When the Korean War ends in 1953, the country left with nothing but desperation. This film is about that period when the gangs ruled the urban Korea. It is about two orphaned boys, who lives in a relief camp where everyone suffers from hunger, inhumane treatment and unbearable work conditions. But these two have a dream of a better tomorrow. One of them has wits and brains and another is a tough street fighter. Together they scheme to collect rice from the neighborhood and to sell it in the coming winter season. They recruit other street boys in their business. But when they start to take business away from the local gangsters, their fight for survival turns into a war.
Nice film but not great one. Understated story and good performance by the actors.
Korea has made so many good films about their war.... i wonder why India never made a realistic good movie on any of our wars. Films like Boarder and LOC are terrible.
One of such themes is “Partition”. We can count Hindi films on Indian partition with fingers. It was such major national tragedy, even then for a long time the Indian film industry seldom addressed it. After 1990s some films were made on the theme like 1942 earth, train to Pakistan etc., but they were not mainstream films. Why mainstream film makers neglected this theme????
[Garam Hawa and Dharam Putra are the exceptional films on partition. I recommend you to watch both these films]
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