Collection Historical Content 2026.08.18

The Era of Pro-Japanese Collaboration: Movies and Dramas That Split Families

Content that reads family conflicts in works without mistaking them for real families

#Pro-Japanese Figures #Family History #Historical Drama #Period Drama #Film Drama

Historical dramas dealing with pro-Japanese collaboration and independence movements often condense vast histories into the conflicts of a single family. The scenario of a father collaborating with colonial power while his child resists, or siblings choosing different paths of survival and independence, vividly illustrates the cost of choices. However, the strong characters can sometimes lead us to mistakenly remember fictional families as real historical figures.

This list compiles actual movies and dramas that depict the era of pro-Japanese collaboration through family and the fractures within it. It strictly distinguishes between fictional characters and actors and real historical figures, examining what choices led to conflicts. After viewing, it's essential to check event timelines and official records to ensure that dramatic adaptations don't misrepresent historical facts.

Assassination (암살)

Assassination

Assassination is a 2015 film that centers on the relationship between Kang In-guk and his twin daughters, Ahn Ok-yoon and Mitsuko. When watching this fictional narrative where the wealth accumulated through pro-Japanese collaboration directly clashes with the choice of independence movement within a family, it's crucial to interpret pro-Japanese collaboration and resistance as actions taken by the characters rather than as inherent traits. Although set against the backdrop of the real independence movement era, characters and family relationships should be distinguished as cinematic creations. Avoid linking the personal family histories of the actors with their roles, and verifying the events depicted in the work through public timelines and records can help distinguish dramatic adaptations from historical facts.

형식 2015년 영화 작품 속 가족 강인국과 쌍둥이 딸 안옥윤·미츠코 감상 포인트 한 집안 안에서 친일로 축적한 부와 독립운동의 선택이 정면으로 갈라지는 허구 서사 사실 구분 실존 독립운동의 시대를 배경으로 하지만 인물과 가족관계는 영화적 창작으로 구분해야 한다.

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Mr. Sunshine (미스터 션샤인)

Mr. Sunshine

Mr. Sunshine is a 2018 tvN drama that centers on the relationship between Lee Wan-ik and his daughter Kudo Hina. When viewing this fictional narrative, which shows the tension between a father who entrusts the country by relying on power and a daughter who resists in her own way, it's essential to read pro-Japanese collaboration and resistance as actions taken by the characters rather than as inherent traits. Lee Wan-ik in the drama is a creative character that condenses historical pro-Japanese elements, and shouldn’t be conflated with the real person Lee Wan-yong. Avoid linking the personal family histories of the actors with their roles, and verifying the events depicted in the work through public timelines and records can help distinguish dramatic adaptations from historical facts.

형식 2018년 tvN 드라마 작품 속 가족 이완익과 딸 쿠도 히나 감상 포인트 권력에 기대 나라를 넘기는 아버지와 자기 방식으로 저항하는 딸의 긴장을 보여주는 허구 서사 사실 구분 극 중 이완익은 역사적 친일 세력을 압축한 창작 인물이며 실존 인물 이완용과 동일시하면 안 된다.

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Gyeongseong Scandal (경성스캔들)

Gyeongseong Scandal

Gyeongseong Scandal is a 2007 KBS drama centered on the relationship between Sunwoo Wan and his pro-Japanese father. When watching this narrative work that depicts the transformation of a youth from a wealthy family in colonial Gyeongseong meeting the independence movement, it’s significant to interpret pro-Japanese collaboration and resistance as actions taken by the characters rather than as inherent traits. The character's family history is a plot setting, and it should not generalize all privileged classes in the same manner. Avoid linking the personal family histories of the actors with their roles, and verifying the events depicted in the work through public timelines and records can help distinguish dramatic adaptations from historical facts.

형식 2007년 KBS 드라마 작품 속 가족 선우완과 친일 성향의 아버지 집안 감상 포인트 식민지 경성의 부유한 집안에서 성장한 청년이 독립운동과 만나며 달라지는 과정을 그린 서사 사실 구분 인물의 가족사는 드라마 설정이며 당시 모든 부유층을 같은 방식으로 일반화해서는 안 된다.

