Last battle of the Korean War.
The Front Line
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119th of 194 in Korean Cinema
- Out-grossed 54% of Korean Cinema releases with reported figures ($16M).
- Returned 1.6× its budget, against an industry median of 2.4×.
- Momentum in the 21st percentile.
- Audience rating 7.2 from 211 votes, the 52nd percentile.
- Cost
- $10M
- Took
- $16M
Hit1.6× its cost
Against a Korean Cinema median of 2.4×, so this one returned 0.7 times what a typical release there does.
The money says hit. What do you say?
The picture
In 1951 ceasefire is declared, but two remaining armies fought their final battle on the front line Towards the end of the Korean War, a South Korean battalion is fiercely battling over a hill on the front line border against the North in order to capture a strategic point that would determine the new border between two nations. The ownership of this small patch of land would swap multiple times each day. Kang is dispatched to the front line in order to investigate the tacit case that’s been happening there.
- Released
- 20 July 2011
- Runtime
- 2h 13m
- Language
- Korean
- Industry
- Korean Cinema
Top billedAll 22 credits
- Shin Ha-kyunKang Eun-pyo
- Go SooKim Soo-hyeok
- Lee Je-hoonShin Il-young
- Ryu Seung-suOh Gi-yeong
- Ko Chang-seokYang Hyo-sam
- David LeeNam Seong-sik
Made by
- Director
- Jang Hoon
- Screenplay
- Sang-yeon Park
- Original Music Composer
- Dalpalan, Jang Young-gyu
- Director of Photography
- Kim Woo-hyung
- Producer
- Lee Woo-jeong, Kim Hyeon-cheol
Filed under
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