Brotherhood

Starring: Bin Won, DongKun Jang Original UK Premiere: 2004 Dvd Release: 5th September, 2005 Number Of Discs: 2 Format: Anamorphic, Box set, PAL, Subtitled, Widescreen, Region 2 Encoding Subtitled In: English Dubbed In: English

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A big, bruising epic of the Korean War, Tae Guk Gi or Brotherhood smashed box-office records when it played in South Korea in 2004, almost as though the country needed to re-live the trauma at a 50-year distance. For the rest of the world, this movie looks like a ground-level reckoning in a melodramatic key, with an authentic feel for battle lines as well as home front. It follows two brothers, one uneducated & forceful, the other intellectual & reserved, as they are united & then divided by the conflict. The broadly emotional story has some of the power of tales of the American Civil War, when family members found themselves on opposite sides of a battle. Director Kang Je-gyu , who made the lively female-assassin hit Shiri, takes a blunt approach to the material . And at 150 minutes, he has plenty of time for head-splitting, blood-spraying combat. This movie is meant as a punch in the stomach, & it connects.

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