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2009: Lost Memories

Original title: 2009 loseuteu maemorijeu
  • 20022002
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  • 2h 16m
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Jang Dong-Gun and Tôru Nakamura in 2009: Lost Memories (2002)
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A failed assassination attempt in Harbin, China in 1909 changes the course of history. Now two JBI agents must find the connections between it and an ancient Korean artifact.A failed assassination attempt in Harbin, China in 1909 changes the course of history. Now two JBI agents must find the connections between it and an ancient Korean artifact.A failed assassination attempt in Harbin, China in 1909 changes the course of history. Now two JBI agents must find the connections between it and an ancient Korean artifact.
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    • Si-myung Lee
    • Sang-hak Lee
    • Si-myung Lee
    • Carl Macek(dialogue: English version)
  • Stars
    • Jang Dong-Gun
    • Tôru Nakamura
    • Jin-ho Seo
    • Si-myung Lee
    • Sang-hak Lee
    • Si-myung Lee
    • Carl Macek(dialogue: English version)
  • Stars
    • Jang Dong-Gun
    • Tôru Nakamura
    • Jin-ho Seo
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    • 31Critic reviews
    • 40Metascore
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    Jang Dong-Gun
    Jang Dong-Gun
    • Sakamoto
    Tôru Nakamura
    Tôru Nakamura
    • Saigo
    Jin-ho Seo
    • Haerin
    Goo Shin
    Goo Shin
    • Takahashi
    Ho-jin Chun
    Ho-jin Chun
    • Elder
    Ahn Kil-kang
    Ahn Kil-kang
    • Myunghak
    • (as Kil-Kang Ahn)
    Rick Burford
    • Myunghak
    • (English version)
    • (voice)
    • …
    Victor Carsrud
    Victor Carsrud
    • Surveillance
    • (English version)
    • (voice)
    Luci Christian
    Luci Christian
    • Yuriko
    • (English version)
    • (voice)
    Kaytha Coker
    Kaytha Coker
    • Haerin
    • (English version)
    • (voice)
    Masaaki Daimon
    Masaaki Daimon
    Marty Fleck
    • Narrator
    • (English version)
    • (voice)
    John Gremillion
    John Gremillion
    • Junhwan
    • (English version)
    • (voice)
    • …
    Jay Hickman
    Jay Hickman
    • Hideyo
    • (English version)
    • (voice)
    • …
    Shôhei Imamura
    Shôhei Imamura
      Nobuyuki Katsube
      Gyu-ri Kim
      Gyu-ri Kim
      • Teacher
      • (as Min-sun Kim)
      Mike Kleinhenz
      • Commissioner
      • (English version)
      • (voice)
        • Si-myung Lee
        • Sang-hak Lee
        • Si-myung Lee
        • Carl Macek(dialogue: English version)
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      • Trivia
        Bok Geo-il, author of the source novel Bimyeong-eul Chajaseo ("Looking for an Epitaph") (1987), refused to be associated with the finished product, and successfully sued the film-makers to have his name removed from the credits.
      • Goofs
        When Sakamoto dives behind the couch you can see that next to his gun holster, on the back of the couch, there is a mound exactly where the squib for the gunshot is going to go off.
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        References Uisa Ahn Jung-geun (1972)

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      9/10
      Slam-bang action thriller one of the best yet from Korea
      2009 LOST MEMORIES (2002): Fantastic action thriller set in an deliberately-created alternate future in which Korea is just another Japanese state, and Koreans have largely lost their identity. A Korean-blooded, Japanese-named cop slowly realizes that the terrorists he's paid to wipe out are actually Korean freedom-fighters trying to restore the timeline to its proper state.

      This film gets slagged nearly everywhere, so I defend it whenever possible. It's a big, loud, arguably overblown "blockbuster" that deals with a very sensitive subject: Korean identity. People have, I believe, unfairly examined and criticized this film on two fronts:

      one, it's inherent patriotism, which is an element of Korean cinema that seems to alienate so many non-Korean viewers and yet is a fundamental part of the culture, probably more so than in any other Asian country (let alone much of the world). And two, the historical events behind its "science fiction," which nearly everybody I've read gets wrong. The key plot device of the film is NOT simply that Japan won World War II, but that the legendary Korean patriot Ahn Chung-gun FAILED in his assassination of Japanese foreign minister Ito Hirobumi in China in 1909 (thus, sort of, the point of the title being 100 years later). This single event is extremely important to the Korean culture and not only is their a gigantic memorial named after Ahn, but also a form of Tae Kwon Do. Looking these two names up on the internet greatly aids in understanding the deeper messages this film offers. I give it a 9.
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      • Aug 25, 2004

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        • February 1, 2002 (South Korea)
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      • 2 hours 16 minutes
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