NO IDEA WHAT MAKES SENSE
For the love of christ can someone ease my head by explaining the whole dam plot to me.
shareI'll try. But it's gonna be long.
Original Time:
Sakamoto and Oh Hye-Rin are researchers who have discovered the Lunar Soul. Somehow, Inoue kidnaps Hye-Rins and kills the other researchers with the original Sakamoto before entering a strange path of light.
Introduction:
A Japanese soldier, who turns out to be Inoue, wounds An Jung-geun during an attempt to kill Ito Hirobumi. An was eventually killed by other Imperial Army soldiers.
Pagoda House was occupied as a show of force agaisnt occupation. All were killed to death by soldiers, ending any other attempts to form any kind of any anti-occupation sentiment.
Japan goes with Allied Forces in WWII and supported US efforts to bomb Germany. Japan is a permament member in UN Security Council, Olympics in Nagoya in 1988 and 2002 World Cup in Japan.
Japan still controlled Eastern China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Brunei at the end of WWII as part of the Japanese Empire (HINT: See the map of Southeast Asia at the JBI's Command Center. Countries that have a white color indicates that it's still under Japanese control). Strange enough that Burma, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and East Timor were never controlled at the alternate timeline.
Movie:
Armed gunmen, said to be part of the Chosun Liberation Army, storm an Inoue Foundation party and barricade everyone in a room somewhere while they barricade themselves in the main hall. Masayuki Sakamoto (Korean-Japanese) and Saigo Shijiro are two of the Japanese Bureau of Investigation (JBI)'s finest as they storm the place with JBI SWAT teams. Eventually, most of the terrorists were killed when one of them take a JBI agent at gunpoint.
The hostage taker, revealing himself as Kim Jung Hwan, taunts Sakamoto for turning his back to his fellow Koreans. Sakamoto ignores him and wounds him. JBI SWAT units shoot him to death.
JBI finds out that the armed gunmen were members of Huireisenjin (Furei Senjin in some versions. Meaning Chosun Liberation Confederation) and were after a strange moon-like object. Sakamoto began to remember visions of the same object and a woman being taken at gunpoint before he (Sakamoto) was supposed to be shot. This implied that in parts of the Japanese Empire, the Huireisenjin is a part of various anti-Japanese nationalist terrorist groups that are fighting for their own independence. When he showed a photo of a dead tango with a moon-like object, his suppressed vision of the same object and a woman began to resurface, which is key to understanding the entire movie.
When he speaks with Shojiro during a visit, he tells Sakamoto about Inoue's obssessions on a rock (HINT: Sakamoto's vision?).
Sakamoto and Shojiro visit the curator of the museum that the terrorists have attacked recently, informing them that plainclothed police have escorted the truck convoy carrying the moon-shaped object to Pusan Harbor. Another Huireisenjin guerilla attack party ambushes the convoy, attacks the lead car with a Stinger and guns down the truck drivers and their police escorts, securing the moon-like object (HINT: Sorry for explaining the "name" of the object. I'll tell you the rest later). The two JBI agents rush to the rescue, only to have their car destroyed by a Stinger. Sakamoto, for the first time, finally sees the woman that has been haunting his dreams.
Captured earlier by Huireisenjin guerillas while visiting the Korean district, they accuse Sakamoto of being a pro-Japanese supporter while Sakamoto blames them for being crooks. The woman (HINT: Remember Oh Hye-Rin!) scorns Sakamoto for stabbing his fellow Koreans at their backs.
Later on, Sakamoto investigates some Inoue Foundation officials, but he was looked down by the chairman for his father, who was accussed of being corrupt and of being a pro-Huireisenjin supporter. This infuriates Sakamoto and Saigo begins to worry about him. During the investigation in Harbin, Sakamoto was told by a local that the terrorists were after the Lunar Soul, which was said to be a mythical time travelling device.
