Harbin Film is a film production company founded by LEE Jin-sook in 2015 in order to co-produce (with Dark Circle Pictures and Warner Bros.) her project, <The Age of Shadows> (2016). It was named after the Chinese city of Harbin, a major hub in Manchuria, since LEE found inspiration for the film while scouting the region in search of local unsung heroes. Dandong, a Chinese city bordering North Korea where the cohabitation of Chinese people of Korean descent, North Korea...More

Harbin Film is a film production company founded by LEE Jin-sook in 2015 in order to co-produce (with Dark Circle Pictures and Warner Bros.) her project, <The Age of Shadows> (2016). It was named after the Chinese city of Harbin, a major hub in Manchuria, since LEE found inspiration for the film while scouting the region in search of local unsung heroes. Dandong, a Chinese city bordering North Korea where the cohabitation of Chinese people of Korean descent, North Korean refugees and South Korean expatriates creates tensions, reminded her of another time of mutual mistrust between Koreans, the Japanese Colonization of Korean. She later found out about a Korean-ethnic Japanese police officer who was arrested in 1923 for having helped independence fighters smuggle explosives through the border in Dandong, a forgotten historical event that she eventually decided to use as base for a movie. <The Age of Shadows>, which was helmed by acclaimed director KIM Jee-woon, released to wide acclaim from the critics and welcomed 7.5 million spectators in Korea.Less