Assassination (2015 film)

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(South Korea) Well Go USA(USA)
Release date	July 22, 2015 (2015-07-22) (South Korea) August 7, 2015 (2015-08-07) (United States) August 27, 2015 (2015-08-27) (Hong Kong)
Running time	140 minutes
Country	South Korea
Language	Korean Japanese Mandarin
Budget	US$16 million
Box office	US$90.9 million

Assassination (Hangul: 암살; Hanja: 暗殺; RR: Amsal) is a 2015 South Korean espionage action film co-written and directed by Choi Dong-hoon.

The film is currently the seventh highest-grossing movie in Korean film history with over 12.7 million admissions.

In 1911, during Japan's rule over Korea, a resistance fighter named Yem Sek-jin tries but fails to murder the governor-general and a pro-Japanese businessman named Kang In-guk. That evening, Kang discovers that his own wife was helping Yem. Kang kills his wife but a wet nurse runs off with one of his twin daughters. By 1933, there are over 30 Korean independence factions operating in Korea, China, and Manchuria. Yem has become a captain in one of these factions, but his colleagues are unaware that he is secretly reporting to the Japanese, since back in 1911 he was tortured by the Japanese into submission.

Yem meets with some Korean politicians in Hangzhou, including Kim Koo and Kim Won-bong, and is asked to gather three delinquent resistance members— Big Gun, Duk-sam, and Ahn Okyun— so they can enter Seoul and assassinate Kang, along with a general named Kawaguchi Mamoru. After bringing them to Shanghai, however, Yeom sells this information to the Japanese. The Japanese attempt to find Ahn, but a skilled contract-killer named Hawaii Pistol decides, on the spur of the moment, to pretend that Ahn is his wife, allowing her to elude the soldiers.