Musa (film)
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| Hangul | |
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| Revised Romanization | Musa |
| McCune–Reischauer | Musa |
| Directed by | Kim Sung-su |
| Produced by | Cha Seung-jae Shang Xia |
| Written by | Kim Sung-su |
| Starring |
Jung Woo-sung Ahn Sung-ki Joo Jin-mo Zhang Ziyi |
| Music by | Shirō Sagisu |
| Cinematography | Kim Hyung-koo |
| Edited by | Kim Hyeon |
| Distributed by | CJ Entertainment |
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155 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean Mandarin |
| Budget | US$8 million |
Musa (Hangul: 무사; Hanja: 武士; RR: Musa; lit. "Warrior"), released as both The Warrior and The Ultimate Warrior in English-speaking countries, is a 2001 South Korean epic film directed by Kim Sung-su, starring Jung Woo-sung, Ahn Sung-ki, Joo Jin-mo and Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi. The semi-historical story follows the adventures of a Korean peace delegation as they try to get back to Korea through the inhospitable deserts of northern China.
The film is regarded as being one of the biggest motion pictures in the history of South Korean cinema. At the time of its production its budget was the largest ever for a Korean film. It features a high degree of historical accuracy in period costumery, props, settings, and most unusually, language; that is, everyone speaks in their native tongues or through an interpreter conversant in a lingua franca. The film was the 8th highest grossing film of 2001 with over two million tickets sold.
In 1375, a small diplomatic mission from the Korean kingdom Goryeo travels to Ming China to meet the Hongwu Emperor, but they are arrested in retaliation for the death of a Chinese diplomat in Goryeo. They are put in chains and taken across a desert. However, Mongol raiders suddenly show up and kill the Chinese soldiers transporting them, while killing some Koreans in the process. The Mongols ride off, leaving the rest of the Koreans to die of hunger or thirst.
The head of the Korean soldiers in the group, General Choi-Jung, takes command because the two diplomats are dead. Later, they discover that the Mongols have kidnapped the Hongwu Emperor's daughter so they ambush the Mongol convoy and rescue the princess. Yeo-sol, a former slave of one of the diplomats, defeats the Mongol general Rambulwha in single combat, but allows the latter to live and escape.
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