Government? Sons of bitches... Who made it anyway?
They even killed Kim Ku, and I couldn't die when I should have
Since then, I lived each day hoping it'll be my last
Since that day... that day...
Shanghai
on that day, I was to die
I set fire to Japanese houses whenever I could
It was to avenge my parents' death
And then I got caught
Many arsons and murders occurred in Japanese districts
Today, we are here to execute the principal offenders,
these Chosun people
You should be witnesses to today's execution,
and spread the word
How reckless and foolish
it is to fight against
the Great Japanese Empire
Many arsons and murders
occurred in Japanese districts
Here are the villains...
of political and other sorts...
to be publicly executed
They were anarchists
That was how I met them
Here's where you'll be trained
Look closely
This is Majaal,
who makes the bombs and weapons for us
Hey, don't touch my knife!
That's right. That's the way
Where are you pointing at? You're driving me nuts!
Black looks good on Sang-Gu!
Like a bell boy at the club
Yeah, he's the bell boy
Do you know why we prefer black clothes?
If the socialists are red then anarchists are black
Throughout history we only wore white, a sign of weakness
And we should mourn for our old timers, right?
I wear it 'cause I like black
Wow! Looking good, huh?
Listen! Keep straight and don't breathe
Look at me when I'm talking! Hello
LingLing! How 'bout a hug today?
LingLing Light them up well with the mirror
Why we always have to take our pictures from him?
It's too damn dull
Still, Mr. Wang's the only one to treat us with dignity
Ready?
One... two...
Three!
Hey, get up for a minute. Get up, I said
Try reciting our declaration
People are our principal spirit of revolution
Louder!
People are our principal spirit of revolution
Violence is our only weapon of revolution
With our people, we will overthrow the Japanese rule
With assassination, destruction and rebellion. We...
We will rebuild our tortured life under Japanese rule
And as a first class society there will be no suppression
Without any, without any oppression to our fellow men,
We will build an ideal Chosun nation...
That day, I was officially accepted into the group
Hi Seregay Hey they sure look silky
My! Why do girls always like his kind. Drives me crazy!
Wow! Let's stuff ourselves to death
Drink up!
Those bitches sure know how to roll their hips around
Sang-gu, do you see those Japs, over there?
That's Minami Soja. He's been dispatched to Shanghai
To the right is Gato, his pawn
In front of him is the cold-hearted Kuboda
You'll meet them soon
When should we kick their butts?
Kaneko-san!
Many foreigners are here
In Shanghai, there's a lot of armies from many countries
So what if there are?
We can crush those Japs and hide with the French
So far, they're good to us, but they have their own moves
our provisional government is there too
and it's best that we don't trust them too much
What are we doing? Let's drink up for those buffoons
The only buffoon here is you. Cheers!
You idiot! You're an imbecile!
Go outside to throw up if you don't feel well, Sang-Gu
Seregay consoled his pains with opium
They're beating him up!
Give us the money now
What are you doing? We want our opium money
But did you have to...
Seregay!
Hey guys! Look who's here?
It's the Queen of the club!
What do we have here? So! You got a knife?
Let's see what you can do, you son of a bitch!
Get lost!
Let's go!
Let's go! Come on!
I'll take him home
You're home late
You have a funny hobby
Well, yes, that is...
You seem to turn the pages with perfume
oh, now what should I do? I was really saving it up...
I hardly used it...
Who told you to bring me here?
Well, I'll see you later
We'll get an order from above
You just wait a bit, okay?
Hey you! Look at me when I'm talking to you!
Yesterday you got fancy food and you threw it all up
And now you...
You rotten bastard. You all right?
Sang-Gu! Go and get the pictures from the photo shop
Yes, sir
Now eat, okay?
Hello. How can I help you?
Photos?
Photos! Wait one minute
Here...
Photos
In the photo, you're not pretty
You should smile
Smile! No...
Have a cup of tea Yes, sir
Have you scrubbed yourself well?
You could get sick without some scrubbing now and then
Yes sir, I have
I need to scrub off filth
What do you mean? Please get to the point
A while ago, Han Myung-Gon received some subsidy from Lenin
2 million rubles was delivered from Moscow to Shanghai
But a 100,000 rubles of that just disappeared into thin air
You mean, Kim Lib took it?
