The Last Battle of the Korean War Streets November 7th Source: Madman Entertainment Special Thanks to Ben Pollock The fast paced, action-packed war epic THE FRONT LINE (???, Gojijeon, 2011) comes to Australian Blu-ray and DVD on November 7th from Madman Entertainment. Based on a novel by Park Sang-yeon, the author of DMZ by (basis for the blockbuster film JSA: JOINT SECURITY AREA), THE FRONT LINE was South Korea`s official submission for the 2012 Academy Awards and an Official Selection of the 2012 New Zealand World Cinema showcase and 2012 Korean Film Festival. Towards the end of the Korean War, a South Korean battalion is fiercely battling over a hill on the front line border against the North in order to capture a strategic point that would determine the new border between two nations. The ownership of this small patch of land would swap multiple times each day. Kang is dispatched to the front line in order to investigate a strange death that happened there. But he gets spiraled into the war that’s more terrifying than death itself when he meets his friend Kim, who has transformed into a war machine, and his unit. As the countdown for ceasefire begins, both sides become more vicious, resulting in deaths of countless lives until the last man could claim the land. Release Date: October 24, 2012 Year Of Production: 2011 Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Widescreen Running Time: 133 minutes Format: Blu-ray (Region B) SRP: $34.95 Catalog: EYE389BR Audio tracks: DTS-HD 5.1, Dolby 2.0 Language: Korean, English Subtitles: English Format: DVD (Region 4, PAL) SRP: $29.95 Catalog: EYE389 Audio tracks: Dolby 5.1, DTS 5.1 Language: Korean Subtitles: English Blu-ray and DVD Special Features Making of THE FRONT LINE Extended promo trailer Original trailer
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