My way (2011) by Sungjin in

Title/Year: My Way (2011)
Director/Birth Country/Year Born: Kang Je-gyu, 1962, South Korea
Budget: $30 Million
Gross: $67330 in U.S. 22screens were opened. Gross from other countries were not estimated.
Synopsis:   Jun-shik, who works for Tatsuo’s grandfather’s farm while Korea is colonized by Japan but he has a dream to participate in Tokyo Olympics as a marathon runner. Tatsuo also aims to become a marathon runner, so the two are in rivalry. But the war breaks out.
Jun-shik and other Koreans were forced to join the Japanese millitary. Tatsuo became the head of defense in Jun-shik’s unit and he devises a scheme but fails. Jun-shik and Tatsuo are held captive by the Soviets. They run away but soon are captured by Germans and forced to separate. In 1944, they meet again at the shores of Normandy.
Narrative and Visual Keywords:Korea Japan, Russia, Germany, Hero, Pride, war, D-day, Normandy.
Characterization/ Dialogue:
Camera/lighting/editing technique:has distintive sephia tone of color profile throughout the movie.
Political/ Social Commentary: This was very special movie in asian culture. Many asian countries have grudge against Japanese imperialism during WWII. It is very sensitive subject to touch on movie, since people who lived through that timeline is still living.
Historical Relevance/ Recognition: Story was based on true story. name of characters were changed, and the ending was changed a bit.
Notable Collaboration: One photo inspired director to make this movie.

The name of the soldier in this photo is Kyoungjong Yang who was born in Shin Euijoo, Northwestern Korea on March 3, 1920. He was conscripted to the Kwantung army in 1938 and captured by the Soviets in Nomonhan and captured again by Germans in Ukraine in the summer of 1943, maybe in the battle of Kharkov, and captured finally by Americans in Utah beach, Normandy on June 6, 1944.
 He was freed from a POW camp in Britain on May, 1945 and moved and settled in America in 1947. He lived near the Northwestern Univ. in Illinois until he died on April 7, 1992. He lived as an ordinary US citizen without telling his unbelievable life story even to his two sons and one daughter.
 His story was revealed by an article of 'Weekly Korea' on Dec. 6th, 2002, which became a big topic in the Korean society here at the time.

Random fact: When people were rehersing for the battle scene, there were Korean, Japanese, Russian, Chinese, German and American people working together. Director mentioned on the interview once, that there were more translators than antors and actresses on the set most of the time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Way_(2011_film)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1606384/

Reaction Questions.
1. Are they any evident elements of an evolving group integration?It does. Jun-shik goes through Series of battle through countries to countries and build friedship with his enemy Tastuo.

2. Are there any scenes where self-sacrifice is apparent?Ending.  Junshik gives his dog-tag to Tatsuo to save his life.

3.  Answer TWO of the following question on analyzing characterization:

Identify the central (most important) character or characters. Which characters are static and which ones are developing? Which characters are flat and which ones are round?
Jun-shik's character was already developed but charater of Tatsuo gets to build up through the story.

What facets of the central character’s personality are revealed by what he chooses or rejects?Jun-shik escapes from Japanese camp. in the process he finds out Soviet Tanks were on move to attack Japanese camp. He goes back to warn Japanese millitary when he find out Soviet Tanks were on move.