[HanCinema's Film Review] "Uprising"
By William Schwartz | Published on
Cheon-yeong (played by Gang Dong-won) is a boy raised as a noble, sold into slavery still as a boy, in the late sixteenth century. Jong-ryeo (played by Park Jeong-min) is the similarly aged boy, not in debt, whose family Cheon-yeong is sold to. As it happens, Cheon-yeong is fairly adept at the martial arts Jong-ryeo struggles with. As a peer, Cheon-yeong is able to teach Jong-ryeo how to fight in a way that Jong-ryeo's nominal tutors simply can't. Their lives take a somehow even bleaker turn, however, with the Japanese invasion of Korea.
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William Schwartz
Staff writer. Has been writing articles for HanCinema since 2012, having lived in South Korea from 2011 to 2021. He is currently located in the Southern Illinois. William Schwartz can be contacted via william@hancinema.net, and is open to requests for content in future articles.