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Cheon gun (2005)
The film is an express of director's politic opinion
It looks like the movie didn't cause much money, but it did cause the director a lot of thinking to put his thoughts into this comedy. The movie express a nationalism idea in the director's own opinion: unite with the north and go against the foreigners. The comic parts are mostly from the portrayal of south and north (the north officer always stand on the left,north Korean soldiers' arrogance...) I love the ending very much, when Admiral Lee's 13 ships had to face the 300 ships from Japan (a real battle in history which Koreans won), he motivated his sailors: as we are united, there's nothing can stop us. Which is the idea the director wants to tell his country men. Korea is a smaller country compare to any potential opponent, it has to be united.
Shinobi (2005)
A fantastic movie by itself
This is the rating I would give before watching the animation version of it. I've watched the animation afterwards, it is true that the movie had a lot of changes over the animation that surely has been a disappointment for the fans of the animation or manga. However there's something we must understand. The story was first in the form of a novel, and the novel fans were disappointed with the manga, the manga fans were disappointed with the animation, and now the animation fans are disappointed with the movie. We as humen, idealize things. Say when we read the novel, we imagine how one character looks like, but it might turnout very different when his/her face appears in the manga. So when we rate this movie, we should stick to the movie, and I say, it's a pretty good one. By the way, it got my favourite Japanese star Erika Sawajiri!