D-War
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| Directed by | Shim Hyung-rae |
| Produced by | James B. Kang |
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| Music by | Steve Jablonsky |
| Cinematography | Hubert Taczanowski |
| Edited by | Timothy Alverson |
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| Budget | $35 million |
| Box office | $99.1 million |
D-War (Korean: 디워, released in North America as Dragon Wars: D-War), is a 2007 South Korean-American fantasy action-adventure film written and directed by Shim Hyung-rae, and starring Jason Behr, Amanda Brooks, Robert Forster, and Elizabeth Peña.
As of its release, it is the highest-budgeted Korean film of all time. The film was a box office success, grossing almost $100 million worldwide, but received generally negative reviews from critics.
The story follows the adventures of Ethan Kendrick (Jason Behr), charged in his childhood by the enigmatic Jack (Robert Forster) to protect the Yuh Yi Joo, an individual born able to change an Imoogi into a Celestial Dragon. To this end, Jack gives Ethan a medallion formerly belonging to Haram and reveals that the Yuh Yi Joo is Sarah Daniels (Amanda Brooks), whom Ethan will find in Los Angeles.
15 years after this revelation, a corrupt Imoogi identified as "Buraki" invades the city, bent on capturing Sarah; whereupon Ethan, now a television news anchor, rescues her, conveys the knowledge of her purpose, and attempts to save her from Buraki. During the resulting chase, Buraki's "Atrox Army" enters the city and engages the United States Army, the United States Air Force, and the Los Angeles Police Department in battle. Here, the Atrox Army is shown to consist of black-armored, humanoid knight warriors; theropod-like cavalry called "Shaconnes"; small, winged Western dragons called "Bulcos"; and immense, slow-moving reptiles carrying rocket-launchers on their backs, identified in the dialogue as "Dawdlers". Despite losses, this army overwhelms the human forces, while Ethan and Sarah escape. They are subsequently captured by the Bulcos and taken to a menacing fortress in the midst of a darkened desert landscape. There, Ethan's medallion destroys the Atrox Army; but Buraki attempts to consume Sarah, whereupon he is attacked by the Good Imoogi. The two Imoogi, good and evil, engage each other in a duel that Buraki appears to win after seemingly snapping the Good Imoogi's neck. Having won the fight, Buraki again approaches Sarah; but having offered herself to him, she instead gives her power to the Good Imoogi who had just revived, who thereupon becomes the Celestial Dragon, continuing the duel until it finally destroys Buraki.
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