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|writer = Jeon Cheol-hong
|writer = Jeon Cheol-hong
|story = Yoon Jong-bin
|story = Yoon Jong-bin
|starring = [[Ha Jung-woo]] <br>[[Gang Dong-won]]
|starring =
{{plainlist|
* [[Ha Jung-woo]]
* [[Gang Dong-won]]
}}
|music = [[Jo Yeong-wook]]
|music = [[Jo Yeong-wook]]
|cinematography = Choi Chan-min
|cinematography = Choi Chan-min
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|country = South Korea
|country = South Korea
|language = Korean
|language = Korean
|budget = {{USD|7 million}}
|budget = {{USD|35.9 million}}
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'''''Kundo: Age of the Rampant''''' ({{ko-hhrm|군도: 민란의 시대||Gundo: Min-ran-eui Si-dae}}) is a 2014 South Korean [[period drama|period]] [[action film]] starring [[Ha Jung-woo]] and [[Gang Dong-won]], and directed by [[Yoon Jong-bin]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Sunwoo|first1=Carla|title=Chemistry for Ha, Gang in ''Kundo''|url=http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/Article.aspx?aid=2990529|website=[[Korea JoongAng Daily]]|accessdate=2014-06-20|date=13 June 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Chung|first1=Joo-won|title=Ha Jung-woo calls Gang Dong-won a 'macho'|url=http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20140611001464|website=[[The Korea Herald]]|accessdate=2014-06-18|date=11 June 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Lee|first1=Seung-mi|title=Kang back in bitter bad boy role|url=http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/Article.aspx?aid=2992253|website=[[Korea JoongAng Daily]]|accessdate=2014-07-21|date=21 July 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Ha Jung-woo Talks About Directorial Ambitions|url=http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2014/07/19/2014071900430.html|website=[[The Chosun Ilbo]]|accessdate=2014-07-21|date=19 July 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Jang|first1=Sung-ran|title=In ''Kundo'', Yoon aimed to entertain|url=http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=2993109|website=[[Korea JoongAng Daily]]|accessdate=2014-08-08|date=7 August 2014}}</ref> Set in mid-19th century [[Joseon]], it is about a power struggle between the unjust wealthy noblemen who run society and a group of righteous outlaws who steal from corrupt officials to give to the downtrodden and starving.<ref>{{cite web|last=Frater|first=Patrick|title=Ha and Gang form Kundo gang|url=http://www.filmbiz.asia/news/ha-and-gang-form-kundo-gang|work=[[Film Business Asia]]|accessdate=2012-12-17|date=17 December 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Noh|first=Jean|title=Showbox picks up Yoon Jong-bin's Kundo|url=http://www.screendaily.com/news/asia-pacific/showbox-picks-up-yoon-jong-bins-kundo/5050057.article|work=[[Screen International]]|accessdate=2012-12-17|date=17 December 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Lee|first=Hye-ji|title=Ha Jung-woo, Gang Dong-won Cast in Period Action Pic|url=http://www.tenasia.com/ha-jung-woo-gang-dong-won-cast-in-period-action-pic/|work=TenAsia|accessdate=2012-12-17|date=14 December 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140328131446/http://www.tenasia.com/ha-jung-woo-gang-dong-won-cast-in-period-action-pic/|archive-date=28 March 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Ho|first=Stewart|title=Ha Jung Woo, Gang Dong Won Cast in 19th Century Joseon Period Movie, ''Islands''|url=http://enewsworld.mnet.com/enews/contents.asp?idx=23965|work=enewsWorld|accessdate=2012-12-17|date=14 December 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=An|first=So-hyoun|title=Ha Jung Woo and Kang Dong Won's ''Band of Thieves'' Confirms Its Cast|url=http://enewsworld.interest.me/enews/contents.asp?idx=34570|work=enewsWorld|accessdate=2013-04-23|date=23 April 2013}}</ref>
'''''Kundo: Age of the Rampant''''' ({{Korean|hangul=군도: 민란의 시대}}) is a 2014 South Korean [[period drama|period]] [[action film]] starring [[Ha Jung-woo]] and [[Gang Dong-won]], and directed by [[Yoon Jong-bin]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Sunwoo|first1=Carla|title=Chemistry for Ha, Gang in ''Kundo''|url=http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/Article.aspx?aid=2990529|website=[[Korea JoongAng Daily]]|accessdate=2014-06-20|date=13 June 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Chung|first1=Joo-won|title=Ha Jung-woo calls Gang Dong-won a 'macho'|url=http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20140611001464|website=[[The Korea Herald]]|accessdate=2014-06-18|date=11 June 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Lee|first1=Seung-mi|title=Kang back in bitter bad boy role|url=http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/Article.aspx?aid=2992253|website=[[Korea JoongAng Daily]]|accessdate=2014-07-21|date=21 July 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Ha Jung-woo Talks About Directorial Ambitions|url=http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2014/07/19/2014071900430.html|website=[[The Chosun Ilbo]]|accessdate=2014-07-21|date=19 July 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Jang|first1=Sung-ran|title=In ''Kundo'', Yoon aimed to entertain|url=http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=2993109|website=[[Korea JoongAng Daily]]|accessdate=2014-08-08|date=7 August 2014}}</ref> Set in mid-19th century [[Joseon]], it is about a power struggle between the unjust wealthy noblemen who run society and a group of righteous outlaws who steal from corrupt officials to give to the downtrodden and starving.<ref>{{cite web|last=Frater|first=Patrick|title=Ha and Gang form Kundo gang|url=http://www.filmbiz.asia/news/ha-and-gang-form-kundo-gang|work=[[Film Business Asia]]|accessdate=2012-12-17|date=17 December 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Noh|first=Jean|title=Showbox picks up Yoon Jong-bin's Kundo|url=http://www.screendaily.com/news/asia-pacific/showbox-picks-up-yoon-jong-bins-kundo/5050057.article|work=[[Screen International]]|accessdate=2012-12-17|date=17 December 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Lee|first=Hye-ji|title=Ha Jung-woo, Gang Dong-won Cast in Period Action Pic|url=http://www.tenasia.com/ha-jung-woo-gang-dong-won-cast-in-period-action-pic/|work=TenAsia|accessdate=2012-12-17|date=14 December 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140328131446/http://www.tenasia.com/ha-jung-woo-gang-dong-won-cast-in-period-action-pic/|archive-date=28 March 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Ho|first=Stewart|title=Ha Jung Woo, Gang Dong Won Cast in 19th Century Joseon Period Movie, ''Islands''|url=http://enewsworld.mnet.com/enews/contents.asp?idx=23965|work=enewsWorld|accessdate=2012-12-17|date=14 December 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=An|first=So-hyoun|title=Ha Jung Woo and Kang Dong Won's ''Band of Thieves'' Confirms Its Cast|url=http://enewsworld.interest.me/enews/contents.asp?idx=34570|work=enewsWorld|accessdate=2013-04-23|date=23 April 2013}}</ref>


