However, upon winning the Medal, the younger brother Jin-seok Lee ( Bin Won) refuses to return home. The older brother Jin-tae Lee ( Dong-gun Jang) volunteers for all of the dangerous missions he can get, committed to win the Korean equivalent of the Medal of Honor (a loophole in Korean Military rules allowed a winner of such a medal to send his siblings home). Two brothers are tricked into 'enlisting' by boarding the wrong railroad car and are not allowed to return home to take care of their family. The story, told in retrospective from a Korean War veteran, follows the experiences of two brothers who survived World War II and the waning years of the Japanese occupation of Korea, only to be plunged into the madness and chaos of the Korean War (1950-1953). ![]() In Asian cinema, this title was widely seen as South Korea's own Saving Private Ryan reflecting the pain and anguish of the Korean people, but also showcasing epic Korean War battle sequences, bringing attention to what has long been deemed "The Forgotten War" outside of the Korean Peninsula. ![]() It was a bestseller in Korea and a moderate performer overseas, becoming one of the highest-selling South Korean films of all time. ![]() ![]() Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (also known under the British title Brotherhood) is a 2004 epic Korean War film, directed by South Korean director Je-gyu Kang. Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (2004)
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