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SOUTH KOREA · 2016

The Age of Shadows

Kim Jee-woon
colonial resistance espionage Korean independence movement double agents underground warfare
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Synopsis

Set in the late 1920s, The Age of Shadows follows the cat-and-mouse game that unfolds between a group of resistance fighters trying to bring in explosives from Shanghai to destroy key Japanese facilities in Seoul, and Japanese agents trying to stop them.

Year2016
CountrySouth Korea
DirectorKim Jee-woon
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