==Plot==
==Plot==
The year is 1862. The late [[Joseon]] dynasty was a period of social and economic unrest in Korea, and it was also a time of great tyranny. Due to continuous natural disasters and poor harvests, poverty, hunger and death are rampant. The aristocracy rule the country and, concerned only with their own wealth, they exploit and persecute the poor.
The year is 1862. The late [[Joseon]] dynasty was a period of social and economic unrest in Korea, and it was also a time of great tyranny. Due to continuous natural disasters and poor harvests, poverty, hunger and death are rampant. The aristocracy rule the country and, concerned only with their own wealth, they exploit and persecute the poor. In these turbulent times, the Chusul clan, a notorious bandit group, rise against the authorities. They raid corrupt officials, then share their loot with the vulnerable and impoverished. Their members believe that their cause is more important than their own lives.

The film opens with a raid of the mansion of Governor Choi, who rules the Naju region. The clan confiscates the mansion's rice stores, distributes them to the poor and summarily execute Choi and his retinue. Elsewhere, Dol Mo-chi, a poor butcher, is asked by Joo Yoon, a young nobleman to perform a hit on a young woman for a hefty sum. When the time comes, Mo-chi could not commit the deed and allows the woman to escape. The following night, he found himself ambushed, locked inside his house along with his family while it is set ablaze. Mo-chi survives, and confronts Joo Yoon. He is harhly beaten. Taken into prison, he is due to be executed that very night, Joo Yoon having bribed the new governor to do so.