Kim Ku already killed him
Everybody's talking about it. It's an issue for both parties
Then is it true that Kim Lib's money went to Dan-Jae?
Dan-Jae says he knew nothing,
but he received 500 rubles to write 'The History of Chosun'
The problem isn't the 500 rubles,
but it's the missing 100,000 rubles
The provisional government thinks that we took it all
All the leftists, including Lee Dong-Hui, Shin Chae-Ho
and Kim Won-Bong are all under suspicion
Isn't it manipulated by the Rhee Seung-Man's side?
That's why he broke off the leaders' meeting, didn't he?
I heard that they couldn't find that money in the end
Han Myung-Gon thought it was dangerous to carry it alone
So he entrusted a part of it to some guy
But that guy ran off to Russia to keep it for himself
We finally found him
Kill him and bring back the money
In two months, top Japanese officials will be in Shanghai
Probably conspiring to take the rest of China
Is that so?
Wow! We finally got a big one for us
Now we can make our names famous in history
Dol-Suk, it's your turn
I brought a guest. Please greet him
A Minister of Provisional Government, Mr. Ahn Chang-ho
I already spoke to your leader, Mr. Kim,
and I advise you to stop your terrorism from now on
Especially, the foreign settlements are absolutely forbidden
We're risking our lives by sneaking into those areas
And you want us to just watch those Japs kill our brothers?
Why judge everything only by the things you know?
Thanks to the protection from the foreign settlement officials,
thousands of our people can be safe in the French districts
So you'll keep bribing them with protection fees?
Now the Japs will expand their power into these areas
Then it'll be the last of diplomatic immunity
Terrorism is barbarism, and it's internationally condemned
We have to change our society through enlightenment
Look, you think terrorism is all about guns and knives,
but that's the decent part of it
The Japs should be hacked to death
Dol-Suk!
Sir! Let me take care of that damn Governor-General
I'll finish him with my blade
our guest is leaving
Show him the way out
You fellows think carefully about what I said
Seregay, here's the photo and the address
I'm standing here! Geez! What's wrong? Are you sick?
My headache's worse
Let's get it treated for good after you get back
After I leave, you sleep with her
Help me fall out of love
Before a big kill, we always took a picture
Since it could be our last moment alive
one
Two
Three
You know that dancing lady? That lady's your girlfriend?
Am I right?
But a gun is more reliable than a knife, right?
It depends on how you use it
He's enormous
Then there's plenty to stab at
A Russian hooker went in
She looks expensive
I guess he's got the money
Will you cut his throat or stab the heart?
You want to be the next Sabinkov?
Find out for yourself what killing is like
I think a stab in the heart will be better
The important thing is to avoid the ribs
Insert vertically under the left nipple
Don't you miss home? Now it's not home anymore
I heard you were from a royal family
It's been a while since I threw away my family name
I saw you reading a very interesting book
About anarchism
It's the ideology of the person that I love
So you learned the language of the one you love?
I was born in Chosun. My mother was a Chosun woman
Will you give me the honor of a toast with the royal family?
Seregay!
Seregay only sent me back
We divided the money to reduce the risk
But Seregay didn't come back
And I came back eating only eggs for 7 days
our leader was furious and ordered us to bring him back
The other members were sent
We were completely excluded from the operation
But with Lee Geun's efforts... Seregay was handed over to us
Did you forget how he protected
us when he was tortured?
He's also very sick, and he's not himself
You shouldn't have saved him without any authorization
In the end, you got in the way of his honorable death
Since then, Seregay's wasted...
Still, that's not fair!
How can they tell us to kill a comrade?
There are hundreds of members besides us
You know that we're being harshly punished for them
Why do you ignore that?
You don't care about Seregay at all
You care that it's humiliating
since it happened to us!
Let's stop it there
Please take the life that you saved
There's been a change of plans
Seregay was a great fighter
An activist who didn't need anything at all
Maybe Seregay was never meant to be one of us
I heard the gunshot from the opposite side
I was afraid and the guys didn't know what to say
Those who are here today have no right to mourn
That's because we are still cowardly alive
During last KwangDong earthquake,
Japanese had mercilessly massacred
thousands of our people
With the remaining ashes of a Chosun fighter in front of us,
I dare declare...
