Japanese Colonial Rule Korean Dramas & Movies
Mr. Sunshine
Mr. Sunshine centers on a young boy born into a house servant’s family who travels to the United States during the 1871 Shinmiyangyo (U.S. expedition to Korea). He returns to...
The Bridal Mask
Lee Kang To is an ambitious and callous Korean officer employed by the Japanese colonists. Despite his mother’s disapproval of his work and his own brother’s antagonistic history with the...
My Way
After emerging as bitter rivals and enemies as young marathon runners, Korean native Kim Jun Shik and Japanese aristocrat Tatsuo Hasegawa, both find themselves in the Japanese army, fighting the...
Pachinko
This sweeping saga chronicles the hopes and dreams of a Korean immigrant family across four generations as they leave their homeland in an indomitable quest to survive and thrive. (Source:...
The Battleship Island
During the Japanese colonial era, roughly 400 Korean people, who were forced onto Battleship Island (‘Hashima Island’) to mine for coal, attempt to escape. (Source: CJ Entertainemnt)...
The Hymn of Death
Kim Woo Jin is a stage drama writer while Korea is under Japanese occupation. He is married, but he falls in love with Yun Shim Deok. Shim Deok is the...
The Last Princess
Princess Deok Hye was the last princess of Korea. Under Japanese colonial rule, she is taken to Japan as a hostage. With the era’s harsh conditions, she struggles to maintain...
The Handmaiden
During 1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, Sook Hee is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, Hideko, who lives a secluded life on a large countryside...
Snowy Road
The movie depicts the sad and beautiful friendship between two friends: Jong Boon, who was tired of living in poverty during the Japanese occupation, and her pretty and smart friend,...
Malmoe: The Secret Mission
Set in the 1940’s when Korea was under Japanese occupation. Korean people were banned from speaking their own language during that time. Pan Soo has been imprisoned several times and...
Assassination
During the Japanese occupation, an agent was tasked to assemble a group to criminalate a Japanese commander and a Korean collaborator by extricating three prisoners from Shanghai. However, the Japanese...
Love, Lies
The story takes place in 1943, during the Imperial Japanese occupation of Korea. In the film, best friends Jung So Yul and Seo Yeon Hee are two of the last...
Spirits’ Homecoming
In 1943, 14-year-old Jung Min’s ordinary yet happy life shatters when she is taken by Japanese soldiers to a comfort station located in China. There, as comfort women, a bunch...
Anarchist from Colony
Set in Korea under Japanese rule period. In 1923, an odd rumor spreads that around 6,000 Koreans are massacred after the Great Kanto Earthquake. In order to conceal this event,...
Remember
A man in his 80s lost everything, because of someone during the Japanese occupation of Korea era. The old man decides to take revenge on the person who caused his...
Dong Ju: The Portrait of a Poet
Based on the life and work of Korea’s renowned poet, Yun Dong Ju. Dong Ju, while studying literature in Japan, was charged and detained for having participated in the Korean...
The Tiger
Set towards the end of the Joseon dynasty, when Korea was under Japanese rule. Rather than a cruel tale of chasing down a rare, beautiful animal, the story is a...
Drama Special Season 8: Let Us Meet
Lee Soo Ji wants to marry the best modern boy in Kyungsung (old name for Seoul). To do so, Soo Ji goes to a matchmaking company. Cha Joo Oh is...
Capital Scandal
This drama is set in the 1930’s when Korea was under the rule of Japan. Na Yeo Kyeong was the owner of a book store and she was also a...
Drama Special Season 11: Modern Girl
Set during the era when Korea was under Japanese occupation. Shin-Deuk is the daughter of a poor noble family. She married Jong-Suk at a young age. Her in-laws, who are...
Inspiring Generation
Shin Jung Tae loses his father at the age of 15 when a Japanese soldier shoots him during the Japanese occupation of Shanghai in the 1930s. But instead of finding...
Basketball
Drama series is set within the turbulent period between the Japanese colonial era and the division of Korea into North and South. Kang San is from a poor family. He...
Phantom
An action-espionage film set in 1933, during the Japanese colonization of Korea. The film will tell the story of five suspects who are under suspicion of being the mysterious “Ghost,”...
Song of the Bandits
An action melodrama in which the people who have been deprived of their livelihoods blow a refreshing shot for their family and colleagues, set in the 1920s during the Japanese...