[Eagle of Wild Field] is Im Kwon-taek’s Manchurian Western of twisted desire, bloody revenge and the cathartic actions. A man’s family’s been slaughtered in his absence by Japanese soldiers and he spends 20 years planning his revenge with hope that one photo will lead him to his vengeance. On the other hand, his son is raised by Japanese soldiers to hunt down the army for national independence. The father must confront his son in the final showdown. Movies set in Manchurian plains during the early 1960s describing battles between Japanese and independence armies changed into Manchurian Western from mid 1960s as a lone wanderer fights against a group of antagonists. [Eagle of Wild Field] describes the tragic history of an individual during the Japanese colonial occupation carefully combining the action genre with Western. (CHO Young-jung)