He was in a such a bad state that we had to cremate him
We found out that Minami, Gato and Kuboda did it
For whatever it takes, we intend to seek retribution
Let's renew our resolutions
All members and officials of the Provisional government,
please remain to take a photo in memory of today
Everybody, look over here one, two, three
Hey Kuboda! Where's Minami-san?
I don't know
You don't? Idiot!
Oh, Kaneko-san, it's an honor for me, Minami
What's the matter?
Did you have to take advantage of Kaneko as well?
What? I'm trying to relieve the sadness of a woman who...
You made no scruples to attain your goals
You're exploiting Kaneko
Don't forget that hundreds of our people are
dividing into nationalists or socialists
How can we bring them together to fight our enemy?
I'm talking about your coldness to use women in a revolution
You said that a rebel is cold- hearted as well as passionate
That terrorists are cold flames
You, me, Kim Ku and Dan-Jae,
we're being exploited for the revolution
Isn't your judgment these days being obscured by a woman?
You... What are you guys doing?
For Minami's death, Kaneko was tortured
By the despicable Gato and Kuboda, a Chosun national
They just used you for their terrorist activities
Do you know how Seregay died?
They killed Seregay
This is Seregay
Hey! Look what we have here!
Which hometown you from?
I'll show you what a real Chosun man is like, okay?
Lee Geun consoled Kaneko in place of Seregay
The group silently accepted
that she informed him about the Japs
That's new
What are you doing? It's Seregay's
Don't touch it
What's wrong? I drank coffee from it lots of times
Is this your place? Are you my husband?
And please don't use that form of speech with me
Why do Chosun men do that when they get acquainted?
Use it on your Chosun girls
I'm different. I'm Japanese
Sorry. You call us Japs, right?
I never thought of you as a Japanese woman before
Why is only Seregay dead and not you as well?
If you're comrades and rebels, you should all live or die
You hypocrite!
Do you think there's any meaning to be alive?
Christ, those two kissing away like they were
long lost lovers
Well, I guess she'll be going
What's up, Dol-Suk?
Oh! You're here. Want a cigarette?
Huh, are you leaving?
Let's have a meeting
We've got important info on the new Jap's Consul General
Wait! Stay still!
You can't go out alive
What happened? Shit!
Listen to him, Kuboda Drop the gun
Drop the gun!
Do as you're told. Please! Let's go!
Go away and listen to me
Don't follow me
Listen to them, Kuboda
It's no use running away
Shut up! You son of a bitch!
You're dead, you bastard
Take it off. Off! You shit!
What are you doing?
To eat a boiled egg, you have to crack its shell
No! What do you mean by no?
We'd be no different from them. This is inhuman
Inhuman? Animals don't do anything like this
Then what's a human supposed to do?
What are you supposed to do in a situation like this?
Just kill him Kill? Now that's very human
Is this all you learned while being tortured by the Japs?
There's an informant among us
If we don't find out, then we'll collapse
It's not about choosing to be human him or not,
but figuring out who you'll be human us or the enemy
There's no choice
If I keep insisting then you'll be suspicious of me
No, you've already started to be suspicious of me
What are you talking about?
Why didn't anyone tell me you were hiding in the bathroom?
My great responsibility for... That's enough!
I don't want to hear any more of it
Who's the informant?
I don't know. I just do what I'm told
Bring the electric generator, okay?
What's keeping you? I said get a move on it!
If you think you're right, shoot me
Where are you going?
Is Gato dead?
Why'd you do it? Why betray like that?
Betray? Wasn't it you
who betrayed first?
He was shot several times in the back, you say?
There was no time for you to recover the body
Then what was it that we buried?
The real Seregay is right here
So, it was all for this
Yes. After killing the only man I loved,
did you have to go so far as to use me to kill Minami?
Tell me why the hell did we have that fake funeral?
Was it to keep the truth from me?
You punished a traitor and used a woman's grief for your cause
You guys are geniuses
What makes you different from the Japs?
What gives you the right to ask about betrayal?
What is betrayal, anyway?
Leave Shanghai
We hid out because there was a search warrant out for us
Insufficient subsidy, crude weapons and an informant...
