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US Teaser Trailer & Poster: "The The Battleship Island"

"The Battleship Island", a war film based on the Japanese occupation of Korea in 1944 and 400 or more Koreans that were conscripted into slave labor will be released in the U.S. by CJ Entertainment this summer.

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DIRECTOR
Ryoo Seung-wan ("Veteran", "The Berlin File", "The Unjust", "The City of Violence")
 
CAST        
Hwang Jung-min ("Asura: The City of Madness", "The Wailing", "The Himalayas", "Veteran", "Ode to My Father")
So Ji-sub ("Always", "Sophie's Revenge")
Song Joong-ki ("Descendants of the Sun", "A Werewolf Boy")
Lee Jung-hyun ("Alice In Earnestland", "The Admiral: Roaring Currents")
 
SYNOPSIS
Under the colonial rule of Japan, 400 or so Koreans who are conscripted into slave labor on 'The The Battleship Island', attempt to escape for life.
 
1944, during the Japanese occupation of Korea, conscripted civilians head out to the Hashima island. Nicknamed 'The The Battleship Island' after its resemblance to a war vessel, some are lured by false promises of high wages. LEE, a bandmaster of a jazz bigband and his only daughter, CHOI, a thug, and Mallyeon are among the workers. But upon arrival, they found that the island turns out to be an isolated hell where the workers are forced into slave labor.
 
As the Pacific War nears its end, PARK, a Korean independence activist assigned on a mission to rescue a Korea's spiritual leader from the island. As the U.S. launches massive counterattack on Japan, the Japanese decided to blow up the island in order to bury the truth about their awful treatment of the Korean slave labors. PARK discovers the plan, and conspires with LEE and others for mass escape of all 400 Koreans.

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