Assassination - 암살 (2015 Korean film)
Directed by
| Choi Dong-hoon |
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| Produced by | Ahn Soo-hyun
Choi Dong-hoon |
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| Written by | Choi Dong-hoon
Lee Ki-cheol |
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| Starring | Jun Ji-hyun
Lee Jung-jae
Ha Jung-woo |
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| Music by | Jang Young-gyu
Dalparan |
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| Cinematography | Kim Woo-hyung |
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| Edited by | Shin Min-kyung |
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Production
company | Caper Film |
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| Distributed by | Showbox (South Korea)
Well Go USA (USA) |
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Release dates | - July 22, 2015
(South Korea) - August 7, 2015
(United States)
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Running time | 140 minutes |
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| Country | South Korea |
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| Language | Korean |
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| Budget | US$15.4 million |
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| Box office | US$59.9 million |
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Cast
- Jun Ji-hyun as Ahn Ok-yun/Mitsuko
- Lee Jung-jae as Yeom Seok-jin
- Ha Jung-woo as "Hawaii Pistol"
- Oh Dal-su as "Old Man"
- Cho Jin-woong as Chu Sang-ok ("Rapid-fire Big Gun")
- Lee Geung-young as Kang In-gook
- Choi Deok-moon as Hwang Deok-sam
- Kim Eui-sung as Butler of Kang family
- Park Byung-eun as Kawaguchi Shunsuke
- Jin Kyung as Ahn Seong-sim
- Heo Ji-won as Myeong-woo
- Kim Hong-pa as Kim Koo
- Jung Gyu-soo as Hunchback
- Kim Kang-woo as Special investigator
- Shim Cheol-jong as Kawaguchi Mamoru
Box officeOpening on 1,260 screens on July 22, 2015, Assassination earned ₩3.59 billion (US$3.08 million) from 478,000 admissions. It was the best opening day for a local film in 2015 and the second best opening day overall in Korea behind Avengers: Age of Ultron. As of August 9 (19 days after its release), it had grossed ₩69.8 billion (US$59.9 million) from 8.97 million admissions, and is expected to pass the ten million admissions mark. Plot and Story Set in the 1930s during Japan's colonial rule of Korea, many Korean resistance activists are based in Manchuria, northeastern China while hiding from Japanese authorities. In 1933, orders are given to assassinate Kawaguchi Mamoru, the governor of the Japanese garrison in Gyeongseong, and Kang In-gook, a pro-Japanese Korean business tycoon. For this covert mission, Yeom Seok-jin, an agent of the provisional Korean government who had broken out of prison in 1911, meets with three people in Shanghai: topnotch sniper Ahn Ok-yun, explosives expert Hwang Deok-sam and his cellmate Chu Sang-ok. The squad arrives in Gyeongseong, not knowing that one of them is secretly working for the Japanese and has hired freelance assassin Hawaii Pistol and his sidekick Old Man to kill members of the team.
Data from the Internet, composed by SNUMA WM - August 15, 2015 |
This movie is being run in all American movie houses.
I saw this one two days ago in a local AMC theater.
I learned a few things that I didn't know about Korean independece movements
during the Japanese occupation of Korea.
These Korean fighters in China and Manchuria should get the full credit for the birth of ROK.
Instead, sadly to have realized was that Sungman Rhee, nothing but an U.S. puppet came as the first president,
got th most of the credit, while holding hands with pro-Japanese people during these days,
and killed or removed a bunch of these fighters. (Kim Koo is one example here.)
Not only that, Sungman Rhee also de-emphasized and erased much of the history of these independence fighters
to keep his monopoly on the credit of establishing of Republic of Korea.
That's why we know so little about this independence movements.
Sungman Rhee and his party kept these stories away from Koreans.
Rhee isn't the father of ROK as some pro-Japanese people are trying to say.
You will see the true fathers and mothers of ROK in this movie.