Many of our activities failed and we were falling apart
We needed a new change...
Even if you don't eat much, your hair sure grows fast
So is that why your first love ran away?
My first love, Chun-Mae
She had the biggest breasts. So I...
ouch, it hurts Hey kid, sit!
Come sit here, I said Sang-Gu!
I'll be straight with you
We decided to move to the leftists' base at Kwang-ju
From now on, we fight for a collective rise of socialism
Now, you'll be reborn as socialists at Kwang-ju
We're anarchists
Socialism is just another dictatorship
What do you want, then?
I want to work and take as much as I can
Just as I expected. Well, you can't beat that
But it's true that terrorism has no place here anymore
I devoted my whole life to it
You need ten years to match the number of people
I've killed
What's the use. They replace a Jap as soon as one goes down
Even if we kill the Emperor, his son will take his place
But terrorism is...
All right. Do as you like
Anyway, our leader won't be responsible for any more sacrifices of young patriots
Please finish your meal
I came down here not to serve nobles and Japs
Do you know what my dream was?
It was to die like a hero with style in Chosun or Japan
Forget orders! Just wipe them out. You just wait and see
There's gonna be something really surprising
Then all of you...
So what are you going to do?
I knew for a while that the age of socialism will come
But as sick as I am, what could I do in Kwang-ju?
And how could I lead others?
I'll just stay here with my comrades
Then you're all on your own
Whatever you do next, don't mention our group's name
Name isn't important to us
There will be no more financial support after today's lunch
Sang-Gu, do you know the original meaning of 'Anarchy'?
In Greek, it's 'Anarchia', 'anarcho'
What does it mean?
A group of sailors without a captain
You bums!
What are you doing there?
Come over here
Pay the rent The rent, I said
I'm sorry
Is that edible? Want some?
Damn it! You can have all you want!
I heard that 100 cooked carps will cure lung disease
Sang-Gu, come with me
You're sorry? You think our kids live on water?
No matter what, I want my money
Give me the money now!
I'll give it to you later
Don't try to trick me today. You understand?
Hey, what's there to look at?
This knife is from Arabia
It's my knife so I should know
This knife is the real thing
This is all I can give you What?
Hey, do you know what kind of knife this is?
Kid, what you doing? Take the money
Place your bets
If you don't fall in one minute, get double
If you make him fall, we give 10 times the bet
Shit, what's he saying?
If you hold out for a minute they give you double the bet
If you fall, then you lose
What if I win? You get 10 times the bet
Give me half of that money
I never saw him fall once. Just give me the money
God damn- it, you asshole! Come over here!
Wait a minute! I'll be back What?
Start!
We won, eh?
Hey, give it here. Sang-Gu, eat some more, okay?
Hey kid, is your stomach getting greased up enough?
This restaurant is the best and the most famous in Shanghai
Eat all you want, huh?
The guys must be hungry, too... Don't worry
I got it all figured out
This was delicious
If we get this for the guys, then...
LingLing
Where's your grandfather?
He was arrested for being involved with the Chosun people
We had to close the business
It was a cold and poor winter
Just do as I tell you...
I've had enough of it. Shut up!
Why do you always do that to me?
Is what I say that worthless?
Are you out of your mind?
Then you really want us to be petty thieves?
Somebody else will do it even if it's not us
What do you think, Han?
Sang-Gu, you should listen too. Come sit here
This Shanghai mob is looking for a new face
We just hand over the drugs and get the money
It's enough money for our weapons and living expenses
Anyway, everything will be over in a month, right?
I think that... Be quiet!
Who asked you to think? Leave the thinking to us
You stop there!
I'll tell you about my hometown.
When my father worked as a servant on the farm,
the landowner said I was an ignorant who didn't know
what a sickle is
So I took his sickle and slit his throat
Bastards! I thought they were my comrades
You don't know how important this is to me
Sang-Gu, after this, you go off on your own
I plan to do something on my own from now on
Put your hands up!
Hands up!
Put your hands up and don't move
You! You put this in, you bastards
Stay right there!
Turn around!
Hey, I could've done it alone. Ah, shut up
You could at least say thanks
What's up with the clothes?
If you're small in number, always have an alternative plan
What are you doing there? Come on
That's not the way... What?
