TWO ASIAN WAR EPICS opening this weekend form a study in contrasts. Both "Bang Rajan" (see capsule review on Page 38) and "Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War" depict intense, one might even say ...

“Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood Of War” proves that good stories transcend cultures, languages and points of view. Originally produced and released in South Korea, its epic themes and pure entertainment ...

If Americans think of the Korean War at all, it’s often as a kind of half-forgotten placeholder between World War II and Vietnam, two armed struggles with much more active and vocal constituencies. In ...

Asian filmmakers are taking Hollywood to school. Their lesson: how to make an epic on a budget. China did it with the $30 million Hero. South Korea has done it even better with Tae Guk Gi: The ...

Literalizing the phrase “band of brothers,” Shiri director Kang Je-gyu’s Asian box office smash Tae Guk Gi gives the Korean War the Saving Private Ryan treatment, vigorously blurring the line between ...