The Age of Shadows

Name: The Age of Shadows
Genre: Action, History, Thriller
Released: 2016-09-07T00:00:00.000Z
Rating: 7.2

About The Age of Shadows

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 them.

The Age of Shadows is a 2016 history thriller film directed by Kim Jee-woon. It runs 140 minutes and was released in September 2016.

The film is filed under 1920s, independence movement, japanese occupation of korea, and korea.

Song Kang-ho takes the lead as Lee Jung-chool, Gong Yoo as Kim Woo-jin, Han Ji-min as Yun Gye-soon, and Shingo Tsurumi as Higashi. The screenplay is by Lee Ji-min and Park Jong-dae.

Assassination, Harbin, and The Battle: Roar to Victory make useful companions to The Age of Shadows, all filed under korean resistance. TMDB voters put it at 7.2 out of 10 across 387 votes.