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97% Rotten Tomatoes Hangul 밀정 Revised Romanization Miljeong Produced by Choi Jeong-hwa Director Kim Jee-woon Music director Mowg | 7.3/10 IMDb 3/4 Roger Ebert Hanja 密偵 McCune–Reischauer Milchŏng Written by Kim Jee-woon Box office 55.3 million USD | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Initial release 7 September 2016 (South Korea) Awards Grand Bell Award for Best Supporting Actor Cast Gong Yoo, Song Kang‑Ho, Han Ji‑min, Lee Byung‑hun, Tae‑goo Eom Similar Directed by Kim Jee-woon, Set on Trains, Thrillers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Age of Shadows (Hangul: 밀정; RR: Miljeong) is a 2016 South Korean action thriller film directed by Kim Jee-woon and written by Lee Ji-min and Park Jong-dae. The film stars Song Kang-ho and Gong Yoo. It was selected as the South Korean entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards but it was not nominated.
The film won the Best Picture award in the Action Features category at the 2016 Fantastic Fest held in Austin Texas.
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Plot
A Korean police captain named Lee Jung-chool (Song Kang-ho) whose cruel Japanese overlords have charged him with rooting out members of his country’s resistance movement. But while Lee has a history of selling out his own people to secure a favorable position with the Japanese, he’s been hit harder than usual by the death of Kim Jan-ok (Park Hee-soon), a resistance fighter who used to be his classmate. The leader of the resistance, Che-san (Lee Byung-hun), senses that this turncoat, if approached and handled properly, might be turned once more — this time in their favor. And so begins an incremental, ingeniously coded psychological dance between Lee and a key resistance figure named Kim Woo-jin (Gong Yoo), whose antique shop is a front for a scheme to smuggle explosives from Shanghai into Seoul. While Lee could theoretically bring down this operation at any moment, he seems just as likely to become an ally, thanks in no small part to Kim’s skillful application of pressure.
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Production
On August 3, 2015, it was announced that Warner Bros. would finance and distribute its first ever Korean-language 1930s set drama Secret Agent, and the $8.62 million budgeted film would also be produced by Grimm Pictures. The project and script was developed by Lee Ji-min and Park Jong-dae, which Kim Jee-woon would direct and the cast would be Song Kang-ho and Gong Yoo. A trailer was released on July 14, 2016, revealing the new title as The Age of Shadows.
Critical reception
The film has received critical acclaim. It has a score of 100% on Rotten Tomatoes with an average rating of 7.3/10 and 78% on Metacritic.
The Film Stage gave the film a positive review, writes "In short, mainstream audiences should get a kick out of this polished, often exciting patriotist drama. But those looking for a deeper, mightier resonance would be well advised to keep their expectations in check."
The Hollywood Reporter describes the film as "a patriotic costumer" and says, "Several impressive action scenes sustain the tension and electrify this overlong, often hard-to-follow story".
Variety wrote, "Cult director Kim Jee-woon delivers the goods with an ultra-stylish cloak-and-dagger actioner".
Screendaily noted that, "Local audiences should respond well to the stirring patriotic sentiment on display here".
Box office
The film topped the South Korean box office for three consecutive weeks.