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R-Point
Sign in to saveR-Point () is a 2004 South Korean psychological horror war film written and directed by Kong Su-chang. Set in Vietnam in 1972, during the Vietnam War, it stars Kam Woo-sung and Son Byong-ho as members of the South Korean Army in Vietnam. Most of the movie was shot in Cambodia. Bokor Hill Station plays a prominent part of the movie, in this case doubling as a French colonial plantation. In 2011, Palisades Tartan re-released this film on DVD under the title Ghosts of War.
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6.6On 07 January 1972, the South Korean base in Nha-Trang, Vietnam, receives a radio transmission from a missing platoon presumed dead.
Cast
- Kam Woo-sung as Lieutenant Choi Tae-in
- Son Byung-ho as Sergeant Jin Chang-rok
- Park Won-sang as Sergeant Cook
- Oh Tae-kyung as Sergeant Jang Young-soo
- Lee Sun-kyun as Sergeant Park
- Son Jin-ho as Sergeant Oh
Themes
- vietnam war
- vietnam
- tombstone
- soldier
- korean army
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Key facts
- Film.name
- R-Point
- Film.image
- R-Point film poster.jpg
- Film.caption
- Theatrical poster
- Film.director
- Kong Su-chang
- Film.producer
- Choi Kang-hyeokChang Yoon-hyun
- Film.writer
- Kong Su-chang
- Film.starring
- Kam Woo-sungSon Byong-hoOh Tae-kyungPark Won-sangLee Sun-kyunAhn Nae-sangKim Byeong-cheolJung Kyung-hoMun Yeong-dong
- Film.music
- Pitch Present's Dalpalan, Bang Jun-seok, Jang Young-gyu, and Lee Byung-hoon
- Film.cinematography
- Seok Hyeong-jing
- Film.editing
- Nam Na-yeong
- Film.distributor
- Cinema Service
- Film.runtime
- 107 minutes
- Film.country
- South Korea
- Film.language
- Korean
- Film.gross
- $6.7 million
- Korean film name/auto.hangul
- ^알 포인트
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 106
- FilmAffinity ID
- 659967
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- publication date
- 2004-01-01
- title
- 알포인트
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R-Point () is a 2004 South Korean psychological horror war film written and directed by Kong Su-chang. Set in Vietnam in 1972, during the Vietnam War, it stars Kam Woo-sung and Son Byong-ho as members of the South Korean Army in Vietnam. Most of the movie was shot in Cambodia. Bokor Hill Station plays a prominent part of the movie, in this case doubling as a French colonial plantation. In 2011, Palisades Tartan re-released this film on DVD under the title Ghosts of War.
==Plot== In January 1972, at a South Korean Army base in Nha Trang, South Vietnam, a missing platoon has sent a radio transmission from R-Point, a strategic island near Saigon. Lieutenant Choi receives orders to lead a squad, including Sergeant Jin Chang-rok, on a mission to extract the missing soldiers within a week. In return, they will receive an early honorable discharge and a clean record for Choi, who had previously shown insubordination.