This film is based on an actual event.
On August 15th, 1945, Korea gets liberated.
The South gets under U.S.
and the North under Soyiet influences.
June 25th, 1950, the North Korean Peoples Army
makes a surprise attack on the South.
The North occupies Seoul in 3 days
and the rest in 40 days,
exceptfor the area south of Nakdong River.
Far outnumbered, many students joined
the South Korean army as yolunteer soldiers.
lNTO THE FIRE
Young-deok, August 8th, 1950
Executiye Producer JEONG Tae-won
Hey!
You!
Take this to the 3rd platoon!
Sir?
Gae-sung Store rooRop!
- Get me more ammo! - Yes, sir!
Capt. KANG?
Capt. KANG. How's the situation there?
Directed by LEE Jae-han Requesting back up, now!
Fire!
Charge!
This is the 3rd platoon!
- How much left? - That's it, sir.
This is the 3rd platoon!
Captain!
- Where are our backups? - They ordered a retreat.
Retreat, now! That's an order!
lf you don't, you'll all die!
Listen to me, KANG!
We can beat them, Commander!
- Lieutenant KIM! - Yes, sir!
- Backup the 3rd platoon. - Yes, sir!
Fight 'em off no matter what!
Yes, sir!
- Let's go! - Yes, sir!
- KIM Jun-seop! - Sir?
Careful out there.
ln coming on the left!
Medics! Over here!
Hury!
OH Jang-beom!
Back to 4th defense line!
More ammo, sir!
Load it up!
Take cover!
The machine guns are down!
Take it. Stay behind me!
Jang-beom! Stay back!
More enemies are coming!
2nd platoon! Sit tight!
Commander! We've lost contact, sir!
- Ty it again! - Yes, sir!
Capt. LEE Myung-guk, sir!
Still couldn't break through?
The remnants are starting to run away.
We'll seize the place, soon!
Unit 166 will finish fighting and head to Pohang, now!
Liberate our county!
Unify our county!
Kill evey one of 'em!
Charge!
Commander! Send us reinforcements, sir!
We'll get all the damn commies!
Retreat!
Let's go!
Take 'em down, now!
Picture taken, sir.
Yes, sir.
l understand, sir.
Commander?
Our political leader ordered
to go to battle at Nakdong River at once.
Look Commissar LEE An-nam. Why should l go there?
l'm going straight to Pohang.
But it's the pam's order!
What do those scribbling at their desks
know about war?
Are you saying you will go against an order?
Comrade. Who is above the pam?
Who is at the top ofthe pam?
Our Great Supreme Commander.
On the day l left Pyung-yang...
Our Great Supreme Commander...
Ordered me to seize Busan
before August 15th!
- Lieutenant! - Yes, sir!
Our 166 unit will march straight for Pohang.
Stop hesitating! Blow it up, now!
Hwe cut Mthe bridge, the rdugees will be stranded!
What will happen to them, sir?
That's an order, KANG Seok-dae!
Here.
We'll take care of you. Don't wory.
- Nurse! - Coming!
Hold on. The medication's coming.
More injured soldiers came! Hury!
We'll give you morphine.
KlM Jun-seop
Remove the body.
This way, please!
He's dead.
Can you hear me?
Or can't you?
Looks like your eardrums are ruptured.
Does it hurt?
What's your name?
Do you know when you got hurt?
Don't wanna talk to me?
What happened to KIM Jun-seop?
Killed in action, sir.
That fool.
Where are our backup troops?
Why'd you stop our backup fire?
Capt. KANG.
Our 3rd division did nothing but retreat the last 40 days.
We're sick of retreating!
When are the allied forces coming?
Where do we run away to now?
All the way to Busan?
Then what? Jump into the sea?
Enough! KANG!
Stop.
l know.
Watching your men die...
lt breaks your heart.
l didn't have any troops to send you.
And the artilley
units had to go and save the 4th division at Wonpori.
Our 3rd division will go to battle at Nakdong River immediately.
The North's 5th, 12th, and 15th
divisions are swarming to Nakdong.
We've been ordered to annihilate them.
Nakdong River will be a pool of blood.
Cuz we have nowhere else to retreat.
lt's our last line of defense.
Then which unit will protect Pohang here?
All attention!
All student soldiers in here!
Hury up, people!
- Get going! - Go!
When KIM Jun-seop died...
Were you the one with him?
Yes, sir.
Hury up!
What's your name, son?
OH Jang-beom, sir.
Catch!
Good day, sir.
- What is it? - Just wondering.
Them boys over there...
Are bound forjuvenile reformatoy on murder charges.
