Welcome to Dongmakgol
| Welcome to Dongmakgol | |
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Film poster
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| Hangul | |
| Revised Romanization | Welkeom tu dongmakgol |
| McCune–Reischauer | Werk‘ŏm t‘u dongmakgol |
| Directed by | Park Kwang-hyun |
| Produced by |
Jang Jin Lee Eun-ha Ji Sang-yong |
| Written by |
Jang Jin Park Kwang-hyun Kim Joong |
| Starring |
Jung Jae-young Shin Ha-kyun Kang Hye-jung Im Ha-ryong Seo Jae-kyung Ryu Deok-hwan Steve Taschler |
| Music by | Joe Hisaishi |
| Cinematography | Choi Sang-ho |
| Edited by | Steve M. Choe |
| Distributed by |
Showbox (South Korea) Subway Cinema (USA) |
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Release date
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Running time
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133 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean |
| Budget | US$8 million |
| Box office | US$31,787,130 |
Welcome to Dongmakgol (Hangul: 웰컴 투 동막골; RR: Welkeom tu dongmakgol) is a 2005 South Korean film. Based on the same-titled long-running stage play by filmmaker/playwright Jang Jin,Park Kwang-hyun's debut film was a commercial and critical success.
The story is set in Korea during the Korean War in 1950. Soldiers from both the North and South, as well as an American pilot, find themselves in a secluded village, its residents largely unaware of the outside world, including the war.
It was South Korea's official entry for the foreign language film category of the Academy Awards in 2005, and at the time the fourth highest grossing South Korean film of all time (as of January 2015 it ranked as twentieth).
The film was released in the United Kingdom under the alternate title Battle Ground 625.
A U.S. Navy pilot, Neil Smith (Steve Taschler), is caught in a mysterious storm of butterflies and crash-lands his plane whilst flying over a remote part of Korea. He is found by local villagers who nurse him back to health. In the small village of Dongmakgol, time appears to stand still. They have no knowledge of modern technology, such as firearms, explosives, motor vehicles and aircraft. All villagers are unaware of the massive conflict within Korea.
Meanwhile, not far from the village, a platoon of North Korean and South Korean soldiers have an encounter, and the ensuing gunfight leaves most of the North Koreans dead. The surviving soldiers from the North manage to escape through a mountain passage. The North Korean soldiers, Rhee Soo-hwa (Jung Jae-young), Jang Young-hee (Im Ha-ryong), and Seo Taek-gi (Ryu Deok-hwan) are found by an odd girl Yeo-il (Kang Hye-jung) who acts crazy. She leads them to the village, where to their astonishment, they find two South Korean soldiers Pyo Hyun-chul (Shin Ha-kyun) and Moon Sang-sang (Seo Jae-kyung). The South Korean soldiers, who have both deserted their units, had also been led to the village which is housing the injured U.S. Navy pilot, Smith, by a different villager.
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