Operation Chromite () or Battle for Incheon: Operation Chromite in US, is a 2016 South Korean spy war film co-written and directed by John H. Lee. It is a fiction based on a true story of by ROK Navy Intelligence Unit and by US Military Intelligence Unit (including KLO and CIA), depicts espionage which took charge for preparatory stage of Operation Chromite (Incheon Landing Operation, Battle of Inchon) in Korean War.영화'인천상륙작전'실재 주인공에게 듣다
Produced by , presented by Finecut. In South Korea, released 27 July 2016, which the date concluded the armistice agreement of Korean War, distributed by CJ Entertainment.
Plot In 1950, just a few months after North Korean forces have overrun most of South Korea, an American-led UN coalition is deployed to Korea to aid the struggling South Koreans. General Douglas MacArthur devises a secret plan to attack behind enemy lines at the port city of Incheon. The risky strategy is opposed by leaders of the other military branches, forcing MacArthur to devise a clandestine operation to gather essential information from within occupied Incheon by coordinating a weeklong South Korean intelligence operation known as "X-ray".
The linchpin of this top-secret incursion, Captain Jang Hak-Soo of the ROK Navy Intelligence Unit (a former Korean People's Army officer who defected to South Korea after seeing his father executed in front of him by his fellow communist officers), and seven members of the X-Ray unit disguise themselves as a Korean People's Army inspection unit and infiltrate the North Korean command center in Incheon, coordinated by the Soviet-trained commander Lim Gye-Jin, a protégé of Kim Il Sung. Their prime objective is to determine the placement of North Korean defenses (such as mines and artillery) and the tactical characteristics of the Incheon harbor (notorious for swift currents and major tidal surges), and secure a lighthouse crucial to the landing's success.
Immediately suspicious of Jang's "inspection mission", Lim attempts to impede his comrade's investigation and orders his staff to monitor the new arrivals closely. The U.S. command relays MacArthur's orders to obtain navigation charts showing naval mine placements in the harbor and prepare a strategy to assist the coalition forces with landing an amphibious assault in a narrow two-hour window between tides. When contacts within the South Korean military intelligence unit known as KLO (Korea Liaison Office, predecessor to present-day South Korean Headquarters of Intelligence Detachment, or HID) warn Jang that time is running out to successfully complete the mission, he pushes his group to extremes. Meanwhile, in Tokyo, MacArthur prepares Operation Chromite, an invasion force of 75,000 UN troops and over 200 warships, to imminently depart for the Korean Peninsula.
Cast
Lee Jung-jae as Jang Hak-soo Lee Beom-soo as Lim Gye-jin Liam Neeson as General Douglas MacArthur Jin Se-yeon as Han Chae-seon Jung Joon-ho as Seo Jin-chul Kim Byeong-ok as Choi Suk-joong Park Chul-min as Nam Ki-sung Jon Gries as Hoyt Vandenberg Gil Geum-sung as Chun Dal-joong Shin Soo-hang as Kang Bong-po Kim Hee-jin as Ryu Jang-choon Jung Min-ji as Ok Gil-ryun Naya as Yeo Ga-soo Lee Choong-goo as Hwa-gyoon Sung Hyuk as Song Sang-deuk Kim Ki-bum as Kwak Tae-duk Go Yoon as commando Jang Joon-hak as Yang Pan-dong Sean Richard Dulake as Lt. Col. Edward L. Rowny Justin Rupple as Alexander Haig Jin Yong-ok as Jo In-gook Park Jung-won as Ri Kyung-shik Yang Bum as Ham Kwang-suk Lee Hae-joon as Ji Jin-pyo Josie Bissett as Jean MacArthur Yoon Suk-jin as Do Hong-gyoo Kim Joong-hee as Joo Hyun-pil Yun Da-yeong as Gye Eun-sook Kim Se-jung as Uhm Gi-soon Park Sung-woong as Park Nam-chul (cameo) Kim Sun-a as Kim Hwa-young (cameo) Kim Young-ae as Na Jung-nim (cameo) Choo Sung-hoon as Baek San (cameo) Lee Won-jong as Kim Il Sung (cameo) Jung Kyung-soon as Jung Sun-sil (cameo)
English dubbing Song Sang-deuk – Sean Chiplock Darrel Delfin
Reception The film was number-one on its opening at the South Korean box office, grossing . with around seven million tickets sold . It grossed worldwide.
In the United Kingdom, it was 2017's best-selling foreign language film on home video, above Your Name in second place.
On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 40% based on 20 reviews, with an average rating of 5/10. At Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 50 out of 100, based on 8 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
Extended cut A South Korean release of the Blu-Ray version put the extended cut at 141 minutes.
Sequel
The Battle of Jangsari 9.15, a sequel to the film Chromite, was released in 2019, the second part of a trilogy. The film covers a later small attack at Jangsari, intended to draw North Korean attention from Inchon.
Accolades AwardCategoryRecipientResultCitation(s)53rd Grand Bell AwardsBest New Actor Kim Hee-jin "Winners Of The 53rd Grand Bell Awards Revealed" . soompi.comBest Costume DesignOh Sang-jinBest MusicLee Dong-junBest Sound RecordingBest Visual EffectMoon Byung-yong, Cho E-suckPopularity Award Lee Beom-soo New Rising Star Award Kim Hee-jin (Tied with Choi Ri of Spirits' Homecoming)24th Korean Culture and Entertainment AwardsWomen's Best Actor AwardJin Se yeon
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