Sakamoto begins to investigate futher into the case and was suspended by JBI officials for not telling him of his plans (Unofficially, they were getting worried over his actions). Takahashi, a friend of Masayuki's father of Korean descent, warns him to back off the case for now. When Takahashi was killed, Seoul Police blame him for being the main suspect. Sakamoto soon thinks that his colleague, Hideyo, was the assassin who wanted to kill him. He snatches a policeman's pistol and shoots him in the head. His colleagues had realized that Sakamoto had gone rogue from his action. Shojiro helps him out, but tells him that the two will be adversaries. Sakamoto escapes from the JBI Seoul HQ building and heads to the Huireisenjin's front (HINT: Bar where the two JBI agents had visited for first time). The guerillas finally accepted him as their own.
An old man tells Sakamoto the real reason why his superiors and colleagues in the JBI are after him and his links to the woman from his dreams (HINT: Vision as main clue with history of Ito's supposed death until supposed reunification). Sakamoto, at first, finds it hard to believe him. The man consoles him by telling him that he felt the same way when he first heard it as well. This implies that the Huireisenjin has fought Japanese occupation ever since the end of WWII.
JBI SWAT teams have raided the bar. A waiter (A supposed pro-Huireisenjin fighter) explains that they have entered the bar, but Sakamoto's ex-boss shoots him with a single Desert Eagle bullet, showing that he wanted to get rid of the guerillas.
When the Huireisenjin realizes that the base was breached by JBI teams and agents, they all tried to escape, but their numbers began to rapidly decrease from deaths. Sakamoto tried to save a child (Minjae) from being killed until his boss shows up to shoot the kid with his Desert Eagle. Sakamoto realizes that his comrades were now using brutal methods for their means. He kills several of them with an MP5 before escaping with the woman to Pusan Harbor. The old man, who tried to commit suicide, was shot to death before he could pull the pistol's trigger. The other, was fatally shot and killed by a Desert Eagle. He dropped an M68 frag grenade, which blew up a weapons cache inside the room. The explosion aftermath kills all JBI tactical teams and damages a squad car that cordoned a street near the bar.
Sakamoto and Hye-Rin enter the ship after infiltrating Pusan Harbor and plant the Lunar Soul, but security agents and JBI tactical teams enter the cargo hold, with Shojiro leading. He was told by his superior that he should prevent Sakamoto from stopping Inoue from stopping An Jung-geun. Saigo was also told that the Inoue Foundation was created in order to destroy all traces leading to the Lunar Soul and that only officials in the JBI and the Foundation knew about Inoue's "stunt" when right-wing groups ordered him to stop An Jung-geun again in the original timeline. The chief even tried to shake Saigo's morale by telling him that he may never see his family again. He tells the chief that he won't allow Sakamoto to change history.
Hye-Rin dies from a single bullet fired from Shojiro's gun during the gun battle inside the ship, but Sakamoto enters the portal leading back to the early 20th century in Harbin, China. Shojiro follows him and tries to stop him, but is shot in the stomach.
When Sakamoto got to the train station, he saw An rushing towards Hirobumi. (HINT: No one bothers to see why Sakamoto has "strange" clothes) Inoue, who earlier killed an Imperial Army soldier in order to steal his uniform, raises his pistol (HINT: Watch the intro in order to understand this scene). Sakamoto aims his Beretta 92F at him, only to see Shojiro appear from behind the Imperial honor guard to fire his Glock 17. Shojiro then aims his weapon at An, only to be shot by Sakamoto after he killed Inoue. An proceeds to gun down Hirobumi and his entourage.
As a act of reconciliation, Shojiro raises his hand to Sakamoto, but does not accept it. It's possible that he died on the spot.
Later, Sakamoto prepares to plant dynamite near the rock that had the implanted Lunar Soul. He sees Hye Rin, in her original state, and smiles at her.
Epilogue:
North and South Korea were finally reunited. A tour group looks around the memorial until a little girl looks at the picture of Hye-Rin and Sakamoto are now dressed in fatigues, indicating that the two fought on in WWII and the Korean Liberation War as anti-Japanese guerillas.
She smiled when she saw their happy faces.
Time was now restored, though Hye-Rin and Sakamoto never got back to their original world and lives (e.g. Think it was early 21st century).