The Battle: Roar to Victory
The Battle: Roar to Victory is a 2019 South Korean period war drama film, revolving around the Battle of Fengwudong between Korean independence militias and Japanese forces in 1920 during the Japanese occupation of Korea.
Plot
After the March First Movement in 1919, the armed struggle of the independence forces became active in the Bongo-dong area. Armed with new weapons, Japan begins an operation to subdue the independence forces, and the independence forces decide to use the topography of Bongo-dong to overcome the unfavorable situation.In 1920, when [Korea under Nihongo|Japanese rule|Korea was under Japanese rule], the Korean independence forces' sword-wielding Hwang Hae-cheol and his subordinates such as sniper Byeong-gu carried out the operation to deliver funds to the Korean Provisional Government in Shanghai. During the operation Hwang Hae-chul is reunited with Jang-ha, a young squad commander, who has a suicide mission to bait the Japanese forces led by a general and first lieutenant into Bongo-dong.
Cast
- Yoo Hae-jin as Hwang Hae-cheol
- Ryu Jun-yeol as Yi Jang-ha
- Jo Woo-jin as Byeong-gu
- Kazuki Kitamura as Japanese general Yasukawa Jiro
- Hiroyuki Ikeuchi as Japanese first lieutenant Kusanagi
- Kotaro Daigo as Yukio
- Go Min-si as Hwa-ja
- Park Ji-hwan as Japanese lieutenant Shigeru Arayoshi
- Shim So-young as Chinese Shaman
- Sung Yu-bin as Gae Ddong-yi
- Park Hoon as a member of Jang Ha's unit
- Park Hee-soon as captured independence soldier