Japanese Colonial Rule Korean Dramas & Movies

8.14 Gunsan 1945 (2019)

8.14 Gunsan 1945

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The story of nine people gathered at firearmsan Harbor on August 14, 1945, at the end of the Japanese colonial period and one day before the Japanese surrender. (Source: Written...

Mulberry 2 (1988)

Mulberry 2

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The wife of Chi Geun, the idiot street peddler, was born a beauty so the village boys endlessly try to seduce her. However, Chi Geun’s wife truly loves her husband...

1919 Yoo Kwan Soon (2019)

1919 Yoo Kwan Soon

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A film that explores the lives of female independence activists who fought against the Japanese Occupation in the North and South of Korea including heroines like the titular Yoo Kwan...

Evergreen Tree (1961)

Evergreen Tree

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Two college grads go to the country to modernize a small, rustic community. The woman establishes a school and the man organizes a youth hall. However, their activities arouse the...

That Day: Korean Independence (2016)

That Day: Korean Independence

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The reason Korea is able to be a part of the world’s economic power is because of the independence fighters who gave up their lives to reclaim the country that...

Yu Gwan Sun (1959)

Yoo Kwan Soon

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This film is about of the life of the young patriotic martyr Yoo Kwan Soon, who fought for the liberation of her country during the Independence Movement in 1919. As...

Whale Star: The Gyeongseong Mermaid

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A Korean period drama romance webtoon set in the background of the anti-Japanese movement of independence activists during the Japanese colonial period. Joseon under Japanese colonial rule in 1926. Heo...

Borderliners (2021)

Borderliners

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A true story-based period story about a young man Jeong Yool Seong, who showed talent for music from a young age against the backdrop of Japanese colonial era, leaving his...