Heaven's soldiers = Chʻŏnʼgun /
천군 Heaven's soldiers /
The film kicks off with stock footage of the historic meeting between the two Korean leaders in June 2000, using this real life moment as a springboard for the film's fictional premise that North and South Korea secretly formed an alliance, agreeing to co-produce their very own weapon of mass d...
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| Format: | Unknown |
| Language: | Korean English |
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[Seoul] :
Daekyŏng DVD,
2006
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| Summary: | The film kicks off with stock footage of the historic meeting between the two Korean leaders in June 2000, using this real life moment as a springboard for the film's fictional premise that North and South Korea secretly formed an alliance, agreeing to co-produce their very own weapon of mass destruction! But when the two Koreans decide to hand over the warhead to the United States, North Korean military officer Kang Min Gil decides to take matters into his own hands and not only steal the weapon with the help of private soldiers but kidnap the female South Korean scientist who helped create it as well ! Things get even more difficult for Kang as South Korean Navy Officer Park Jeong Woo is sent by his superiors to capture the rogue soldier and reclaim the weapon. In the midst of a battle on the DMZ, the soldiers are suddenly transported through time thanks to the appearance of a mysterious comet. In a blink of an eye, the soldiers find themselves trapped in the 16th century, a dark time in Korean history, which saw its countrymen spending most of their time battling off the advances of foreign invaders. After defeating a band of looters with their high-powered machine guns, the time displaced soldiers are hailed as conquering heroes by the locals. Dubbed 'Heaven's Soldiers" the group ends up meeting Yi Sun Shin, the real life admiral who led Korea to victory against the Japanese. However, the legendary Yi isn't quite what the soldiers expected. Rather than the mythical hero of legend he's thought to be in the present day, the Yi the soldiers encounter is actually a thief and rascal, one who can't even pass the officer's exam! Shocked that their hero could be so lax in his studies, the soldiers give Yi a crash course in military education, all in the hopes he'll fullfill his destiny! But will Yi discover his true calling in time or will he doom both himself and his beloved country? |
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| Item Description: | Originally produced as a motion picture in 2005 This WorldCat-derived record is shareable under Open Data Commons ODC-BY, with attribution to OCLC Title from container |
| Physical Description: | 2 video discs (106, 140 min.) : sd. col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet |
| Format: | DVD ; NTSC ; region 3 |
| Audience: | Age 15 and older |
| Production Credits: | Director, Min Chun-gi |