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Old 06-27-2017, 10:00 AM
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For some exciting views of Japanese and Korean Sengoku era ships in action, I recommend The Admiral: Roaring Currents (The Korean title is Myeongryang - which is the name of the battle depicted in the film, not a literal translation of "roaring currents," which would be something like 갑자기 흐르는 전류 [gapjaki hureuneun jeonryu]).

Here is the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PBIHkKi0wM And a pretty good discussion of the film at Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ad...aring_Currents

Here is a description of the battle of Myeongryang Strait: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Myeongnyang The battle is also described on page 38 of Stephen Turnbull's Fighting Ships of the Far East 2 https://ospreypublishing.com/fighting-ships-of-the-far-east-2This is the second volume of the book mentioned by Papierschnitzel, above.

The Admiral is, of course, Yi Sun Shin, but no turtle ships took part in this particular battle and only one, being destroyed by sabotage, is shown in the film.

My wife and I recently audited a course on Korean cinema at Dickinson College. Roaring Currents was the first of the films we watched as part of the course. Great fun, and a reasonably accurate depiction of the battle, although some of it is rather over the top.

Don
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