The Battleship Island

The Battleship Island

1945 Hashima. We called it hell on earth.

2017132 min7.2 / 10

A harrowing historical drama about Korean forced laborers' desperate bid for freedom from a brutal island prison during Japanese occupation.

During the Japanese colonial era, roughly 400 Korean people, who were forced onto Battleship Island 'Hashima Island' to mine for coal, attempt to escape.

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