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Race to Freedom: Um Bok Dong
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Wikipedia article
'Race to Freedom: Uhm Bok-dong' is a 2019 South Korean biographical drama film directed and written by Kim Yoo-sung. It stars Rain as a legendary cyclist Uhm Bok-dong.
This film was a critical and commercial failure, and is considered to be one of the worst South Korean films ever made.
Plot
Based on the true story of famed cyclist Uhm Bok-dong, who became a symbol of pride for Koreans when he defeated Japanese cyclists and won the championship in a bicycle race which took place during the Japanese colonial rule of Korea.
Cast
*Rain as Uhm Bok-dong
*Kang So-ra as Kim Hyung-shin
*Lee Beom-soo as Hwang Jae-ho
*Min Hyo-rin as Kyeong-ja
*Shin Cheol-jin as Oil Shop Owner
*Park Jin-joo
*Ko Chang-seok
*Lee Geung-young
*Lee Si-eon
* Lee Won-jong as Choi Jae-pil
* Hwang Hee as Long sword provost officer
Production
Principal photography began on April 18, 2017 and wrapped on September 29, 2017.
Reception
The film was considered widely among Korean audiences as a massive flop, and a meme about the film having attracted the lowest audiences in South Korean film has given birth to a meme that uses the number of people who watched the film, which was about 170,000, as a unit called 'UBD".
Controversy
The film got into a controversy because of Um's past as a robber.References
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