Movie
The Age of Shadows
Overview
Set in the late 1920s, The Age of Shadows follows the cat-and-mouse game that unfolds between a group of resistance fighters trying to bring in explosives from Shanghai to destroy key Japanese facilities in Seoul, and Japanese agents trying to stop them.
Details
- Release date
- 2016-09-07
- Runtime
- 140 min
- Genres
- Action, Thriller, History
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Harbin, Warner Bros. Korea, Dark Circle Pictures
- Country
- South Korea
- Original language
- KO
Cast
- Song Kang-ho as Lee Jung-chool
- Gong Yoo as Kim Woo-jin
- Han Ji-min as Yun Gye-soon
- Shingo Tsurumi as Higashi
- Um Tae-goo as Hashimoto
- Shin Sung-rok as Jo Hwe-ryung
- Lee Byung-hun as Jung Chae-san
- Park Hee-soon as Kim Jang-ok
- Heo Sung-tae as Ha Il-soo
- Kim Dong-young as Heo Chul-joo
- Go Joon as Shim Sang-do
- Seo Young-joo as Joo Dong-sung
Crew
- Kim Jee-woon - Director
- Lee Ji-min - Writer
- Park Jong-dae - Writer
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