Underplayed Gems
The whole movie catalogue

Films and series, searchable by what they are

← Back to the shop

Harbin (2024)

Harbin poster
Original title
하얼빈
Directed by
Woo Min-ho
Genre
biographical film
Country
South Korea
Runtime
1h 48m
Rated
NR
Rating
7.3 of 10 from 51 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This film is about a Korean activist in 1909 who plots to assassinate a Japanese leader. It follows his mission and the people around him.

historicalseriousdeliberatepatrioticpoignantintenserestrainedsombermeditative

What happens

Harbin (Korean: 하얼빈) is a 2024 South Korean biographical period drama film directed by Woo Min-ho. The film stars Hyun Bin as Ahn Jung-geun, a Korean independence activist who assassinated Itō Hirobumi, the first Prime Minister of Japan, in 1909. The cast also includes Park Jeong-min, Jo Woo-jin, Jeon Yeo-been, Park Hoon, Yoo Jae-myung, Lily Franky, and Lee Dong-wook. The film had its world premiere in the Gala program of the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2024. It was released theatrically on December 24, 2024. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

More like this

This page is from Underplayed Gems. Not quite it? Tell the Catbot what you feel like watching and it picks from the whole catalogue, or browse by genre, country and year.

Lists: Korean thrillers worth the evening · Anime films beyond Studio Ghibli · Slow films for a rainy night · Horror that unsettles instead of startling · Series you can finish in a weekend · Nordic crime worth the subtitles · Good films that end in under 90 minutes · Documentaries that play like thrillers

Loading movies…

What should I watch?