Joo Yoon's backstory is revealed: born the son of a gisaeng(Joseon female entertainer) and the nobleman Joo Won-sook, he was raised as Won-sook's heir due to the man's lack of sons. This changed when Won-sook's wife gave birth to a son, Seo-in, resulting in Yoon's position being displaced. He grew into a bitter, proud and cunning young man who gained a great proficiency of martial arts. Flash forward to the present, it is revealed that Seo-in was among the dead in the Choi mansion raid and the woman who Dol Mo-chi was sent to kill being Seo-in's pregnant wife, her child a potential threat to Yoon's newfound inheritance of the Joo family fortune.

Dol Mo-chi is rescued by the bandits and taken back to their base at the foot of Mt. Jisu, Seo-in's wife with them. Dae-ho, their leader, welcomes the butcher into their ranks, rechristening him as "Dochi". In the next two years, Dochi trains hard and quickly becomes one of the most feared bandits in all of the land. He also raises Seo-in's son as his own, the child's mother having passed from the birth.

In those two years, Joo Yoon, through a series of fraudulent contracts that take advantage of the common folk's illiteracy, takes over all of the land in Naju, while enslaving its inhabitants. Enraged, the bandits stage a daring raid on Naju, with Dochi confronting Joo Yoon, his tormentor. After a brief fight, Dochi lures Joo Yoon out to an ambush staged by Dae-ho while the rest of the bandits ransack the rice stores and redistribute them to the common folk of Naju. Joo Yoon manages to escape the ambush with his life, killing Dae-ho in the process and heavily wounding Dochi.

In the aftermath of the raid, Joo Yoon exacts brutal revenge on the citizenry, imprisoning them en masse. Ttaeng-choo, one of the bandits, finds himself captured and forced to reveal the bandits' mountain hideout through gruesome torture. Joo Yoon leads a force of government soldiers on a counter-raid of the hideout, burning down the base and inflicting heavy casualties, all while taking back his brother's son. Dochi, healing in a nearby monastery, makes it back too late and swears revenge.


The following morning, the survivors of the counter-raid are scheduled to be executed by hanging. Dochi crashes the execution with a Gatling gun, mowing down many of the troops. The Naju populace, already incensed from the many injustices committed against them, join Dochi on one final attack on the Joo family mansion. Joo Yoon greets his adversary calmly, despite losing everything. Standing in front of Jo Yoon, Dolchi challenges his arch-enemy to a final duel. The duel continues into the nearby bamboo forest, with Dochi finally dealing a mortal wound on Joo Yoon, who could not dodge properly due to cradling his nephew on his arm while fighting. Joo Yoon is promptly finished off by the Naju mob, who drive a spear into his back.
In these turbulent times, a band of fighters named ''Kundo'' rise against the authorities. They raid corrupt officials, then share their loot with the vulnerable and impoverished. While the king stands powerless against them, ''Kundo'' becomes a figure of fear to undeserving nobles, and a ray of hope in the lives of long-suffering citizens. The members of ''Kundo'' believe that their cause is more important than their own lives.


In an era when one's status is decided by birth, Dolmuchi was born to a poor butcher, while Jo Yoon, though born into a powerful and wealthy family, is illegitimate. The two men strike a dangerous deal and Dolmuchi loses his mother and sister as a result. He is trampled by Jo Yoon who commands absolute power in his oppressive world. Bringing together the men who are on the fringes of this dark society, Dolmuchi is accepted as a member of ''Kundo'' and opens his eyes to the world. Reborn under the new name "Dolchi," he draws his sword out of its sheath and disperses the shadow cast on the poor and helpless. Then before him, the man who took away his family appears. Standing in front of Jo Yoon, Dolchi challenges his arch-enemy to a final duel.<ref>{{cite web|title=HAF 2013 Projects: KUNDO Age of the Rampant|url=http://www.haf.org.hk/haf/pdf/project13/KUNDO%20Age%20of%20the%20Rampant.pdf|work=Hong Kong - Asia Film Financing Forum|accessdate=2013-04-23}}{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Ahn|first1=Sung-mi|title=Historical films set to cool off summer|url=http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20140707001002|website=[[The Korea Herald]]|accessdate=2014-07-08|date=7 July 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Sunwoo|first1=Carla|title=Hilarious Ha steals show in ''Kundo'' comedy|url=http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/Article.aspx?aid=2992103|website=[[Korea JoongAng Daily]]|accessdate=2014-07-21|date=17 July 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Ahn|first1=Sung-mi|title=Herald Review: No heroes in hero flick ''Kundo''|url=http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20140720000202|website=[[The Korea Herald]]|accessdate=2014-07-22|date=20 July 2014}}</ref>
Dochi, now the de facto leader of the bandits, takes back his child and rides into the sunset with the remaining bandits and the Naju citizens who had joined him, continuing the Chusul clan's fight another day.<ref>{{cite web|title=HAF 2013 Projects: KUNDO Age of the Rampant|url=http://www.haf.org.hk/haf/pdf/project13/KUNDO%20Age%20of%20the%20Rampant.pdf|work=Hong Kong - Asia Film Financing Forum|accessdate=2013-04-23}}{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Ahn|first1=Sung-mi|title=Historical films set to cool off summer|url=http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20140707001002|website=[[The Korea Herald]]|accessdate=2014-07-08|date=7 July 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Sunwoo|first1=Carla|title=Hilarious Ha steals show in ''Kundo'' comedy|url=http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/Article.aspx?aid=2992103|website=[[Korea JoongAng Daily]]|accessdate=2014-07-21|date=17 July 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Ahn|first1=Sung-mi|title=Herald Review: No heroes in hero flick ''Kundo''|url=http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20140720000202|website=[[The Korea Herald]]|accessdate=2014-07-22|date=20 July 2014}}</ref>


