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'Operation Chromite' is a 2016 South Korean war drama film directed by John H. Lee and based on the real-life events of the Battle of Inchon, although it presents a fictionalized version of the historical CIA/US military intelligence operation "Trudy Jackson", conducted before the actual landing operation. It was released on 27 July 2016 in South Korea.

Plot



In 1950, just a few months after North Korean forces have overrun most of South Korea, an American-led UN coalition is deployed to Korea to aid the struggling South Koreans. General of the Army Douglas MacArthur devises a secret plan to attack behind enemy lines at the port city of Incheon. The risky strategy is opposed by leaders of the other military branches, forcing MacArthur to devise a clandestine operation to gather essential information from within occupied Incheon by coordinating a weeklong South Korean intelligence operation known as "X-Ray".

The linchpin of this top-secret incursion, Captain Jang Hak-Soo of the South Korean navy Intelligence Unit (a former North Korean army officer who defected to South Korea after seeing his father executed in front of him by his fellow communist officers), and seven members of the X-Ray unit disguise themselves as a North Korean inspection unit and infiltrate the North Korean army command center in Incheon, coordinated by Soviet-trained Commander Lim Gye-Jin, a protg of the North Korean leader, Kim Il-Sung. Their prime objective is to determine the placement of North Korean defenses (such as mines and artillery) and the tactical characteristics of the Incheon harbor (notorious for swift currents and major tidal surges), and secure a lighthouse crucial to the landing's success.

Immediately suspicious of Jang's "inspection mission", Lim attempts to impede his comrade's investigation and orders his staff to monitor the new arrivals closely. The U.S. command relays MacArthur's orders to obtain navigation charts showing naval mine placements in the harbor and prepare a strategy to assist the coalition forces with landing an amphibious assault in a narrow two-hour window between tides. When contacts within the South Korean military intelligence unit known as KLO (Korean Liaison Office, predecessor to present-day South Korean Headquarters of Intelligence Detachment, or HID) warn Jang that time is running out to successfully complete the mission, he pushes his group to extremes. Meanwhile, in Tokyo, MacArthur prepares 'Operation Chromite', an invasion force of 75,000 UN troops and over 200 warships, to imminently depart for the Korean Peninsula.

Cast



* Lee Jung-jae as Jang Hak-soo

* Lee Beom-soo as Lim Gye-jin

* Liam Neeson as General Douglas MacArthur

* Jin Se-yeon as Han Chae-seon

* Jung Joon-ho as Seo Jin-chul

* Kim Byeong-ok as Choi Suk-joong

* Park Chul-min as Nam Ki-sung

* Jon Gries as Hoyt Vandenberg

* Gil Geum-sung as Chun Dal-joong

* Shin Soo-hang as Kang Bong-po

* Kim Hee-jin as Ryu Jang-choon

* Jung Min-ji as Ok Gil-ryun

* Naya as Yeo Ga-soo

* Lee Choong-goo as Hwa-gyoon

* Sung Hyuk as Song Sang-deuk

* Go Yoon as commando

* Jang Joon-hak as Yang Pan-dong

* Sean Richard Dulake as Lt. Col. Edward L. Rowny

* Justin Rupple as Alexander Haig

* Jin Yong-ok as Jo In-gook

* Park Jung-won as Ri Kyung-shik

* Yang Bum as Ham Kwang-suk

* Lee Hae-joon as Ji Jin-pyo

* Josie Bissett as Jean MacArthur

* Yoon Suk-jin as Do Hong-gyoo

* Kim Joong-hee as Joo Hyun-pil

* Yun Da-yeong as Gye Eun-sook

* Kim Se-jung as Uhm Gi-soon

* Park Sung-woong as Park Nam-chul (cameo)

* Kim Sun-a as Kim Hwa-young (cameo)

* Kim Young-ae as Na Jung-nim (cameo)

* Choo Sung-hoon as Baek San (cameo)

* Lee Won-jong as Kim Il-sung (cameo)

* Jung Kyung-soon as Jung Sun-sil (cameo)

English dubbing



* Song Sang-deuk - Sean Chiplock

* Darrel Delfin

Reception



The film was number-one on its opening at the South Korean box office, grossing . with around seven million tickets sold . It grossed worldwide.

In the United Kingdom, it was 2017's best-selling foreign language film on home video, above 'Your Name' in second place.

On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 37% based on 19 reviews, with an average rating of 7.89/10.

Extended Cut



A South Korean release of the Blu-Ray version put the extended cut at 141 minutes.

Sequel



'The Battle of Jangsari 9.15', a sequel to the film 'Chromite', was released in 2019, the second part of a trilogy. The film covers a later small attack at Jangsari, intended to draw North Korean attention from Inchon.

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