Hero

The movie improves on the stage musical of Ahn's life by showing things like battles and fights. The production is grand and exciting. The different resistance characters are quite clearly defined and you get to feel for them. It reminded me of the excellent Anthropoid about the Czech resistance who killed Hangman Heydrich.

This movie needed to be made and seen by many because the Japanese Government official line is not apologetic for Ito's actions in Korea or China. They think his death was an act of terrorism. In Germany any one would get in trouble for praising ww2 nazi war criminals. But in Japan they honor those who murdered millions.

Can't wait for Harbin the non musical version of the hero's life starring Hyun Bin.