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Assassination (2015)
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Assassination (2015)
Original name: 암살
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Assassination is set in Korea and Shanghai in the 1930's during the Japanese occupation. The government resistance assigns a secret commando group with killing collaborators.
Style: tense, captivating, exciting, suspense, neo noir, political, historical drama
Plot: japanese occupation, imperial japan, resistance, assassination, revenge, hitman, friendship, betrayal, father daughter relationship, nationalism, impersonation, danger, independence movement, spy, samurai, world war one, partisan, intrigue, occupation, japanese occupation of korea, man on a mission, sniper, murder, traitor, honor ...
Time: 1930s
Place: korea, japan, south korea
Keyword: korean

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Hwayi: A Monster Boy (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
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Duration: 126 min.
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Country: South Korea, Hong Kong
Duration: 142 min.
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The Age of Shadows (2016)
Genre: Action, History, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Set in the late 1920s, The Age of Shadows follows the cat-and-mouse game that unfolds between a group of resistance fighters trying to bring in explosives from Shanghai to destroy key Japanese facilities in Seoul, and Japanese agents trying to stop ...
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Plot: japanese occupation, spy, resistance, japanese occupation of korea, protest, independence movement, humanity, man on a mission, recovery, partisan, occupation, trust ...
Time: 1920s
Place: korea, south korea, shanghai, japan
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The Suspect (2013)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 137 min.
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The Berlin File (2013)
Genre: Action, Thriller
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Duration: 121 min.
Story: JUNG Jin-soo, a South Korean intelligence agent, comes across an unidentifiable operative, a 'ghost,' while surveilling a North Korean weapons deal in Berlin. The mystery figure is a North Korean secret agent, PYO Jong-seong, whose ...
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Duration: 122 min.
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Remember (2022)
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Duration: 128 min.
Story: Pil-ju, an Alzheimer's patient in his 80s, who lost all his family during the Japanese colonial era, and devotes his lifelong revenge before his memories disappear, and a young man in his 20s who helps him.
Style: suspenseful, psychological, captivating
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Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min.
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Duration: 136 min.
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Style: suspenseful, serious, exciting, stylized, cyber
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: South Korea, Hong Kong, USA
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 6.1
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 5.6
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