• Audio - Korean
• Subtitles - English
• Year - 2004
• Genre - Drama/Action/War
• Run Time - 146 min

Cast

• Jang Dong-gun
• Won Bin
• Lee Eun-joo
• Kong Hyeong-jin
• Kim Soo-ro
• Ahn Kil-kang
• Jeong Jin

Synopsis

Jin-Tae shines shoes hoping to save money to send his younger brother Jin-Seok to university. Their mother runs a noodle shop wishing the best for her two sons even though things have been tough since her husband has passed away. Sending Jin-Seok to university has become the shining light in their family’s everyday lives.

With the start of the Korean War (June 25, 1950), Sin-Seok is unwillingly conscripted into the war, which forces Jin-Tae to join the war to save his brother and send him back to his mother. Without money or influence, the only hope to save his brother is for Jin-Tae to enlist in suicidal missions in order to earn the Medal of Honor, which will guaranteed Jin-Seok realises the truth of his brothers sacrifice.

Jin-Seok fails to understand his brother’s actions and misinterprets them as a dangerous mix of patriotism and an obsession with fame and glory. It is only at the fatal end that Jin-Seok realises the truth of his brother’s sacrifice.