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The Age of Shadows
Set in the late 1920s, The Age of Shadows follows Korean resistance fighters as they smuggle explosives heading towards Seoul in order to destroy facilities controlled by Japanese forces.
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8 October 1983, South Korea
3 November 1982
November 26, 1986 in Harris County, Texas, USA
17 January 1967, Gim-hae, South Gyeongsang Povince, South Korea
May 02, 2017
A complex film with Je-woon's unexpected vocation of classicism, the film reaches its particular peak of brilliance in the long stretch that takes place inside a train where persecutors and resistant converge. [Full review in Spanish]
March 24, 2017
The action is lengthy but well constructed, particularly a sequence on a wood-panelled steam train, but the torture scenes and occasional severed toes may try some viewers.
September 23, 2016
You'd be hard-pressed to find a more lavishly staged staged chunk of pulp nonsense.
March 24, 2017
At 140 minutes, The Age of Shadows is a film that peaks early and ends late. Still, there is an upside to this ponderousness.
September 22, 2016
The screenwriters, Lee Ji-min and Park Jong-dae, embellish this crafty scenario with no shortage of ingenious complications, effectively doubling the number of double agents at every turn.
September 23, 2016
Kim sometimes loses the rhythm of his spy thriller, but he's such a confident filmmaker-and his leading man such a magnetic presence-that he quickly gets its back.
September 22, 2016
Patriotism and self-interest clash powerfully in "The Age of Shadows," a stylish and morally complex thriller set largely in Japanese-occupied 1920s Seoul.
September 22, 2016
For this director, exposition can't hold a candle to elegantly staged shootouts. And who can blame him. He knows his strengths.
April 01, 2017
It may not be the helmer's finest film, yet it darts nimbly and appealingly between its slickly delivered set-pieces.
December 08, 2016
It's a rich stew of a tale, with Korean resistance fighters, Hungarian revolutionaries, Japanese police officials and double agents. Running at 140 minutes, "The Age of Shadows" is worth every moment.
March 24, 2017
The Age of Shadows is perhaps too long, but there's no doubt that it is a sumptuous, elegantly crafted piece of cinema.
