R-Point (2004)

July, 1971, somewhere deep in the Vietnamese countryside. Of the 18 U.S.-allied Korean soldiers sent into the area designated Romeo Point on a scouting mission, only one, struck blind and traumatized, survives. Six months later, however, the voices of the missing unit have been mysteriously picked up by the intelligence service’s radios. Another team, this time eight men, is likewise sent to the ominous R-Point, around which certain uncomfortable rumours seem to circulate. At the head of the team is Choi Tae-in, himself also the sole survivor of another battle. Guilt, and a deeper, murkier sense of unease, quietly plague Choi as he and his troops pass the stone that marks the entrance to R-Point—the point of no return. The stone reads, "He who sheds others’ blood will not return, not even his soul." The skies darken as the men move toward the desolate, abandoned temple that they believe will provide them with shelter…