Race to Freedom: Um Bok Dong

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Race to Freedom: Uhm Bok-dong
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Hangul
자전차왕 엄복동
Revised Romanization Jajeonchawang eombokdong
Directed byKim Yoo-sung
Written byKim Yoo-sung
Produced by Lee Beom-soo
Starring Rain
Kang So-ra
Lee Beom-soo
CinematographyPark Yong-soo
Edited by Park Gok-ji
Lee Yoon-hee
Music byChoi Yong-rak
Lee Ji-yeon
Production
company
Distributed by Celltrion Entertainment
Release date
  • February 27, 2019 (2019-02-27)
Running time
116 minutes
CountrySouth Korea
LanguageKorean
BudgetUS$13 million
Box officeUS$1.1 million

Race to Freedom: Uhm Bok-dong is a 2019 South Korean biographical drama film directed and written by Kim Yoo-sung. [1] [2] [3] [4] It stars Rain as a legendary cyclist Uhm Bok-dong.

Contents

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. [5]

Cast

Production

Principal photography began on April 18, 2017, and wrapped on September 29, 2017. [6]

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". [7]

Controversy

The film got into a controversy because of Um's past as a thief. [8]

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