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2009 Lost Memories

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Tue 7 December 2004 // 21:00

2009 LOST MEMORIES
(Lee Sy-myung / Korea / 2002 / 135 mins / 35mm / cert 15)

August 15, 1945, the United Nations of America and Japan win World War II. Following the atomic bombs dropped in Berlin in 1945, Japan and East Asia are united under the name of 'The Japanese Empire'.... Back in the real world, in 1909, Korean nationalist Chung-Gun assassinated Japanese statesman Ito Hirobumi. But in 2009 LOST MEMORIES this event never happened.

Japan is prospering as the second strongest economic nation in the world after the U.S., but anti-governmental terrorist attacks are prevalent all across countries that have been absorbed into the empire. The two JBI (Japanese Bureau of Investigation) agents assigned to deal with the terrorist situation are special agents Masayuki Sakamoto and his close friend Shojiro Saigo. The terrorists believe that the reality they know is in fact an altered one, and they plot to reverse this reality.