마이 웨이

Yesterday I finally watched the Korean/Japanese movie My Way.

It was very different from what I expected and it was awesome to see two great actors such as Jang Dong-Gun and Odagiri Joe in the same movie.

The movie however was good, it has a touching story, but not as wow as the review said, however it was good! I liked it. Then again I like war stories and this one had more than normal war movies.

I'm really glad I could watch it!!

Also I know after reading some more, it didn't make lots of money as it hoped. Well.. once again this story is about Japan-Korea relations and it's still quite tense. So I'd say many people look at this as a disgrace of history, and maybe therefore chose not to see it, saying it's different from the real truth.

But in my opinion, for outsiders whom are not aware of the old times, you can watch it and enjoy, while also get an understanding for what happened 65+ years ago in Asia.

★★★

Plot
The year is 1928 in Gyeong-seong (modern-day Seoul), Korea. Young Kim Jun-shik, his father and sister Eun-soo work on the farm of the Hasegawa family in Japanese-occupied Korea. Both Jun-shik and young Hasegawa Tatsuo are interested in running; by the time they are teenagers, they have become fierce competitors. Tatsuo's grandfather is killed in a bomb attack by a Korean freedom fighter and subsequently a Korean runner, Sohn Kee-chung, wins a marathon race against Japanese competitors, further inflaming Korean-Japanese tensions.
In May 1938, Jun-shik is working as a rickshaw runner. Koreans have been banned from taking part in sports events and Tatsuo, now a fierce Japanese nationalist, has sworn that a Korean will never again win a race. Though he has been accepted by a medical college in Berlin, Tatsuo decides to stay in Korea to run in the All Japan Trials for the marathon...

Cast
Jang Dong-gun - Kim Jun-shik
Joe Odagiri - Tatsuo Hasegawa
Fan Bingbing - Shirai
Kim In-kwon - Lee Jong-dae
Lee Yeon-hee - Kim Eun-soo
Kim Hee-won - Choon Bok