The General in Red Robes

The General in Red Robes

1973 · ★ 8.0 · History

General Kwak, despite having retired from military service, organizes a small army to resist the onslaught of an invasion from Japan in the early Chosun Dynasty

Directed by Lee Doo-yong

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