My Way (2011 film)

My Way
South Korean poster
Hangul
마이웨이
Revised RomanizationMaiwei
McCune–ReischauerMaiwei
Directed byKang Je-gyu
Written byKim Byung-in
Na Hyun
Kang Je-gyu
Produced byKang Je-gyu
Kim Yong-hwa
James Choi
StarringJang Dong-gun
Joe Odagiri
Fan Bingbing
CinematographyLee Mo-gae
Edited byPark Gok-ji
Music byLee Dong-jun
Production
companies
Distributed byCJ Entertainment
Release date
  • 21 December 2011 (2011-12-21)
Running time
119 minutes
CountrySouth Korea
LanguagesKorean
Japanese
Russian
German
Mandarin
English
BudgetUS$24 million
Box officeUS$16.6 million[1]

My Way (Korean마이 웨이) is a 2011 South Korean war film produced, co-written and directed by Kang Je-gyu. It stars Jang Dong-gun, alongside Japanese actor Joe Odagiri and Chinese actress Fan Bingbing. Set before and during World War II, the film follows a pair of rival marathon runners, one Korean and the other Japanese, who befriend each other as they are conscripted across the war's different fronts.

My Way is based on the story of Yang Kyoungjong, a Korean conscript who allegedly served in the Imperial Japanese Army, the Red Army, and the Wehrmacht before being captured by the United States Army during Operation Overlord.[2] The film is one of the most expensive to have ever been produced in South Korea, with a budget of ₩28 billion (US$24 million).

The film was released in South Korea on 21 December 2011, but performed poorly at the box office due to high competition and received generally mixed reviews from critics.

  1. ^ "My Way (2012)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2012-11-19.
  2. ^ Beevor, Antony (2012). The Second World War. Little, Brown. ISBN 978-0316023740. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)