The True Story of Kim Du-han

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The True Story of Kim Du-han

1974

1h 48m

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The son of a Chosun Dynasty general, Kim Du-han finds himself orphaned when the dynasty ends and the Japanese colonize Korea in the early 1900's. He sets out to build a resistance army in this historical drama.

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