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The idea for My Way was birthed from a World War II photo.

Kim jun shik biography of william hill While based on the story of Yang Kyoungjong, the main character is named Kim Jun-shik, who has a passion for running. This trait carries over into adulthood and is what eventually gets Jun-shik drafted into the Imperial Japanese Army. While fighting overseas, the soldier is taken as a Soviet prisoner of war (POW). As the Red Army’s numbers.

It shows a small asian man clad in a German army uniform. It was reported that the man survived a 12, km journey across the battlefields before ending up in France. He was a Korean.

My Way, South Korea’s World War II movie revolves around frenemies Kim Jun-shik (Jang Dong-gun) and Hasegawa Tatsuo (Joe Odagiri).

As soldiers, the pair finds themselves donning many different military uniforms while fighting in the war.

FRENEMIES & A LADY: (l-r) Jang Dong-gun, Fan Bing Bing & Joe Odagiri

They went from fighting for Japan to the Soviet Union, Germany and eventually France.

My Way‘s Kim Jun-shik is based on a Korean man called Yang Kyoungjong. Very little is known about him prior to the Second World War, meaning that, essentially, everything included in the film up until that point is a work of fiction.

The film is said to be “loosely” based on a true story of a Korean man who survived a 12, km journey across the battlefields; ending in France.

In the movie’s production notes, it is reported that the film is inspired by a photograph of an East Asian man found among German prisoners after the Allied’s victory at Normandy.

We think it is the picture below.

Pic source: ?Asian-Wehrmacht-Nazi

The story behind the photograph moved and shocked My Way’s director Kang Je-kyu after it was highlighted in a TV documentary in South Korea.

During the Busan International Film Festival, Kang said: “I received the original scenario four years ago.

I then watched a three-episode SBS documentary on the same subject which made me unable to sleep. So, roughly two and a half years ago, I made the decision to direct the movie myself.”

EXPRESSIVE: Director Kang Je-kyu (left) and his My Way cast talk about the movie

The film&#;s budget is estimated at a whopping RMmil and it took Kang three years of writing and eight months of pre-production before shooting began in Oct

The cast is toplined by none other than Jang Dong-gun (Korea) and Joe Odagiri (Japan) with Fan Bing Bing (China) portraying a smaller role.

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Jang reunites with Kang after the pair&#;s extremely successful run at the box office with Taegukgi: Brotherhood of War ().

In , Kim Jun-shik (Shin Sang-yeob) works alongside his father (Chun Ho-jin) and sister Eun-soo (Lee Yeon-hee) on the farm of the Hasegawa family (Shiro Sano, Kumi Nakamura) in Gyeong-seong (present-day Seoul), Japanese-occupied Korea. Jun-shik and Tatsuo Hasegawa (Sung Yu-bin) are interested in running.

The chance to work with Kang again sealed Jang&#;s decision to film another war movie.

“After Taegukgi I thought I couldn’t do another war movie. What else could be said about war?&#; said Jang. &#;When I learned Kang Je-kyu would direct the movie then my decision came easily.&#;

My Way challenged Jang to express himself in Japanese.

&#;Joe Odagiri helped me a lot,&#; said the year-old about scenes with the Japanese actor.

Biography of william shakespeare My Way, South Korea’s World War II movie revolves around frenemies Kim Jun-shik (Jang Dong-gun) and Hasegawa Tatsuo (Joe Odagiri). As soldiers, the pair finds themselves donning many different military uniforms while fighting in the war.

&#;Odagiri is an actor who thinks deeply and has firm thoughts as an actor… so we are on the same wavelength.&#;

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Meanwhile, Odagiri also thinks highly of his South Korean co-star. &#;While acting together I could tell he was also considerate.

I felt we understood each other well.

&#;If I were a woman I would have a crush on him,&#; said the 36 year old.

Opera star, Andrea Bocelli, lends his voice to the film’s soundtrack, To Find My Way. Composed by Lee Dong-jun, the song is played during the credit roll.

Read K-popped!&#;s My Way review here.

The film will be playing in Malaysian cinemas on April

MY WAY IN SOUTH KOREA: Actor Kim In-kwon (left), who portrays Lee Jong-dae, with the main cast of the movie. Check out Joe Odagiri&#;s boots&#;again!