Infiltrate and deceive.
The Age of Shadows
74Standing
30th of 194 in Korean Cinema
- Out-grossed 88% of Korean Cinema releases with reported figures ($53M).
- Returned 5.5× its budget, against an industry median of 2.4×.
- Momentum in the 70th percentile.
- Audience rating 7.2 from 387 votes, the 54th percentile.
- Cost
- $10M
- Took
- $53M
Blockbuster5.5× its cost
Against a Korean Cinema median of 2.4×, so this one returned 2.3 times what a typical release there does.
The money says blockbuster. What do you say?
The picture
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.
- Released
- 7 September 2016
- Runtime
- 2h 20m
- Language
- Korean
- Industry
- Korean Cinema
Top billedAll 23 credits
- Song Kang-hoLee Jung-chool
- Gong YooKim Woo-jin
- Han Ji-minYun Gye-soon
- Shingo TsurumiHigashi
- Um Tae-gooHashimoto
- Shin Sung-rokJo Hwe-ryung
Made by
- Director
- Kim Jee-woon
- Writer
- Park Jong-dae, Lee Ji-min
- Original Music Composer
- Mowg
- Director of Photography
- Kim Ji-yong
- Producer
- Choi Jeong-hwa, Jay Choi, Kim Jee-woon
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