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Gaksital (각시탈)

Gaksital

Gaksital is a 2012 KBS drama that focuses on the relationship between Lee Kang-to and his brother Lee Kang-san. When viewing this narrative that illustrates the diverging choices within a single family, with the younger brother becoming a Japanese police officer and the elder brother devoted to the independence movement, it's important to interpret pro-Japanese collaboration and resistance as actions taken by the characters rather than as inherent traits. The original manga and drama's characters are fictional, and the work should not be read as autobiographical accounts of actual police officers or independence activists. Avoid linking the personal family histories of the actors with their roles, and verifying the events depicted in the work through public timelines and records can help distinguish dramatic adaptations from historical facts.

형식 2012년 KBS 드라마 작품 속 가족 이강토와 형 이강산 감상 포인트 일제 경찰이 된 동생과 독립운동에 몸을 던진 형을 통해 같은 가족 안의 엇갈린 선택을 보여주는 서사 사실 구분 원작 만화와 드라마의 허구 인물이며 실제 경찰·독립운동가 개인의 전기로 읽는 작품은 아니다.

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Land (토지)

Land

Land is a 2004 SBS drama that focuses on the relationship between the Jo Jun-gu family and the Choi Cham-pan family. When viewing this grand narrative that shows how characters chasing wealth and power adapt to colonial order and the rise and fall of their households over time, it is essential to read pro-Japanese collaboration and resistance as actions taken by the characters rather than as inherent traits. Although reading the era's structure through the fictional family created by Park Kyung-ri, one must not accept this as a record of a specific real family. Avoid linking the personal family histories of the actors with their roles, and verifying the events depicted in the work through public timelines and records can help distinguish dramatic adaptations from historical facts.

형식 2004년 SBS 드라마 작품 속 가족 조준구 집안과 최참판댁 감상 포인트 재산과 권력을 좇는 인물들이 식민지 질서에 적응하는 방식과 집안의 흥망을 장기적으로 보여주는 대하서사 사실 구분 박경리 원작의 허구 가문을 통해 시대 구조를 읽되 특정 실존 가문의 기록으로 받아들이지 않아야 한다.

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Seoul 1945 (서울 1945)

Seoul 1945

Seoul 1945 is a 2006 KBS drama that centers on the relationships among four youths and their families from different social classes before and after liberation. When watching this period drama that deals with how pro-Japanese collaboration, independence, and left-right ideologies create rifts in personal love and family survival, it's crucial to interpret these actions as choices made by the characters rather than as inherent traits. Since this work dramatizes the complex atmosphere of liberation, it's necessary to separately verify character choices and actual historical events. Avoid linking the personal family histories of the actors with their roles, and verifying the events depicted in the work through public timelines and records can help distinguish dramatic adaptations from historical facts.

형식 2006년 KBS 드라마 작품 속 가족 해방 전후 서로 다른 계층의 네 청춘과 가족 감상 포인트 친일·독립·좌우 이념이 개인의 사랑과 집안의 생존에 어떤 균열을 만드는지 다룬 시대극 사실 구분 복합적인 해방정국을 극화한 작품이므로 인물의 선택과 실제 역사 사건을 나누어 확인하는 감상이 필요하다.

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Modern Boy (모던보이)

Modern Boy

Modern Boy is a 2008 film that focuses on the relationship between the Governor-General's secretary Lee Hae-myung and his beloved Jo Nan-sil. When viewing this narrative that depicts the process of a youth who takes colonial privilege for granted facing his lover's secrets and anti-Japanese movement, it’s critical to interpret pro-Japanese collaboration and resistance as actions taken by the characters rather than as inherent traits. The main characters are those created by the novel and film and do not explain the changes of an entire colonial bureaucracy as a single person's transformation. Avoid linking the personal family histories of the actors with their roles, and verifying the events depicted in the work through public timelines and records can help distinguish dramatic adaptations from historical facts.

형식 2008년 영화 작품 속 가족 총독부 서기관 이해명과 조난실 감상 포인트 식민지 특권을 당연하게 여기던 청년이 연인의 비밀과 항일운동을 마주하며 흔들리는 과정을 그린 서사 사실 구분 주요 인물은 소설과 영화가 만든 인물이며 식민지 관료 전체를 한 사람의 변화로 설명하지 않는다.

