The Age of Shadows ’ Trailer

 

A few years ago, South Korean filmmaker Kim Jee-woon‘s sojourn in Hollywood came to an abrupt end when The Last Stand was a box office bomb. Here’s a filmmaker who has always been at his best when he’s allowed to go totally for broke. He wasn’t made to juggle aging action stars and studio notes.


Kim has returned to his homeland and has a new movie arriving this year, The Age of Shadows looks like one of 2016’s more exciting movies, an espionage story that looks genuinely fresh and tense. The Age of Shadows is a historical thriller set during the Japanese occupation of Korea in the 1920s and follows Korean resistance fighters as they battle occupying forces through assassination and subterfuge but audiences who aren’t familiar with the history of the region may need a little helping hand.