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Frères de sang

Original title: Taegukgi hwinallimyeo
  • 2004
  • 12
  • 2h 20m
IMDb RATING
8.0/10
42K
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Frères de sang (2004)
Period DramaTragedyActionDramaWar

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.

  • Director
    • Kang Je-kyu
  • Writers
    • Kang Je-kyu
    • Sang-don Kim
    • Han Ji-hoon
  • Stars
    • Jang Dong-gun
    • Won Bin
    • Lee Eun-ju
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    8.0/10
    42K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Kang Je-kyu
    • Writers
      • Kang Je-kyu
      • Sang-don Kim
      • Han Ji-hoon
    • Stars
      • Jang Dong-gun
      • Won Bin
      • Lee Eun-ju
    • 255User reviews
    • 68Critic reviews
    • 64Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 14 wins & 19 nominations total

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    Jang Dong-gun
    Jang Dong-gun
    • Lee Jin-tae
    Won Bin
    Won Bin
    • Lee Jin-seok
    Lee Eun-ju
    Lee Eun-ju
    • Kim Young-shin
    Gong Hyung-jin
    Gong Hyung-jin
    • Yong-man
    • (as Gong Hyeong-jin)
    Lee Yeong-ran
    • Mother Lee
    Ahn Kil-kang
    Ahn Kil-kang
    • Sergeant Huh
    Jin Jung
    • Sergeant Lim
    Jeon Jae-hyeong
    • Yong-seok
    Jang Min-ho
    • Old Lee Jin-seok
    Jo Yun-hie
    Jo Yun-hie
    • Lee Jin-seok's grandaughter
    Kim Bo-kyung
    • North Korean war prisoner
    Jeong Dae-hoon
    Go Do-hee
    • Kim Young-gook
    Jung Doo-hong
    Jung Doo-hong
    Jung Gi-sub
    Jung Gi-sub
    • Medic
    Bae Jang-soo
    • Noodles guest
    Kim Kyung-hwan
    • Kim Young-min
    Choi Min-sik
    Choi Min-sik
    • North Korean Captain
    • Director
      • Kang Je-kyu
    • Writers
      • Kang Je-kyu
      • Sang-don Kim
      • Han Ji-hoon
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    User reviews255

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    10wldbest

    Harry's Top Ten Movies of 2004 - No.1

    That's what this movie is. Pure hell. If you're that person that screamed in agony when Shakespeare IN LOVE beat SAVING PRIVATE RYAN – find this movie and realize just how much better TAE GUK GI: BROTHERHOOD OF WAR is than just about every war film ever made. A story of two brothers during the Korean War. The movie is spectacle larger than any film made this year, but as intimate as a tale of brothers could ever be. I grew up with Sam Fuller, Peckinpah, Spielberg and the war films of Hollywood. This thing… it's just amazing. I went to see it on "Can Day" here in Austin… where you donate 3 cans of food to the homeless and see any movie you want. I saw 4 films that day, this was the 3rd – and it just completely blew me away. I instantly got the Korean Box Set – and have seen it many times since… Unfortunately – the day I saw it in the theater was the last day it was showing in Austin. A BRILLIANT FILM. The film will just shake you to the core. The South Koreans are making brutally brilliant films. Amazing. Should be re-released with a major advertising campaign. The trailers you could cut of this thing… my god. Stunning film and my pick for the best film of 2004 ! Check the site - http://aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=19054
    10chris_santner

    Better than any Hollywood production

    I have watched Taegukgi for the first time just yesterday, so my impressions of the movie are still fresh. I have not known much about the Korean War that took place at the beginning of the 1950's, but that was a history lesson I will not easily forget. Taegukgi is really the best (anti-)war movie I have ever seen. And believe me, I have seen a lot. But no movie ever before has impressed me so much. In most Hollywood productions there is only one perspective, the winners view. Many directors tried to make a movie that shows both sides of the conflict, but all of them failed. Until now: Taegugki is showing the situation mostly from the south korean view too, but it is the first movie which shows also the "other side". I was very surprised, that the director showed also the crime that his own government committed to their own people at this time. That movie is the first war movie that is not glorifying war - it's horrifying, terrifying, scary - like in reality.
    calvin0272

    An Epic

    I never liked subtitled movies, until this one. Just watched it last night and couldn't stop thinking about it.

    The movie started with the life of two brothers before the war, a life that was almost perfect until the war shatters all. Everything goes downhill from there. Despite all their best intentions, the two brothers helplessly watched their fate sinking and themselves drifting apart, with only dotted moments of hope and triumgh, when unconditional love and human spirit break through the darkness.

