Anarchists (film)

Anarchists is a 2000 South Korean action film directed by Yoo Youngsik and cowritten by Park Chanwook. Set in Shanghai in 1924, the film is about a covert cell of insurrectionist anarchists who attempt to overthrow the Japanese governments occupation of Korea through propaganda of the deed. Told from the perspective of the youngest member, Sanggu, years after the fact, the story is a sympathetic look at a group of revolutionaries through the eyes of one of their own.

Eventually a string of tragic events strike the team. One of their members is fatally betrayed during a mission, leading to their covers being blown during the next. Now wanted by the Japanese and Chinese authorities, their funders turn away from them and instead choose to support socialist electoral politics to further their cause. This angers the group, and they leave the larger organization, attempting to survive on their own by earning money through gambling and bank robbery. Over time the group becomes agitated with simply scraping by and several voice a desire to return to their old ways of clandestine warfare. They collectively decide to strike at the Japanese government in a high profile attack, leading up to a dramatic finale.Specific character information largely comes from the films official website, rather than the film itself. Within the film, characters arent overtly developed and exposition largely comes through Sanggus perspective, relying on few monologues and no flashbacks to tell the backstory. Instead, references to some of the events described below can be detected within character interaction and dialogue. ........

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