But they want to become student soldiers instead...
And fight against the damn commies.
Will you take fools like them?
l'm sure they'll be good at fighting and stuff.
Especially this one, here.
He looks a little old.
- Sure he's a student? - You're a student, right?
The other students are gathered over there.
Run over!
Don't wory, sir.
Run you fools!
His parents got shot dead by commies.
He's itching to get his hands on the commies.
Sign here, please.
68 new, plus 3 existing
student soldiers all 11 here, sir!
The existing 3 step forward.
Give the new studen soldiers a rifle
And 250 bullets each.
Now, sir?
Come up, one at a time!
Next!
Back to positions after getting your weapons!
Move it!
Whoa!
Awesome!
Men!
You will now be formed into one unit.
You will be divided into mo platoons.
Your captain will be...
OH Jang-beom here.
Excuse me, sir?
What is it?
Why's he the captain, sir?
Any objections?
Can't we vote to choose the leader?
Yeah! Let's do it democratically!
How about who eats the most?
l'm prem good at that, myself!
Quiet! You think this is a picnic!
The captain must have combat experience.
OH Jang-beom's your captain.
From now on, you will defend this place.
Our 3rd division command
will all go to battle at Nakdong River.
You mean...
We have to protect this place?
Just us, sir?
That's right.
Does Pohang need to be protected?
Pohang is a strategic point.
Then why are the soldiers leaving?
Pohang is important...
But if we loose the battlefront at Nakdong...
We're all dead.
lnformation tells us now...
lt's safer here compared to Nakdong River.
How long do we have to stand guard?
The allied forces will arrive in Busan soon.
Just till then.
Don't go, sir.
Can't you stay?
lt's an order from above.
A soldier moves according to orders.
Sir?
What if...
The commies attack? What then?
Then we kill 'em all!
Fool. We don't know how to shoot!
Shit. Then we learn.
Can't run away, right? We fight 'em, right?
Student soldiers...
Are you soldiers or not?
This is your county.
l trust you will defend it.
Here.
Remember.
Put it up higher than the arm.
Don't forget.
First you press power then set the frequency.
Then you turn the volume up to hear.
What's this again?
The frequency, sir.
No, it's the power!
We have no time. You buy those killed in action.
Ah, Captain?
What?
You can do it.
lf anything happens, call me.
l can't be the captain here.
l was never the leader type.
Lead them with heart.
lf your sincerity gets through, they will all follow you.
lt'll take our engineer units mo days
to come to build a temporay bridge.
Then 18 hours to build it
So three days in total.
We don't have enough rubber boats
to make a pontoon bridge, either.
Going around that mountain
will take a day and a half.
But the enemy could be waiting in ambush.
Commander?
Why don't we go to Nakdong as the pam ordered?
This is why theorists like you are no use in the battlefield.
Think about it.
When they're rest assured,
We should strike 'em from behind.
Then any ideas on how to cross the river?
The shock troops will swim across the river minimally armed.
Yes, sir. We'll swim across!
The tank unit goes around the mountain.
Swim across, now!
766 shock troops!
- Swim! - Yes, sir!
Swim across, now!
South Korean comrades.
Can't wait to see your damn mugs.
They're chocolates!
Move!
Get your hands off!
Scram!
Just one chocolate bar? Please?
Now.
Student soldiers! Student soldiers!
You will be divided into 2 platoons
- and work on... - What's he yappin'?
Speak louder. Can't hear ya.
The 1st platoon will buy the dead soldiers.
Did ya eat?
lf you didn't, go stuff yourself.
You three weak musketeers.
You boys.
Ever stab someone?
Ever kill a damn commie?
l ain't buying corpses.
Why should we do it?
We came to kill commies not buy corpses!
- Right? - Right!
- Yeah! - Yeah, he's right.
But still listen to the le! ader.
They're Capt. KANG's orders.
Orders?
What if we go against them?
You'll get shot dead.
By who?
You?
Shoot me?
What you looking at?
Move.
Take him. Hury!
One, mo, three!
Shoot one bullet...
- Good luck. - Like it's your 100th shot.
l shot eight shots before going to battle,
But you get just one.
So what do we do?
Shoot one like it's 100.
Again!
Shoot one like it's a 100!
Line up! Firing squad up front!
You son of a bitch!
Watch carefully.
See that?
lf you mess up, you'll lose your thumb.
Get down and shoot!
Breechblocks pulled back!
Fire!
Why's he shooting so much?
We're supposed to shoot once.
Whoa! See that?
Hey, Gap-jo?
