The Age of Shadows (2016)

Set in the late 1920s, The Age of Shadows follows the cat-and-mouse game that unfolds between a group of resistance fighters trying to bring in explosives from Shanghai to destroy key Japanese facilities in Seoul, and Japanese agents trying to stop them.

Genres: Action, Thriller, History

What to watch after The Age of Shadows

• The Man Standing Next (2020) — Lee Byung-hun appears in both
• Assassination (2015) — Same subject: independence movement, korean resistance
• The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2008) — Kim Jee-woon directed both
• Joint Security Area (2000) — Lee Byung-hun and Song Kang-ho appear in both
• War of the Arrows (2011) — Two steps away in the credits
• Uprising (2024) — Same subject: korea