"What's Harder than Fighting Imperialism? Try Finding Lost Love."
During the Japanese occupation, a Korean modern boy, who wants to fit in with the Japanese, falls in love with a Korean freedom fighter.
Social & External
The people behind it
Park Hae-il
Lee Hae-myung
Kim Hye-soo
Cho Nan-sil
Kim Nam-gil
Hidaka Shinsuke
Kim Joon-bae
Baek Sang-heo
Kim Young-jae
Ogai
Shin Gu
Hae-myung's Father
Ju Seok-tae
Detective in a beret
Lim Seo-yeon
Yoko Ishida
Hong Seung-jin
Cheol-kwon
Hwang Sang-kyung
Mr. Lee
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