History Film / SteelRain

''Steel Rain'' is a 2017 South Korean action thriller film directed by Yang Woo-suk, based on his [[Website/{{Webtoon}} webtoon]] of the same name.

* TheGenerationGap: Eom is furious when his daughter asks him about [[Music/BigBang G-Dragon]], as listening to foreign music could get them all arrested. Later Kwak plays some G-Dragon and when Eom says he doesn't understand the lyrics Kwak just laughs and says it's the same for him, but he's learned to just roll with it.

* EvilVersusEvil: The coup leaders argue that UsefulNotes/TheRulersOfNorthKorea have been dragging out the stalemate on the Korean peninsula for decades and purged hundreds of loyal officers purely to maintain their own power. On the other hand, the rogue officers are willing to start a war purely to legitimise their own regime change.

* AssassinationAttempt: North Korean commandoes seize an [[MacrossMissileMassacre MLRS launcher]] in South Korea and firing it at a RibbonCuttingCeremony where Kim Jong Un is opening a Chinese-built factory. However before the renegade troops can move in and finish him off, Eom (who's there to assassinate General Byung-jin, who never shows up) throws his wounded leader into a van and [[SpannerInTheWorks takes him across the border to South Korea]].

* DramaticAmmoDepletion: During the hospital battle [[spoiler:the assassin engages in a GunKata battle with Eom, then tries to shoot the figure lying on a hospital gurney only to find he's used his last bullet. He tries to grab a scalpel only to be tackled by Eom. But then he's able to get hold of Eom's gun and fires the last bullet into the patient...only to pull back the sheet and discover he's shot a [[SleepingDummy corpse that's been left there as a decoy]]. South Korean special forces then burst into the room. Having failed his mission, the assassin releases the slide to [[SuicideByCop make it look like the pistol is loaded and turns to face them]].]]

* RogueAgent: The invoked version; Chief Director Ri recruits Eom for the assassinations because he no longer works for him and can be disavowed if he fails.

* RunForTheBorder: When the coup starts, the Chinese officials at the RibbonCuttingCeremony jump in their cars and race for the border to get out of the country, using their financial and diplomatic muscle to get someone in authority to order the border guards on both sides to let them through. Eom and a couple of factory workers throw their leader in the back of a van stuffed with Chinese toy pandas and follow them all the way across, though a truckload of soldiers tries to intercept them.

** The North Koreans detonate a nuke over the Sea of Japan to knock out an incoming US nuclear strike.

** This turned out to be the war scenario developed by RNK. Launch a nuclear missile to knock out South Korea's high-tech weapons, then send in thousands of special forces to attack and seize US army bases to take their soldiers prisoner to force the United States to the bargaining table.

* TheGenerationGap: Eom is furious when his daughter asks him about [[Music/BigBang G-Dragon]], as listening to foreign music could get them all arrested. Later Kwak plays some G-Dragon for Eom and when Eom says he doesn't understand it Kwak just laughs and says it's the same for him, but he's learned to just roll with it.

* SecretUndergroundPassage: Massive tunnels dug for the invasion of the South are used by the commandoes who seize the missile launcher. When Eom crosses back into his country, he passes hundreds of North Korean soldiers marching down the tunnel in the opposite direction.

* TwoKeyedLock: Eom removes what looks like a smart watch from Number One's wrist. When examined by South Korean intelligence, they find it's heavily encoded. Turns it's the second code generator needed to launch North Korea's nuclear arsenal, which the coup leader only finds out about after seizing the first code generator. [[spoiler:So he has military hackers break the codes of the individual nukes and is able to launch one of them that way. However Eom pretends he's stolen the watch and brings it back to him; it's been replaced with a TrackingDevice enabling an airstrike to be called in on the coup leader's secret bunker.]]

* AssassinationAttempt: North Korean commandoes seize an [[MacrossMissileMassacre MLRS launcher]] in South Korea and firing it at a RibbonCuttingCeremony where Kim Jong Un is opening a Chinese-built factory. However before the renegade troops can move in and finish him off, Eom (who's there to assassinate General Byung-jin, who never shows up throws his wounded leader into a van and takes him across the border to South Korea, putting a SpannerInTheWorks.

Eom Chul-Woo, a North Korean special forces operative who has been retired for medical reasons, is approached by his former superior, Chief Director Ri Tae-han and ordered to assassinate [[PraetorianGuard Supreme Guard Command]] chief Park Byung-jin, who is plotting a MilitaryCoup. Meanwhile across the border in South Korea another Chul-Woo (first name Kwak) works as a senior presidential secretary in the Blue House and is helping usher in a change of government. However before the term of office of the previous President ends, word arrives of an AssassinationAttempt on the leader of North Korea using a hijacked US Army MRLS system. Fate will bring the two Chul-Woo's together as they work to avoid a second Korean War, this time involving nuclear weapons.

Eom Chul-Woo, a North Korean special forces operative who has been retired for medical reasons, is approached by his former superior, Chief Director Ri Tae-han. Eom is ordered to assassinate [[PraetorianGuard Supreme Guard Command]] chief Park Byung-jin, who is plotting a MilitaryCoup. Meanwhile across the border in South Korea another Chul-Woo (first name Kwak) works as a senior presidential secretary in the Blue House and is helping usher in a change of government. However before the term of office of the previous President ends, word arrives of an AssassinationAttempt on the leader of North Korea using a hijacked US Army MRLS system. Fate will bring the two Chul-Woo's together as they work to avoid a second Korean War, this time involving nuclear weapons.

''Steel Rain'' is a 2017 South Korean action thriller film directed by Creator/YangWoo-suk, based on his [[Website/{{Webtoon}} webtoon]] of the same name.

* RaceToTheBorder:

* RaceForTheBorder:

* BringMeMyRedJacket: A cluster munition airbursts above hundreds of female factory workers in red parkas waiting to greet Kim Jong Un. This allows a GoryDiscretionShot when they [[DeathFromAbove collapse en masse]].

* DueToTheDead: After killing the North Korean operative in the hospital, Eom puts a coat over the man who in different circumstances would have been a fellow soldier.

* DueToTheDead: After killing the North Korean operative in the hospital, Eom puts a coat over the man who in different circumstances would have been a fellow soldier.

* BaitAndSwitch: [[spoiler:The editing makes it look like Byung-jin is ordering the operation to launch the coup. What he's actually doing is activating the entire Supreme Guard Command to secure the capital and ''prevent'' the coup succeeding, which he does [[NiceJobBreakingItHero until Eom assassinates him]].]]