==Cast==
==Cast==
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{{colbegin}}
*[[Ha Jung-woo]] as Dolmuchi/Dolchi, a former butcher (the lowest class in the [[Joseon Dynasty]]) who joins a makeshift band of outlaws to avenge the death of his family.
*[[Ha Jung-woo]] as Dol Mo-chi/Dochi, a former butcher (an occupation which was in the ''[[cheonmin]]'' caste) who joins a makeshift band of outlaws to avenge the deaths of his family members.
*[[Gang Dong-won]] as Jo Yoon, a nobleman's son who is gifted in martial arts, but twisted by the fact that he was born to a [[concubine]] and thus is unacknowledged by his father and has no rights in the family or Joseon society.
*[[Gang Dong-won]] as Jo Yoon, a [[Yangban|nobleman]]'s son who is gifted in martial arts, but he has no rights as his mother was only a [[concubine]] and his father refuses to acknowledge him after the birth of a new son.
*[[Lee Geung-young]] as Ttaeng-choo, mood-maker of the band
**[[Nam Da-reum]] as young Jo Yoon
*[[Lee Geung-young]] as Ttaeng-choo, mood-maker and recruiter of the band. He is a monk by trade.
*[[Lee Sung-min (actor)|Lee Sung-min]] as Dae-ho, leader of the band
*[[Lee Sung-min (actor)|Lee Sung-min]] as Dae-ho, leader of the band
*[[Cho Jin-woong]] as Lee Tae-ki, a thief who used to be an aristocrat
*[[Cho Jin-woong]] as Lee Tae-ki, a thief who used to be an [[Yangban|aristocrat]]
*[[Ma Dong-seok]] as Tianbao
*[[Ma Dong-seok]] as Cheon-bo, the band’s powerhouse
*[[Yoon Ji-hye]] as Ma-hyang
*[[Yoon Ji-hye]] as Ma-hyang, the band’s archer
*[[Joo Jin-mo (actor, born 1958)|Joo Jin-mo]] as Song Young-gil
*[[Joo Jin-mo (actor, born 1958)|Joo Jin-mo]] as Song Young-gil
*Song Young-chang as Jo Won-sook
*Song Young-chang as Jo Won-sook
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*Kang Hyun-joong as Park
*Kang Hyun-joong as Park
*Kim Jae-young as Geum-san
*Kim Jae-young as Geum-san
*[[Jung Yi-seo]] as Si-ra
*Im Hyeon-seong as Yeom-tong
*Im Hyeon-seong as Yeom-tong
* [[Lee David]] as Jo Seo-in
* [[Lee David]] as Jo Seo-in
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*Noh Gang-min as young Lee
*Noh Gang-min as young Lee
*Eom Ji-seong as Joong-man-yi
*Eom Ji-seong as Joong-man-yi
*[[Nam Da-reum]] as young Jo Yoon
*Jang Woo-jin as Warehouse constable 1
*Jang Woo-jin as Warehouse constable 1
*Park Song-taek as Warehouse constable 2
*Park Song-taek as Warehouse constable 2
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*Eom Ji-man as Kundo 2
*Eom Ji-man as Kundo 2
*Kim Tae-su as Jo Yoon's slave 1
*Kim Tae-su as Jo Yoon's slave 1
*Yoon Kyeong-ho as Jo Yoon's slave 2
*[[Yoon Kyung-ho]] as Jo Yoon's slave 2
*Ri Min as Tribute government official
*Ri Min as Tribute government official
*Heo Ji-hye as Former [[gisaeng]]
*Heo Ji-hye as Former [[gisaeng]]
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| rowspan=21| 2014
| rowspan=21| 2014
| rowspan=4| <center> [[23rd Buil Film Awards|23rd]] [[Buil Film Awards]]<ref>{{cite web|last1=Kim|first1=June|title=SHIM Eun-kyung, SONG Kang-ho, HONG Sangsoo and ROARING CURRENTS Win at 23rd Buil Film Awards|url=http://www.koreanfilm.or.kr/jsp/news/news.jsp?mode=VIEW&seq=3178|website=Korean Film Biz Zone|accessdate=2014-10-09|date=6 October 2014}}</ref></center>
| rowspan=4| {{center| [[23rd Buil Film Awards|23rd]] [[Buil Film Awards]]<ref>{{cite web|last1=Kim|first1=June|title=SHIM Eun-kyung, SONG Kang-ho, HONG Sangsoo and ROARING CURRENTS Win at 23rd Buil Film Awards|url=http://www.koreanfilm.or.kr/jsp/news/news.jsp?mode=VIEW&seq=3178|website=Korean Film Biz Zone|accessdate=2014-10-09|date=6 October 2014}}</ref>}}
| Best Supporting Actress
| Best Supporting Actress
| [[Yoon Ji-hye]]
| [[Yoon Ji-hye]]
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| {{won}}
| {{won}}
|-
|-
| rowspan=2| <center> 34th [[Korean Association of Film Critics Awards]]<ref>{{cite web|last1=Conran|first1=Pierce|title=Top Honors for HILL OF FREEDOM at 34th Korean Film Critics Association Awards|url=http://www.koreanfilm.or.kr/jsp/news/news.jsp?mode=VIEW&seq=3199|website=Korean Film Biz Zone|accessdate=2014-11-08|date=4 November 2014}}</ref></center>
| rowspan=2| {{center| 34th [[Korean Association of Film Critics Awards]]<ref>{{cite web|last1=Conran|first1=Pierce|title=Top Honors for HILL OF FREEDOM at 34th Korean Film Critics Association Awards|url=http://www.koreanfilm.or.kr/jsp/news/news.jsp?mode=VIEW&seq=3199|website=Korean Film Biz Zone|accessdate=2014-11-08|date=4 November 2014}}</ref>}}
