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R-Point

R-PointR-Point (알 포인트) written and directed by Su-chang Kong and starring Gam Wu-seong and Son Byung-ho. R-Point is set in 1972 Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. On 07 January 1972, the South Korean base in Nah-Trang, Vietnam, receives a radio transmission from a missing platoon stationed at R-point presumed dead. The high-command assigns the veteran and decorated Lieutenant Choi Tae-in to lead a squad with eight other soldiers and rescue the missing soldiers from the R-Point. When they arrive at the location, they have a shootout with a Vietnamese woman armed with a machine gun in a trench. Later, they find a tombstone telling that one hundred years ago, Chinese killed Vietnamese, dropped them in a lake and built a temple over the grave, and is now a sacred location to the Vietnamese. While chasing the missing soldiers, weird things happen with the rescue team.

Director: 
Kong Su-chang
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Year: 
2004
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