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Directed by | Cheon Sung-il |
Produced by | Gang Min-gyu |
Written by | Cheon Sung-il |
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Music by | Choi Seung-hyun |
Cinematography | Lee Jae-hyeok |
Edited by | Kim Chang-ju |
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Harimao Pictures
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Distributed by | Lotte Entertainment |
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Running time
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111 minutes |
Country | South Korea |
Budget | US$6.7 million |
Box office | US$4.1 million |
The Long Way Home (Hangul: 서부전선; RR: Seobu Jeonseon; lit. "Western Front") is a 2015 South Korean film written and directed by Cheon Sung-il, about the friendship between a South Korean and a North Korean soldier during the Korean War.
Nam-bok, a middle-aged South Korean farmer is conscripted and assigned a mission to deliver a classified military document that may decide the fate of the war. After losing it while under attack from the enemy, he then faces a teenage North Korean soldier named Yeong-gwang who happens to acquire the secret document on his way to the North.