should be shown to young people in their early teens as part of the school curciullum, history perhaps, to show them what real close combat, death, destruction, disruption, loss, hatred, emotion, blood, guts, limbs, tears, sweat, fear and sadness is generated by wars. The UK schools shows films for sex education and even films showing animal slaughter, which drove my sister, and I'm sure a lot of other young people to stop eating meat. This film does the job very, very, well for illustrating the immeasurable 'pain' of war.

This was my first Korean film and I was extremely impressed. I completely agree with the comments of Phillip Brander, posted 2 Feb 2004. And am glad to report that the subtitles, to me at least, appeared to be a lot better when I saw it in July 2004.

I would hope maybe that this goes onto get some more international recognition. And in turn get more recognition for the war.

8.25/10 (with better editing I would go up to 9)

I can't wait to see what the next epic will be....