2009 Lost Memories

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Movie
German title 2009 Lost Memories
Original title 2009 로스트 메모리즈
Country of production South Korea
original language Korean , Japanese
Publishing year 2002
length 136 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Lee Si-myung
script Lee Si-myung,
Lee Sang-hak
production Kim Yun-young ,
Seo Jun-won
music Dong-jun Lee
camera Hyeon-cheol Park
cut Jay Ishimaru
occupation

2009 Lost Memories ( kor. 2009 로스트 메모리즈 ) is a South Korean feature film from 2002 directed by Lee Si-myung .

action

The film opening credits begin in 1909. Contrary to the real events, the assassination attempt by the Korean An Chung-gun on the Japanese politician Itō Hirobumi in Harbin was unsuccessful, which significantly changes the course of the history of Japanese rule over Korea . The assassination attempt by the Korean independence fighter Yun Bong-gil on high-ranking Japanese fails in 1932. The Japanese Empire allies itself with the United States in World War II . The first atomic bombs were dropped on Berlin and Korea did not regain its independence from Japan after the end of the war, but remained a Japanese colony . The 1988 Summer Olympics will not take place in Seoul , but Nagoya and Japan will be the sole venues for the 2002 World Cup .

The actual plot begins in 2009 in the colony of Korea with a hostage-taking in the Keijō Museum by the Korean terrorist group Hureisenjin , which is fighting against Japanese rule. The hostage-taking is ended bloody by the Japanese Bureau of Investigation (JBI), with the participation of the partners Masayuki Sakamoto and Shōjirō Saigō. Investigator Sakamoto, himself a Korean, comes to the conclusion that the action was not about the hostages, but about an old, crescent-shaped artifact. The stone with the name moon soul comes from the collection of the second governor general of the colony of Korea and is owned by the Inoue Foundation . He determines that in the past there have been repeated attempts by the whoreisenjin to acquire artifacts from the Inoue Foundation . The whoreisenjin ambush the trucks that are supposed to bring the Inoue Foundation artifacts back to Japan. In the resulting shootout between the terrorists and Sakamoto and Saigō, Sakamoto encounters the female leader of the organization Oh Hye-rin.

He will be withdrawn from the case because of Sakamoto's subsequent investigation into the Inoue Foundation . Sakamoto's father was also a police officer, but was executed as a traitor in 1985 for allegedly assisting the Hurisenjin in a failed attack on a cargo ship in Vladivostok . While Sakamoto travels to Harbin to do further research, his mentor Takahashi is murdered in Sakamoto's apartment. Sakamoto is arrested for this, but is able to escape with the help of Saigō.

In the following plot, the former partners Sakamoto and Saigō face each other as enemies. Sakamoto is wounded and goes to a whore-iron hiding place . Saigō receives a visit from the head of the Inoue Foundation . It becomes clear that they live in an alternate world and that the past has been changed by a journey through time . This was made possible by historical artifacts such as a large temple stone. This time travel opportunity was used by the ultra-nationalist Uyoku to send a man named Inoue back in time to prevent the attack on Itō Hirobumi. Inoue became the second governor-general of the colony of Korea and established the Inoue Foundation and continued to influence historical events.

Knowing this, Sakamoto joins the Hurisenjin to restore the actual course of history. They locate the temple stone and activate it with the moon soul , resulting in an exchange of fire with the JBI, in which Oh dies. Sakamoto himself traveled back to Harbin in 1909 in order to thwart the attempt to prevent the attack. He is pursued by Saigō, who has learned that his wife's family was killed in the actual course of history when the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima . Sakamoto still manages to kill Inoue, restore the old timeline and blows up the temple stone. Now the background of Oh Hye-rin becomes clear, the researcher in connection with the temple stone and who followed Inoue on his first journey through time.

The film ends again in 2009, with real history restored, in the Independence Hall of Korea , a memorial to Korean freedom fighters. A boy looks at the photos of the characters and also sees a photo with Sakamoto and Oh laughing together.

backgrounds

2009 Lost Memories was a cooperation between South Korea and Japan in the year when the soccer world championship 2002 took place as a joint project in Japan and South Korea.

Production costs were estimated 7 million US dollars . The film grossed over $ 12 million in South Korean cinemas.

Bok Geo-il , the author of the original novella Bimyeong-eul Chajaseo ( 비명 을 찾아서 ) (1987) refused to be associated with the finished production and successfully sued the filmmakers, so his name had to be removed from the credits.

Reviews

The film received mixed reviews. In a review in Variety , Derek Elley wrote that the film was an action drama about history and nationalism, a would-be Japanese-Korean buddy film wrapped in a kitschy “what if” / scifi drama . In The New York Times , Jeannette Catsoulis praised the beautiful set and the film project as an ambitious example of Korean film. It goes from an action thriller to a science fiction drama unexpectedly without losing sight of humanity under the nationalism shown.

The lexicon of international films is of the opinion that the film is - despite "some lengths and stereotypes" - a "remarkably effective directorial debut". However, the "downright patriotic attitude [...] is dubious".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for 2009 Lost Memories . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2003 (PDF; test number: 94 273 V / DVD).
  2. ↑ IMDb: Box office / business for 2009: Lost Memories , accessed on July 11, 2013 (English).
  3. ↑ Gross profit on boxofficemojo.com, accessed on July 11, 2013 (English).
  4. ↑ 2009 Lost Memories in the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction of August 3, 2012 (English).
  5. ↑ Derek Elley: Review: “2009 - Lost Memories” Variety from July 8, 2002 (English).
  6. ^ Jeannette Catsoulis: Korea That Might Have Been: Seoul as a Large Japanese City . The New York Times, May 20, 2005.
  7. ↑ 2009 Lost Memories. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 1, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used