Northern Limit Line

Northern Limit Line (2015) is a South Korean war drama directed by Kim Hak-soon, available to watch online on iFILM. The film reconstructs the morning of June 29, 2002, when a North Korean patrol boat opened fire without warning on the Chamsuree-357 near the maritime boundary in the Yellow Sea — six sailors killed, eighteen wounded, the boat destroyed.

Kim Mu-yeol and Jin-gu play officers on a crew of young men who had spent that same morning watching World Cup matches. Director Kim keeps the geopolitics off-screen and stays close to the people on the boat. That focus on individual lives is what sent it to the top of the South Korean box office in 2015.

Watch Northern Limit Line online on iFILM.