Assassination - 암살 (2015 Korean film)

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 office

Opening 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.

★ 영화 [암살] 설민석의 스페셜 인강 ★

Data from the Internet, composed by ISGS - August 15, 2015