Desperate to return home alive, Thingy (comedian Kim Min-Sang) survives by his wits, using his fast-moving mouth to get him out of dead-end situations and suicide missions. Thingy (so poor he doesn’t even have a name) is a Goguryeo farmer conscripted into the Shilla army after they destroy his farm and he’s the everyman figure who plods through the battlefields, fully aware that war is for the rich because for the poor, nothing ever changes. 668 AD – Korea is caught between two warring kingdoms: Shilla and Goguryeo. The absurdities of war, and the pomposity of most historical movies, are over-inflated targets that are gleefully pricked in this mud-spattered absurdist comedy from Lee Joon-Ik, Korea’s greatest historical movie maker and the man who directed King & Clown, the most successful Korean movie of all time. Set in 668 AD, Battlefield Heroes follows everyman Thingy as he plods through the battlefields, fully aware that war is for the rich because for the poor, nothing ever changes.
In this mud-splattered absurdist comedy, Korea is caught between two warring kingdoms.
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