| Best Cinematography
| Best Cinematography
| Choi Chan-min
| Choi Chan-min
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| {{won}}
| {{won}}
|-
|-
| rowspan=6| <center> [[51st Grand Bell Awards|51st]] [[Grand Bell Awards]]<ref>{{cite web|first=June|last=Kim|title=The 51st Daejong Film Awards Nominations Announced|url=http://www.koreanfilm.or.kr/jsp/news/news.jsp?mode=VIEW&seq=3211|website=Korean Film Biz Zone|accessdate=2014-11-12|date=12 November 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Conran|first1=Pierce|title=ROARING CURRENTS Tops 51st Daejong Film Awards|url=http://www.koreanfilm.or.kr/jsp/news/news.jsp?mode=VIEW&seq=3232|website=Korean Film Biz Zone|accessdate=2014-11-25|date=24 November 2014}}</ref></center>
| rowspan=6| {{center| [[51st Grand Bell Awards|51st]] [[Grand Bell Awards]]<ref>{{cite web|first=June|last=Kim|title=The 51st Daejong Film Awards Nominations Announced|url=http://www.koreanfilm.or.kr/jsp/news/news.jsp?mode=VIEW&seq=3211|website=Korean Film Biz Zone|accessdate=2014-11-12|date=12 November 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Conran|first1=Pierce|title=ROARING CURRENTS Tops 51st Daejong Film Awards|url=http://www.koreanfilm.or.kr/jsp/news/news.jsp?mode=VIEW&seq=3232|website=Korean Film Biz Zone|accessdate=2014-11-25|date=24 November 2014}}</ref>}}
| Best Actor
| Best Actor
| [[Gang Dong-won]]
| [[Gang Dong-won]]
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| {{nom}}
| {{nom}}
|-
|-
| <center> 22nd Korea Culture and Entertainment Awards</center>
| {{center| 22nd Korea Culture and Entertainment Awards}}
| Excellence Award, Actor in a Film
| Excellence Award, Actor in a Film
| [[Jung Man-sik]]
| [[Jung Man-sik]]
| {{won}}
| {{won}}
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|-
| rowspan=6| <center> [[35th Blue Dragon Film Awards|35th]] [[Blue Dragon Film Awards]]<ref>{{cite web|first=June|last=Kim|title=35th Blue Dragon Awards Names THE ATTORNEY Best Film|url=http://www.koreanfilm.or.kr/jsp/news/news.jsp?mode=VIEW&seq=3267|website=Korean Film Biz Zone|accessdate=2014-12-18|date=18 December 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Kevin|last=Ma|title=Attorney wins four at Blue Dragon Awards|url=http://www.filmbiz.asia/news/attorney-wins-four-at-blue-dragon-awards|website=[[Film Business Asia]]|accessdate=2014-12-18|date=18 December 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141218150316/http://www.filmbiz.asia/news/attorney-wins-four-at-blue-dragon-awards|archivedate=18 December 2014}}</ref></center>
| rowspan=6| {{center| [[35th Blue Dragon Film Awards|35th]] [[Blue Dragon Film Awards]]<ref>{{cite web|first=June|last=Kim|title=35th Blue Dragon Awards Names THE ATTORNEY Best Film|url=http://www.koreanfilm.or.kr/jsp/news/news.jsp?mode=VIEW&seq=3267|website=Korean Film Biz Zone|accessdate=2014-12-18|date=18 December 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Kevin|last=Ma|title=Attorney wins four at Blue Dragon Awards|url=http://www.filmbiz.asia/news/attorney-wins-four-at-blue-dragon-awards|website=[[Film Business Asia]]|accessdate=2014-12-18|date=18 December 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141218150316/http://www.filmbiz.asia/news/attorney-wins-four-at-blue-dragon-awards|archivedate=18 December 2014}}</ref>}}
| Best Supporting Actor
| Best Supporting Actor
| [[Lee Sung-min (actor)|Lee Sung-min]]
| [[Lee Sung-min (actor)|Lee Sung-min]]
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| {{nom}}
| {{nom}}
|-
|-
| rowspan=2| <center> 1st Korean Film Producers Association Awards</center>
| rowspan=2 style="text-align:center;" | 1st Korean Film Producers Association Awards
| Best Supporting Actress
| Best Supporting Actress
| [[Yoon Ji-hye]]
| [[Yoon Ji-hye]]
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| 2015
| 2015
| <center> 20th [[Chunsa Film Art Awards]]</center>
| {{center| 20th [[Chunsa Film Art Awards]]}}
| Best Actor
| Best Actor
| [[Ha Jung-woo]]
| [[Ha Jung-woo]]
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* {{hancinema film|KUNDO__2p__Age_of_the_Rampant}}
* {{hancinema film|KUNDO__2p__Age_of_the_Rampant}}
* {{kmdb film|13866}}
* {{kmdb film|13866}}
* {{imdb title|2972482}}
* {{IMDb title|2972482}}


