Musa
Director: Kim Sung-soo, Kim Seong-soo
Genre: Wuxia, Action, Drama, History, War, Action/Adventure, Martial arts, World cinema
Year: 2001
Country: South Korea
Language: Standard Mandarin, Korean Language
Starring: Zhang Ziyi, Ahn Sung-ki, Jung Woo-sung, Ju Jin-mo, Yong-woo Park, Jeong-hak Park, Hye-jin Yu, Seok-yong Jeong, Du-il Lee, Yeong-mok Han
Musa (武士, 무사, Musa), released as The Warrior in English-speaking countries, is a 2001 South Korean epic film directed by Kim Seong-soo, starring Jung Woo-sung, Ahn Sung-ki, Ju Jin-mo and Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi. The semi-historical story follows the adventures of a Korean peace delegation as they try to get back to Korea through the inhospitable deserts of northern China.
The film is regarded as being one of the biggest motion pictures in the history of Korean cinema. At the time of its production its budget was the largest ever for a Korean film. It features a high degree of historical accuracy in period costumery, props, settings, and most uniquely, language; that is, everyone speaks in their native tongues or through an interpreter conversant in a lingua franca.
In the 14th century, a failed Korean political envoy attempts to rescue a Ming princess from Mongols in an effort to save Korea's relationship with China.
In 1375, a small political envoy travels to China to meet the Ming Emperor. Mistaken for spies, the envoy is arrested. Their prisoner transport is attacked by Mongol marauders, who kill the Chinese guards and allow the Koreans to live. All the Korean ambassadors
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