This won't last mo weeks for all the mouths here.
lf he doesn't eat, it can last a month.
This stums just snack food for me.
Hey, Gap-jo.
What?
Wanna bring out the three weak musketeers
and scare 'em?
Show 'em who we are?
Who are we?
We're orphans! You bastards!
We're gangsters! You bastards!
Gap-jo can't even read! You bastards.
Shut up, bastard.
But that hat looks the best on you, Gap-jo.
Damn right.
Whoa! Cool!
Gap-jo? Is this a grenade?
Give me that.
- A grenade? - That's right, fool.
lf this blows,
lt can wipe out the black market.
- The whole thing will blow? - Yup.
We can wipe out the damn Lily gang with this.
They'll vanish without a trace.
Stay back!
Hey!
- Stay back! - Stop it!
- Don't move! - Stop it, fool!
Stay back!
Son of a bitch!
What's this?
You stupid!
lt'll blow, fool!
Throw it, fool!
Throw it!
Jump!
Arms up straight, fool!
What do we do?
There are only three sacs of potatoes
and mo sacs of corn left.
Don't wory.
We'll go find the food!
Wang-pyo, get up! Poong-chun, let's go!
Stop right there!
Stay out of it.
Why?
lt's an order.
An order?
Enough with the damn orders!
How are we going to fight against the North with them?
But they're trusting us to lead them.
So we gotta keep calm and handle things well.
Mother...
l miss you so much.
The soldiers guarding Pohang...
Left for Nakdong Riyer today.
There are only 71 of us left here.
Mother...
l can hear fellow students Iaughing in the nem room.
l don't remember the last time l heard laughter around here.
l hope their laughter will notvanish away.
Hey!
Can't ya dance better than that?
Poong-chun! Let's show 'em!
Go for it.
ln front of damn kiddies...
Charleston swing!
Bastards.
Gap-jo! Hey, Gap-jo!
lt's 10 o'clock. Go to bed.
lt was just getting fun.
- 1st platoon! Let's go! - This ain't a picnic!
We're at war!
Get up, now!
- See ya. - Sleep tight.
Ain't that heavy?
No, not at all.
But why's it so long?
lt's American. They made it for their size.
But it'll shoot really far.
Should l ty it?
Go ahead!
Then all the others will come out!
- Hey, bro? - What?
l miss Kimchi soup mama used to make.
Her homemade Kimchi
with anchovy broth. So delicious.
See, l told you not to follow me out here.
Are they our troops or the enemy?
lf they're the enemy, nobody shoots till l say so!
We shoot if you shoot?
Yeah, tell eveyone that.
Got it.
Hey, bro?
l gotta pee.
Hold it in.
Did you undo the stabilizer?
Get down!
Get down, now!
Nice cool breeze.
Not a damn mouse in sight.
Yeah.
Where are the enemy soldiers?
Damn monsters.
What if we win without even getting to shoot?
Wish l could fire away.
This place reminds me of home.
Cease fire!
Shouldn't we go and check?
Stop trembling, man!
We're supposed to check.
Mama...
Hury up and kill him!
What? Want me to do it?
Mother, l killed a North Korean soldier today.
l thoughtthe enemy soldiers were monsters with horns.
But they cried outfor
Their mothers just like us.
Mother...
Why must we be at war?
l have to get all the mixed emotions
Off my chest, Mother.
Corns? Come quick!
- Give me one. - Eat half a corn.
Scram!
We should go out there. Get ready.
But the commies are lurking out there.
What about the school?
Leave some to guard it.
Captain?
Can we use this?
Not sure.
Let's take it and see.
Look at that damn stomach!
Damn lard!
Hey.
Put that out.
Even my dad can't tell me what to do.
Stop yappin'.
l'm second in command here!
You wanna die?
Why you!
Son of a bitch!
That's American!
ln the forest...
Cigarette smell can go as far as 4 km.
What a wimp.
Get down!
Dar-young! Where ya going?
Yong-man!
Get down!
Wang-pyo! Get down!
Wang-pyo!
Damn commies! l'll kill 'em all!
Gap-jo!
Gap-jo! Watch out!
Follow 'em!
Fire!
Get down!
Poong-chon! That way!
Wait here!
Come up! Hury!
Put the gun down!
Now!
Hell no!
l'm a soldier of North Korea...
Led by General KIM Il-sung!
- Don't shoot! That's an order! - l'll die if l have to!
But will never surrender!
Don't shoot!
To liberate South Korea from under the Americans!
We'll stand victorious!
Don't shoot!
Shoot!
Go ahead, fool!
He's a commie!