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2009 Lost Memories (2002) (Hangul: 2009 로스트 메모리즈) is a South Korean SF action movie, directed by Lee Si-myung.

The film shows an alternate history supposing that Hirobumi Ito was not assassinated by An Jung-geun in Harbin, China, in 1909; this change results in Ito's leadership guiding Japan as a military and industrial power that allies with the United States against Germany in World War II (dropping an atomic bomb on Berlin in 1945) and retains all of its wartime conquests (most notably Korea). Japan joins the permanent U.N. Security Council in 1960, launches the Sakura 1 satellite in 1965 and holds the 1988 Olympics in Nagoya (not Seoul), and Lee Dong-gook scores for (not against) Japan in the 2002 FIFA World Cup Japan (not 2002 FIFA World Cup Korea/Japan).

In light of the influential economic and political shadow that Japan has cast on its neighbors in the real world, the sci-fi film is an evident example of Korean anti-Japanese sentiment. Anti-Americanism is also evident in the film, with the United States allying with the hated Japanese oppressor in World War II, and with the "JBI" (Japanese Bureau of Investigation) heavily modelled on the American FBI.

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