Harbin Harbin (2024)

In 1905, Japan forced Korea to sign the Treaty of Eulsa, stripping the nation of its diplomatic rights and reducing the entire peninsula to a Japanese colony. In 1909, when Harbin begins, the small but tenacious militia of the Army of the Righteous is engaged in a campaign of armed resistance against the Japanese. After emerging as the sole survivor of a particularly bloody skirmish, Ahn Jung-geun (Hyun) leads an operation to assassinate Itō Hirobumi, the first Japanese Resident-General in Korea and a key symbol of violent colonial oppression. The operation will require Ahn and his cohort to travel clandestinely to Russia, gathering resources and allies and devising elaborate decoys. With terrifying dangers lurking at every turn, ruthless security forces hot on their heels, and the entire plan under constant threat of collapse, the question arises: how many Koreans must die for their country’s independence?