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Mugunghwa Flower (녹두꽃)

Mugunghwa Flower Has Bloomed

Mugunghwa Flower Has Bloomed is a 2019 SBS drama focused on the relationship between the Baek family and the half-brothers Baek Yi-gang and Baek Yi-hyun. When watching this narrative that portrays the rift between the vested rights of a family and the choices of two brothers during the Donghak Peasant Revolution and Japanese military intervention, it's important to interpret pro-Japanese collaboration and resistance as actions taken by the characters rather than as inherent traits. Rather than simplistically applying the category of pro-Japanese collaborators to all characters based on hindsight, it's vital to follow the choices depicted in the work. Avoid linking the personal family histories of the actors with their roles, and verifying the events depicted in the work through public timelines and records can help distinguish dramatic adaptations from historical facts.

형식 2019년 SBS 드라마 작품 속 가족 백가네와 이복형제 백이강·백이현 감상 포인트 동학농민혁명과 일본군 개입 속에서 한 집안의 기득권과 두 형제의 선택이 갈라지는 과정을 다룬 서사 사실 구분 친일파라는 후대의 범주를 인물 모두에게 단순 적용하기보다 작품이 보여주는 선택의 변화를 따라가야 한다.

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In these works, pro-Japanese figures can easily be simplified into villains, but real collaboration occurred across various fields such as bureaucracy, police, media, economy, and culture. Conversely, resistance figures did not always live as perfect heroes. Even if the contrasts within a single family help with understanding, many miss the broader picture when they accept that structure as explaining the entire colonial society.

There is no link between the characters played by actors and the actors' personal family histories. We should not infer actual families solely based on shared surnames of characters. After watching the work, curious viewers should verify real individuals and events through pro-Japanese anti-national activity investigation reports, honorary records of independence activists, and contemporary newspapers and judicial documents. By maintaining the boundary between fiction and records, period dramas can become a starting point for discussing historical choices rather than sensational stigmas.

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Assassination (암살)

2015년 영화 · 강인국과 쌍둥이 딸 안옥윤·미츠코 · 한 집안 안에서 친일로 축적한 부와 독립운동의 선택이 정면으로 갈라지는 허구 서사 · 실존 독립운동의 시대를 배경으로 하지만 인물과 가족관계는 영화적 창작으로 구분해야 한다.

Mr. Sunshine (미스터 션샤인)

2018년 tvN 드라마 · 이완익과 딸 쿠도 히나 · 권력에 기대 나라를 넘기는 아버지와 자기 방식으로 저항하는 딸의 긴장을 보여주는 허구 서사 · 극 중 이완익은 역사적 친일 세력을 압축한 창작 인물이며 실존 인물 이완용과 동일시하면 안 된다.

Gyeongseong Scandal (경성스캔들)

2007년 KBS 드라마 · 선우완과 친일 성향의 아버지 집안 · 식민지 경성의 부유한 집안에서 성장한 청년이 독립운동과 만나며 달라지는 과정을 그린 서사 · 인물의 가족사는 드라마 설정이며 당시 모든 부유층을 같은 방식으로 일반화해서는 안 된다.

Gaksital (각시탈)

2012년 KBS 드라마 · 이강토와 형 이강산 · 일제 경찰이 된 동생과 독립운동에 몸을 던진 형을 통해 같은 가족 안의 엇갈린 선택을 보여주는 서사 · 원작 만화와 드라마의 허구 인물이며 실제 경찰·독립운동가 개인의 전기로 읽는 작품은 아니다.

Land (토지)

2004년 SBS 드라마 · 조준구 집안과 최참판댁 · 재산과 권력을 좇는 인물들이 식민지 질서에 적응하는 방식과 집안의 흥망을 장기적으로 보여주는 대하서사 · 박경리 원작의 허구 가문을 통해 시대 구조를 읽되 특정 실존 가문의 기록으로 받아들이지 않아야 한다.

Seoul 1945 (서울 1945)