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Kundo: Age of the Rampant
Theatrical poster
Hangul
군도: 민란의 시대
Hanja
群盜: 民亂의 時代
Revised RomanizationGundo: Millanui Sidae
McCune–ReischauerKundo: Millanŭi Sidae
Directed byYoon Jong-bin
Written byJeon Cheol-hong
Story byYoon Jong-bin
Produced byYoon Jong-bin
Yoo Jeong-hun
Starring
CinematographyChoi Chan-min
Edited byKim Sang-bum
Kim Jae-bum
Music byJo Yeong-wook
Distributed byShowbox/Mediaplex
Release date
  • July 23, 2014 (2014-07-23)
Running time
137 minutes
CountrySouth Korea
LanguageKorean
BudgetUS$35.9 million

Kundo: Age of the Rampant (Korean: 군도: 민란의 시대) is a 2014 South Korean period action film starring Ha Jung-woo and Gang Dong-won, and directed by Yoon Jong-bin.[1][2][3][4][5] Set in mid-19th century Joseon, it is about a power struggle between the unjust wealthy noblemen who run society and a group of righteous outlaws who steal from corrupt officials to give to the downtrodden and starving.[6][7][8][9][10]

Plot

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The year is 1862. The late Joseon dynasty was a period of social and economic unrest in Korea, and it was also a time of great tyranny. Due to continuous natural disasters and poor harvests, poverty, hunger and death are rampant. The aristocracy rule the country and, concerned only with their own wealth, they exploit and persecute the poor. In these turbulent times, the Chusul clan, a notorious bandit group, rise against the authorities. They raid corrupt officials, then share their loot with the vulnerable and impoverished. Their members believe that their cause is more important than their own lives.

