This is the sixth film by director Ryoo Seung-wan to be selected for a screening at this film festival. The film will be shown in the Orbita section for introducing most notable films of the year and honouring a title chosen by the jury composed of audiences. The film has been invited to compete at 2017 Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia in Spain. On June 16, 2017, an official press conference was held at the National Museum of Korea to launch the film. As of June 2017, it has been sold to 113 countries, including North American countries as well as France, Italy, Russia, Turkey, Malaysia, Taiwan, Indonesia, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Thailand. The Battleship Island was first promoted at the European Film Market in February 2017 and then at the Cannes Film Festival in May. The sets were built in Chuncheon and were designed to resemble the conditions of Hashima Island's community and mines during the 1940s. While the island provided the inspiration for the plot, The Battleship Island was not filmed on location. Production cost about five times more than the average locally produced film due to the massive lifelike sets. The film reunites Hwang Jung-min with Ryoo Seung-wan, who directed the 2015 hit movie Veteran starring Hwang. She was being captured by Japanese general because of her talents in singing and dancing.įilming began Jin Cheongju, South Korea and finished on December 20, 2016. Under his harsh and rough exterior, he has a good heart.Ī member of the Korean independence movement who infiltrates the island in order to rescue a fellow independence fighter being held captive there.Ī comfort woman who gets moved to Hashima after going through endless troubles under Japanese occupation, but never loosens her strong grip on hope. The best street fighter in Gyeongseong, a coarse man who constantly stirs up troubles in the labor camp. But they get sent to the Hashima labor camp instead, and there he'll do anything that's asked of him, as long as he can protect his daughter. Cast Main Ī bandmaster at a hotel in Gyeongseong, who chooses to take his only daughter to Japan in order to keep her safe. Set during Imperial Japan’s occupation of Korea during World War 2, a group of over 400 Koreans endure harsh forced labor on Hashima Island and risk their lives to attempt a daring escape. It is a Japanese occupation-era film about an attempted prison break from a forced labor camp on Hashima Island. The Battleship Island ( Korean: 군함도 Hanja: 軍艦島 RR: Gunhamdo) is a 2017 South Korean period action film starring Hwang Jung-min, So Ji-sub, Song Joong-ki and Lee Jung-hyun.
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