Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War

(2004)

★ 8 IMDb · 794 votes

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War

Year: 2004

Runtime: 148 мин

Country: South Korea, United States of America

Director: 강제규, Kang Je-gyu

Cast: 장동건, 원빈, 이은주, 공형진, 이영란, 장민호, Чо Юн-хи, Ан Кил Ган, 박길수, 정진

Plot

When two brothers are forced to fight in the Korean War, the elder decides to take the riskiest missions if it will help shield the younger from battle.

In 1950, in South Korea, shoe-shiner Jin-tae Lee and his 18-year-old old student brother, Jin-seok Lee, form a poor but happy family with their mother, Jin-tae's fiancé Young-shin Kim, and her young sisters. Jin-tae and his mother are tough workers, who sacrifice themselves to send Jin-seok to the university. When North Korea invades the South, the family escapes to a relative's house in the country, but along their journey, Jin-seok is forced to join the army to fight in the front, and Jin-tae enlists too to protect his young brother. The commander promises Jin-tae that if he gets a medal he would release his brother, and Jin-tae becomes the braver soldier in the company. Along the bloody war between brothers, the relationship of Jin-seok with his older brother deteriorates leading to a dramatic and tragic end.