The film opens with a raid of the mansion of Governor Choi, who rules the Naju region. The clan confiscates the mansion's rice stores, distributes them to the poor and summarily execute Choi and his retinue. Elsewhere, Dol Mo-chi, a poor butcher, is asked by Joo Yoon, a young nobleman to perform a hit on a young woman for a hefty sum. When the time comes, Mo-chi could not commit the deed and allows the woman to escape. The following night, he found himself ambushed, locked inside his house along with his family while it is set ablaze. Mo-chi survives, and confronts Joo Yoon. He is harhly beaten. Taken into prison, he is due to be executed that very night, Joo Yoon having bribed the new governor to do so.

Joo Yoon's backstory is revealed: born the son of a gisaeng(Joseon female entertainer) and the nobleman Joo Won-sook, he was raised as Won-sook's heir due to the man's lack of sons. This changed when Won-sook's wife gave birth to a son, Seo-in, resulting in Yoon's position being displaced. He grew into a bitter, proud and cunning young man who gained a great proficiency of martial arts. Flash forward to the present, it is revealed that Seo-in was among the dead in the Choi mansion raid and the woman who Dol Mo-chi was sent to kill being Seo-in's pregnant wife, her child a potential threat to Yoon's newfound inheritance of the Joo family fortune.

Dol Mo-chi is rescued by the bandits and taken back to their base at the foot of Mt. Jisu, Seo-in's wife with them. Dae-ho, their leader, welcomes the butcher into their ranks, rechristening him as "Dochi". In the next two years, Dochi trains hard and quickly becomes one of the most feared bandits in all of the land. He also raises Seo-in's son as his own, the child's mother having passed from the birth.

In those two years, Joo Yoon, through a series of fraudulent contracts that take advantage of the common folk's illiteracy, takes over all of the land in Naju, while enslaving its inhabitants. Enraged, the bandits stage a daring raid on Naju, with Dochi confronting Joo Yoon, his tormentor. After a brief fight, Dochi lures Joo Yoon out to an ambush staged by Dae-ho while the rest of the bandits ransack the rice stores and redistribute them to the common folk of Naju. Joo Yoon manages to escape the ambush with his life, killing Dae-ho in the process and heavily wounding Dochi.

In the aftermath of the raid, Joo Yoon exacts brutal revenge on the citizenry, imprisoning them en masse. Ttaeng-choo, one of the bandits, finds himself captured and forced to reveal the bandits' mountain hideout through gruesome torture. Joo Yoon leads a force of government soldiers on a counter-raid of the hideout, burning down the base and inflicting heavy casualties, all while taking back his brother's son. Dochi, healing in a nearby monastery, makes it back too late and swears revenge.

The following morning, the survivors of the counter-raid are scheduled to be executed by hanging. Dochi crashes the execution with a Gatling gun, mowing down many of the troops. The Naju populace, already incensed from the many injustices committed against them, join Dochi on one final attack on the Joo family mansion. Joo Yoon greets his adversary calmly, despite losing everything. Standing in front of Jo Yoon, Dolchi challenges his arch-enemy to a final duel. The duel continues into the nearby bamboo forest, with Dochi finally dealing a mortal wound on Joo Yoon, who could not dodge properly due to cradling his nephew on his arm while fighting. Joo Yoon is promptly finished off by the Naju mob, who drive a spear into his back.

