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Released
2002 · FILM

2009: Lost Memories

In an alternate 2009 where Korea remains part of Imperial Japan due to a failed 1909 assassination, a Japanese and a Korean cop must navigate political tensions and hidden truths as they investigate a resistance group fighting to restore Korea’s lost history.

“The war has begun!”

Directed by
Si Myung Lee
Written by
Lee Gwang Seop, Si Myung Lee
Runtime
136 min
Language
KO
ActionDramaSci-Fi

Synopsis

There are breakpoints in the history, the result of a single event may change the whole course. In 1909, an assassination attempt of a Japanese governor fails. Now, in 2009, Korea is just another state of Japan's Empire & Seoul has become a major city. A Korean resistance group fights for liberty, independence & the restoration of true history. Two cops, Japanese & Korean, investigate the group.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 25

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Kyung Min HoShot by Park Hyun ChulScored by Lee Dong JunDesigned by Kim Ga Cheol

Box Office

2002 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.7× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$12.0M

Budget$7.0M
Worldwide gross$12.0M
break-even (2.5×)

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