On Sept. 15, 1950 the beleaguered people of what would
become the Republic of Korea (better known to the West as simply South Korea)
saw the hope of freedom return to their land when ROK (Republic of Korea) and
United States forces launched a surprise counter-attack at Inchon. The code name for this undertaking was
“Operation Chromite.”
On Jan. 24, CJ Entertainment will be releasing DVD and
Blu-ray editions of South Korean-born filmmaker John H. Lee’s (aka: Jae-han Lee)
film of the same name, Operation Chromite.
The film had a late summer theatrical run domestically,
which yields an ARR of 172 days.
Domestic ticket sales (in its limited major metro theatrical break) were
right at $1 million.
North Korea’s Russian-backed invasion of the south in June
of 1950 had quickly taken Seoul and pushed ROK and US forces all the way to
Pusan (aka: the Pusan Pocket; aka: Busan Pocket) on the southern tip of the
peninsula. All seemed hopeless.
Lee’s Operation Chromite details General
Douglas MacArthur’s (played by Liam Neeson) daring plan to retake the port city
of Incheon, the gateway to Seoul, through the eyes of an elite ROK counterinsurgency
unit headed by Lt. Jang Hak-soo (Jung-jae Lee — New World, Typhoon, Assassination,
etc.).
The harbor at Incheon is known for it’s wide range of tides
(high and low), which means that MacArthur’s plan to land forces and cutoff the
North Korean army in the south has to be timed perfectly. But there’s another factor, the mines laid
by DPK Navy in the harbor … this is Lt. Jang Hak-soo’s mission, find out their
location at all costs. The freedom of
South Korean depends on it!
Operation Chromite is not so much a war story, but an
edge-of-your-seat spy-on-spy thriller as Hak-soo’s eight-man force must
complete their mission — they are expendable — if their country is to regain it’s
freedom. Basically, there is no
tomorrow … succeed against impossible odds or die.
Operation Chromite is presented in Korean (with English
dialogue for American forces) with optional English subtitles.
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