Dochi, now the de facto leader of the bandits, takes back his child and rides into the sunset with the remaining bandits and the Naju citizens who had joined him, continuing the Chusul clan's fight another day.[11][12][13][14]

Cast

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  • Ha Jung-woo as Dol Mo-chi/Dochi, a former butcher (an occupation which was in the cheonmin caste) who joins a makeshift band of outlaws to avenge the deaths of his family members.
  • Gang Dong-won as Jo Yoon, a nobleman's son who is gifted in martial arts, but he has no rights as his mother was only a concubine and his father refuses to acknowledge him after the birth of a new son.
  • Lee Geung-young as Ttaeng-choo, mood-maker and recruiter of the band. He is a monk by trade.
  • Lee Sung-min as Dae-ho, leader of the band
  • Cho Jin-woong as Lee Tae-ki, a thief who used to be an aristocrat
  • Ma Dong-seok as Cheon-bo, the band’s powerhouse
  • Yoon Ji-hye as Ma-hyang, the band’s archer
  • Joo Jin-mo as Song Young-gil
  • Song Young-chang as Jo Won-sook
  • Jung Man-sik as Butler Yang
  • Kim Byeong-ok as Toposa
  • Kim Jong-gu as Choi Hyun-ki
  • Kim Sung-kyun as Jang
  • Kang Hyun-joong as Park
  • Kim Jae-young as Geum-san
  • Jung Yi-seo as Si-ra
  • Im Hyeon-seong as Yeom-tong
  • Lee David as Jo Seo-in
  • Woo Jeong-guk as Citizen 1
  • Choe Yeong-do as Citizen 2
  • Park Myung-shin as Choi's wife
  • Cho Seon-mook as Foreigner
  • Kim Sam-il as Jang's father
  • Noh Gang-min as young Lee
  • Eom Ji-seong as Joong-man-yi
  • Jang Woo-jin as Warehouse constable 1
  • Park Song-taek as Warehouse constable 2
  • Yeon Jun-won as Kundo 1
  • Eom Ji-man as Kundo 2
  • Kim Tae-su as Jo Yoon's slave 1
  • Yoon Kyung-ho as Jo Yoon's slave 2
  • Ri Min as Tribute government official
  • Heo Ji-hye as Former gisaeng
  • Jeon Seong-ae as Former midwife
  • Jeong Dae-yong as Oksa elder
  • Kim Hae-sook as Dolmuchi's mother
  • Han Ye-ri as Gok-ji

Box office

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Kundo: Age of the Rampant drew 551,848 viewers on its first day in theaters on July 23, 2014, grossing ₩4.08 billion (or US$3.997 million). This was the all-time highest opening day box office in South Korea, for both a foreign and domestic film, breaking previous records set by Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) and Secretly, Greatly (2013) (Kundo's record would shortly be broken eight days later by The Admiral: Roaring Currents.[15][16][17] It reached 3.1 million viewers in five days.[18][19][20][21]

Awards and nominations

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Year Award Category Recipient Result
2014
23rd Buil Film Awards[22]
 Best Supporting Actress Yoon Ji-hye Nominated
Best Cinematography Choi Chan-min Nominated
Best Art Direction Park Il-hyun Nominated
Best Music Jo Yeong-wook Won
34th Korean Association of Film Critics Awards[23]
 Best Cinematography Choi Chan-min Won
Best Music Jo Yeong-wook Won
51st Grand Bell Awards[24][25]
 Best Actor Gang Dong-won Nominated
Best Supporting Actress Yoon Ji-hye Nominated
Best Art Direction Park Il-hyun Nominated
Best Costume Design Jo Sang-gyeong Won
Best Music Jo Yeong-wook Nominated
Technical Award (visual effects) Lee Jeon-hyeong, Jo Yong-seok Nominated
22nd Korea Culture and Entertainment Awards
 Excellence Award, Actor in a Film Jung Man-sik Won
35th Blue Dragon Film Awards[26][27]
 Best Supporting Actor Lee Sung-min Nominated
Best Cinematography Choi Chan-min Won
Best Lighting Yu Yeong-jong Won
Best Art Direction Park Il-hyun Nominated
Best Music Jo Yeong-wook Won
Technical Award (martial arts) Jung Doo-hong, Kang Young-mook Nominated
1st Korean Film Producers Association Awards Best Supporting Actress Yoon Ji-hye Won
Best Music Jo Yeong-wook Won
2015
20th Chunsa Film Art Awards
 Best Actor Ha Jung-woo Won

References

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  22. ^ Kim, June (6 October 2014). "SHIM Eun-kyung, SONG Kang-ho, HONG Sangsoo and ROARING CURRENTS Win at 23rd Buil Film Awards". Korean Film Biz Zone. Retrieved 2014-10-09.
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