The Battle: Roar to Victory

After the March First Movement in 1919, the armed struggle of the independence forces became active in the Bongo-dong area. Armed with new weapons, Japan begins an operation to subdue the independence forces, and the independence forces decide to use the topography of Bongo-dong to overcome the unfavorable situation.^[2]

In 1920, when Korea was under Japanese rule, the Korean independence forces' sword-wielding Hwang Hae-cheol (Yoo Hae-jin) and his subordinates such as sniper Byeong-gu (Jo Woo-jin) carried out the operation to deliver funds to the Korean Provisional Government in Shanghai. During the operation Hwang Hae-chul is reunited with Jang-ha (Ryu Jun-yeol), a young squad commander, who has a suicide mission to bait the Japanese forces led by a general (Kazuki Kitamura) and first lieutenant (Hiroyuki Ikeuchi) into Bongo-dong.

• Yoo Hae-jin as Hwang Hae-cheol (Korean: 황해철, Hwang Hae-cheol)
• Ryu Jun-yeol as Yi Jang-ha (Korean: 이장하, I Jang-ha)
• Jo Woo-jin as Byeong-gu (Korean: 병구, Byeong-gu)
• Kazuki Kitamura as Japanese general Yasukawa Jiro (Japanese: 陸軍大将安川次郎, Rikugun-Taishō Yasukawa Jirō)
• Hiroyuki Ikeuchi as Japanese first lieutenant Kusanagi (Japanese: 陸軍中尉草薙, Rikugun-Chūi Kusanagi)
• Kotaro Daigo as Yukio
• Go Min-si as Hwa-ja (Jang-ha's sister)
• Park Ji-hwan as Japanese lieutenant Shigeru Arayoshi (Japanese: 陸軍中尉荒吉茂, Rikugun-Chūi Arayoshi Shigeru)
• Shim So-young as Chinese Shaman
• Sung Yu-bin as Gae Ddong-yi
• Park Hoon as a member of Jang Ha's unit
• Park Hee-soon as captured independence soldier (special appearance)

The film had brought a cumulative total of more than 3 million viewers to Korean theaters according to the film's distributor Showbox.^[3] It premiered in New York on 16 August 2019.^[4]