| Typhoon | |
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 Typhoon movie poster |
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| Directed by | Kwak Kyung-taek |
| Produced by | Yang Joong-kyung Park Seong-keun |
| Written by | Kwak Kyung-taek |
| Starring | Jang Dong-gun Lee Jung-jae Lee Mi-yeon |
| Music by | Kim Hyung-suk |
| Distributed by | CJ Entertainment DreamWorks/Go Fish Pictures |
| Release date(s) | December, 2005 (South Korea) April 27 2007 (UK) |
| Running time | 125 min. |
| Language | Korean |
| Budget | $15,000,000 US |
| IMDb profile | |
Typhoon (태풍 Taepung) is a 2005 South Korean action film directed by Kwak Kyung-taek and starring Jang Dong-gun, Lee Jung-jae and Lee Mi-yeon.
Plot
A US military ship carrying operations technology for a military satellite is hijacked by Sin (Jang Dong Gun) and his crew. Having stolen the technology, Sin intends to release and explode a fleet of helium balloons loaded with nuclear devices over the Korean peninsula. Sejong (Lee Jung Jae), is secretly sent by the South Korean government to find and apprehend Sin before his genocidal plan is carried out. In order to do that, Sejong discovers that Sin has a sister living in Russia. When he finds her, he discovers that when Sin and his sister were young, their family tried to escape to South Korea as they wanted a better life. but unknown to them, the person who was suppose to ship them to China to enter South Korea had betrayed them to the police. Knowing that his family and the others who are trying to escape are going to be killed, Sin's father grabs the lieutenant in charge and urges everyone to flee. amongst the chaos, Sin, his sister and their mother managed to escape but unfortunately they were caught up with the soldiers. In a bid to save her children, their mother got shot. Before she draws her last breath, she urges them to forget about her and run to escape. Sin and his sister hide among the bushes and manages to escape. They traveled to China on foot and in order to keep her and her brother from starving, his sister went to steal food from peoples' home. But when she was stealing food from a farmer's house, she got caught by the farmer himself. When he saw that she was a girl, he went and rape her and he sent her away with some buns. Sin's sister wiped away her tears as she walks to the place where her brother was hiding and gives him all the buns to eat himself even though she was starving. When her brother offers her one, she lied that she had eaten already. She then walked out of the place under the guise of exploring the place to look for tree bark to eat. As she munches on the tree bark, she sings a song about how she misses her family and home. But a cruel twist of fate separates them when they were at a train station. Sejong begins to sympathize with Sin and his sister. He even says, in a letter to his mother, that he would like to be friend with Sin in another world.
External links
- Typhoon at the Internet Movie Database
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