Blue Swallow is a 2005 South Korean film based on the true story of Park Kyung-won, an early Korean female pilot. The film became controversial when Park's alleged pro-Japanese activities came to light. It was also found that she was not, as the filmmakers had thought, the first female pilot from Korea; this distinction in fact belonged to Kwon Ki-ok of the Republic of China Air Force. Some Koreans protested the movie and called for it not to be released.
Set during the Japanese occupation of Korea in the 1930s, BLUE SWALLOW is an enthusiastic (if surprisingly apolitical) tale of romance and high adventure. Jang Jin-young takes to the skies in this semi-biographical story of Park Kyung-won, a young woman mechanic who joins the army to become a Korean Amelia Earhart. Kyung-won pursues a forbidden romance with a handsome Korean aviator (Kim Joo-hyuk, who starred opposite Jang in the 2003 romantic comedy SINGLES) and goes biplane-to-biplane against Gibe, a Japanese model turned pilot, to see who’ll be top gun. But things go wrong for our lovers as they fall in with anti-Japanese conspirators…The world of the 1930s is lovingly (and impressively) recreated through CGI and set design . Director Yun Jong-chan (who also helmed the 2002 thriller SORUM) worked with Kevin La Rosa (THE FUGITIVE and INDEPENDENCE DAY) to arrange the film’s aerial shots.
Blue Swallow (Korean Movie)
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