Assassination (2015 film)

Assassination (2015 film)

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Assassination
Directed by	Choi Dong-hoon
Produced by	Ahn Soo-hyun Choi Dong-hoon
Written by	Choi Dong-hoon Lee Ki-cheol
Starring	Jun Ji-hyun Lee Jung-jae Ha Jung-woo
Music by	Jang Young-gyu Dalparan
Cinematography	Kim Woo-hyung
Edited by	Shin Min-kyung
Production company	Caper Film
Distributed by	Showbox[1] (South Korea) Well Go USA[2] (USA)
Release dates	July 22, 2015 (2015-07-22) (South Korea) August 7, 2015 (2015-08-07) (United States)
Running time	140 minutes
Country	South Korea
Language	Korean
Budget	US$15.4 million[3]
Box office	US$71 million[4]

Assassination (Hangul: 암살; RR: Amsal) is a 2015 South Korean espionage action film co-written and directed by Choi Dong-hoon.^{[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]}

 

Contents

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• 1 Plot
• 2 Cast
• 3 Box office
• 4 Plagiarism lawsuit
• 5 References
• 6 External links

 

Plot[edit]

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.

Cast[edit]

• Jun Ji-hyun as Ahn Ok-yun/Mitsuko^{[14][15][16][17]}
• Lee Jung-jae as Yeom Seok-jin
• Ha Jung-woo as "Hawaii Pistol"^[18]
• 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
• Han Dong-gyu as Police chief
• Jeong Gi-seop as Military police leader
• Jung In-gyeom as Sasaki
• Lee Hwan as Se-gwang
• Tamura Hiroto as Kimura
• Lee Young-seok as Terauchi Masatake
• Shim Hee-seop as Public prosecutor
• Yoon Jong-gu as Anti-National Crimes Special Committee investigator
• Hong Won-gi as Judge
• Heo Jeong-do as Consulate employee
• Woo Sang-jeon as Ye Wanyong
• Jo Seung-woo as Kim Won-bong (cameo)
• Kim Hae-sook as Cafe Anemone owner (cameo)
• Hong Seong-deok as Dentist
• Kim Joon-woo as Sontag Hotel manager

Box office[edit]

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.^[19] As of August 16, 2015, it has grossed a total of US$71 million from 10.79 million admissions making it the the highest-grossing film of 2015 as well as one of the highest grossing films in Korean cinema history.^[4]

Plagiarism lawsuit[edit]

On August 10, 2015, novelist Choi Jong-rim filed a lawsuit against director Choi Dong-hoon, production company Caper Film and distributor Showbox, alleging that various elements from Assassination, including the setting and the female protagonist, highly resemble those of his book Korean Memories, published in 2003. Choi is seeking ₩10 billion (US$8.5 million) in damages, and an injunction to stop the film from being shown in theaters. Caper Film denied those claims, rebutting that the female character in Choi's novel is not a sniper, and that assassination schemes were common in the anti-Japanese movement.^{[20][21][22][23]}