    Comparing to "Saving Private Ryan", this movie gives characters a more human touch. "SPR" seems to moralize too much, no flaws, just hero's. The result is the characters came off plain and two-dimensional. Agree with Saturday-3's comment on SPR posted on 9/13/04 that "SPR almost seems like nothing more than a visually stunning, flag-waving movie". By the way, I am a big fan of Steven Spielburg and Tom Hanks, so there wasn't any bias there. On a side note, "Band of brothers", on the contrary, is very very good.

    What I don't get, is how a mediocre subtitled movies such as "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Hero" gets so much marketing effort and a truly amazing one like this gets nothing. By the way, I am a Chinese currently living in the States. So I guess that wasn't a very patriotic thing to say. IMHO, "Hero" is just a compilation of beautiful pictures. "Crouching Tiger" is even worse. (It's probably because I was able to understand the original dialogue and can tell how little effort was put into anything other than making the pictures look pretty.)

    Hats off to Koreans for making such a great epic. "Tae Guk Gi" is a reminder of the difference between art and entertainment, a reminder that wars, as well as movies, are not about bang-bang actions and special effects. They are about human beings.

    The only complaints that I could think of are: 1. The music during the beginning of the movie seems a little too sentimental. 2. The camera shakes too much during action scenes, probably deliberately, to create the chaos with a limited budget. But I don't have a problem with the length of the movie. The two and half hours felt like 1.5 hour when you were drawn into the intensity of the film.

    If you are still wondering if you want to see this movie, go watch the trailer on the internet. Make sure you watch the one starting with the announcement of "ShowBox". Oh, hell, just watch the movie. Chances are you won't regret it.

    As for myself, I am going to pre-order the DVD. I can't remember when was the last time that I want to see the bonus material of a movie so badly.

    If you like the movie, I would also recommend "When trumpets fade" and "Band of Brothers".
    9qfb1

    One of the Best Movie About War

    It started out like so many other movies, a short clip of the present and then a long flashback. And then it blew me away with its depiction of war and all of its complexities. The changes in the attitudes of the two brothers as the Korean War progresses helps us understand that war is not merely about good and evil. The most well intentioned soldier or commander can go astray. The Korean War turned brother against brother based on little more than time and place, conviction, or happenstance.

    Take Guk Gi is the best antiwar movie that I have seen since Johnny Got His Gun.

    It reminded me of the beginning of Saving Private Ryan, which I thought captured some of the reality of war while avoiding the pitfalls that Saving Private Ryan fell.

    If the DC crowd watched the Battle of Algiers but missed the message, All Americans should see Tae Guk Gi to better understand the horror and tragedy of war.
    simon_booth

    Impressive war film from Korea

    I'm not a big fan of war films, unless the war in question was at least a couple hundred years ago or somewhere in the future, or the stars - but I did enjoy SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, if "enjoy" is the best word to use for such an experience. Apparently, director Kang Je-Gyu (SHIRI) enjoyed SPR too, as its influence on his Korean war film TAEGUKGI is impossible to deny. SHIRI was the South Korean film that probably did more than any other to bring the country's cinematic new wave into being, and especially into the field of view of the rest of the world at large. Its main accomplishment was, arguably, demonstrating that Korea could make a film that competed head on with Hollywood product, in terms of slick production values but also perhaps in terms of vacuous scripts Although it is rather shallow compared to other Korean films, though, I think it's safe to say that SHIRI had more depth than Hollywood would have injected into a similar story.

    TAEGUKGI is his first film since SHIRI, and he's definitely playing the Hollywood game again - tackling Spielberg head on this time. Like SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, TAEGUKGI attempts to humanise war by giving us some specific characters to focus on (in this case, two brothers played by Won Bin and Jang Dong-Kun) - and then uses our personal connection to show us that war is actually a dehumanising experience. The film also spares no effort in showing us the ability of bullets, knives and bombs to turn human beings into squishy piles of gore.

    There's a fairly obvious political symbolism in the story of two brothers and the effects the Korean war has on their lives and relationship - I don't know if it would be fair to read the ending as a view about the conditions under which Korean reunification might occur though. The ending of the film won't come as much of a surprise, since it's basically foretold at the start with a scene set in the present day. The exact details might be a little unexpected though.

    If you like your modern-ish day war films, and specifically if you liked SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, then there's very little doubt that TaeGukGi will impress. It's big, slick and well put together. Since it's not my favourite genre or topic of interest, I can't say I loved it like a brother, but was sufficiently satisfied with it given what it is.

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    Storyline

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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.

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    • Release date
      • May 11, 2005 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • South Korea
    • Language
      • Korean
    • Also known as
      • Hermandad De Guerra
    • Filming locations
      • A-San City, South Korea(Jin-tea's home)
    • Production companies
      • Kang Je-Kyu Film Co. Ltd.
      • KD Media
      • KTB Network
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $12,800,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $1,111,061
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $260,135
      • Sep 5, 2004
    • Gross worldwide
      • $81,407,286
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Tech specs

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    • Runtime
      • 2h 20m(140 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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