It's this guy!
Now let's make them remember us
For the old timers at the Provisional Government to see
Let them have all the credit What good are they, anyway?
In 1910, the traitors sold the government to Japan,
Now, the minister of the Provisional Government are
selling the pseudo-government
Yeah, you're right!
But Mr. Kim's different
Kim Ku's struggling a lot to provide for the old timers
Let's just eat. Hey! What's wrong?
Kim Ku beat and killed Japanese officials,
just like us
Dol-suk!
That was Mr. Kim Ku
What's this?
Oh, shit! Let's get out!
In a week, from Daedal Pier at Hwangpo River,
a cruiser with Japanese officials will depart from here,
then pass through Inchon and arrive at Tokyo
Again, careful how you act
Especially you, Dol-Suk
Why do you always pick on me?
But, will all the head Japs really be meeting there?
The cruiser seems difficult
We do a preliminary infiltration
We make sure of the cruiser's structure and size in advance
Even if we fail, dead or alive we will still make it
to our homeland
I hope all of you will take the risk
I really miss my homeland
Steamy bean soup and the girls, I just can't wait!
But security must be tight
There's less soldiers on the cruiser than on land
There aren't many places for them to hide in
our worst scenario is sinking the cruiser
Don't worry. I'll kill them
with my bare hands, if I have to
Please don't forget about me when you go back home
And Sang-Gu! You just follow me
Dol-Suk! Now, why'd he trust you out of all of us?
Why do you say things like that?
It drives me crazy! And...
Don't get so excited Hello!
They were the best that we could find in weapons
They were crude, but we were confident with that
You'll have your ID papers at the rendezvous
You know what to do, right?
Whatever happens on the cruiser, we don't know each other
Dol-Suk and I will attack first with pistols
If we succeed, then we can all safely go to Inchon
If we fail, the second team attacks
Now we'll really do something for history, huh?
Let's all go back home after this big kill, okay?
We'll go to Seoul and make our way through
What do you think of my opinion?
I wouldn't let you down. I have a good feeling about this one
Today will be our last day in Shanghai
I'm sure we all have things to do
Be especially careful of how you act and dress
So is this the last time? Then what are we doing here?
Anything fun to do? Yes, there is
Hurry up
Here we go!
Ready?
One, two...
What's that expression? Smile!
Hey, did she take it already? Did you take it?
Yes... Yes... Good
Write a phrase to put on the photo
What's this?
Life is heavy as mountains, but death is light as feather
Let's split. We meet tomorrow morning at the rendezvous
We split?
Don't we all have things to do in Shanghai?
Take care. I'll bring the car at exactly 8:00 in the morning
We won't wait more than 10 minutes
Later, you tell me what you did with LingLing, okay?
You look like a monkey
What's wrong?
LingLing, I have to go tomorrow at seven
Don't forget about me, and buy yourself lots of delicious stuff
Consider yourself lucky!
You go back to your hometown
I said, go back!
Have a good life
Do you still think that I'm connected with Seregay's death?
The things that we're doing, are they really our ideals?
What do these things mean to us right this moment?
The important thing is that we're together
Let's leave the ideals and the dreams until after the mission
Excuse me
Kang Dol-Suk
You're a petty thief disguised as a revolutionist
You think killing a couple of Japanese people
will bring independence to Chosun and make you heroes?
Your ideals are over
Even after their death, they could not return home.
They failed, but they were still heroes...
A revolutionist is like a gust of wind that blows
towards this filthy world from a far away beautiful land
When I got out of prison, it was after the independence
The pro-Japanese Noh Duk-Sool became a police investigator
He arrested and tortured Leader Kim Won-Bong
He was accused of being a communist
After three days of loathing, he went over to North Korea.
Today, I am to receive a medal from the President of South Korea,
Rhee Seung-man
It's an honor of my small contributions to our nation
Does President Rhee deserve to give anyone the medal?
Today, at the ceremony President Rhee and I will be meeting
our fallen brothers
Sang-Gu, do you want to try?
Sang-gu take a look, they're all yours
The Russian Revolution was achieved not by individuals
but by the masses
Sang-Gu, black looks good on you
What matters is that we are together now
There was an ideal land for us
So free and pure that it could not exist in this world...