Mai wei

2011 [KOREAN]

Action / Drama / War

31
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 21% · 19 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 76% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.6/10 10 13573 13.6K

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Plot summary

During the invasion of Normandy the photograph of a slim Korean man in German uniform was found. It transpired that the man had served as a soldier in the Japanese, Russian and German armies. His incredible story inspired director Kang Je-Gyu to create this epic war drama.

Director

Top cast

Bingbing Fan as Shirai
Joe Odagiri as Tatsuo Hasegawa
Yukichi Kobayashi as High school Tatsuo
Kumi Nakamura as Tatsuo's mother
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU
1.29 GB
1280*544
Multiple languages 2.0
R
23.976 fps
2 hr 23 min
Seeds 5
2.64 GB
1920*816
Multiple languages 5.1
R
23.976 fps
2 hr 23 min
Seeds 17

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by deepkino 7 / 10

The cinematographer has done a magnificent job! Despite

The cinematographer has done a magnificent job! Despite numerous location changes, the film maintains a perfect harmony throughout, aided by meticulous editing and seamless transitions that avoid confusing the viewer. It is inspired by the true story as they say.
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Reviewed by tacitus-707-663549 9 / 10

Terrific film

I'm not sure why this film is not being promoted anywhere, as far as I can tell, but I saw it last weekend and it's extremely well-done. It's based on a supposedly true story of how a Korean marathon runner ends up impressed into service in the Japanese army during World War II, then is captured by the Soviets during the Japanese campaign in China, survives a Soviet POW camp, then is impressed into service in the Soviet army, defects to the Nazi army during a battle, and ends up unwillingly fighting for the Germans in Normandy during the D-Day invasion. I won't spoil the twist ending, but the script is terrific, the acting is great, cinematography is excellent, and the budget was huge. There are one or two sappy scenes at the very end, the title (at least as translated into English)is baffling and irrelevant to the story, and an Andrea Bocelli closing-credits song is saccharine and inappropriate, but those are the only deficits that keep me from giving this film a ten-rating. Highly recommended. In Korean with subtitles.

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