--- title: 'Assassination (2015)' type: 'film' director: 'Choi Dong-hun' released: '2015-07-22' runtime_minutes: 140 genres: - 'Drama' - 'Action' - 'Thriller' countries: - 'South Korea' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/assassination-2015' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3501416/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Assassination (2015) 2015 · 140 min · Drama, Action, Thriller · South Korea Original title: 암살 ## Synopsis Assassination is a 2015 South Korean period spy action thriller film co-written and directed by Choi Dong-hoon. The film, mainly set in 1930s Seoul and Shanghai during the Japanese occupation of Korea, depicts a group of Korean resistance fighters' plan to assassinate a highly ranked Japanese officer. The film drew over 12.7 million admissions, and is currently the twelfth-highest-grossing movie in South Korean film history. Assassination also won Best Film at the 36th Blue Dragon Film Awards and 52nd Baeksang Arts Awards. ## Credits - **Director:** [Choi Dong-hun](https://cinepixo.com/people/choi-dong-hun) - **Screenplay:** [Choi Dong-hun](https://cinepixo.com/people/choi-dong-hun), [Lee Gi-cheol](https://cinepixo.com/people/lee-gi-cheol) - **Original Music Composer:** [Dalpalan](https://cinepixo.com/people/dalpalan) - **Director of Photography:** [Kim Woo-hyung](https://cinepixo.com/people/kim-woo-hyung) ## Cast - [Lee Geung-young](https://cinepixo.com/people/lee-geung-young) as 강인국 - [Ha Jung-woo](https://cinepixo.com/people/ha-jung-woo) as 하와이피스톨 - [Oh Dal-su](https://cinepixo.com/people/oh-dal-su) as 영감 - [Jun Ji-hyun](https://cinepixo.com/people/jun-ji-hyun) as 안옥윤 - [Cho Seung-woo](https://cinepixo.com/people/cho-seung-woo) as Kim Won-bong - [Choi Deok-mun](https://cinepixo.com/people/choi-deok-mun) as 황덕삼 - [Lee Jung-jae](https://cinepixo.com/people/lee-jung-jae) as 염석진 - [Kim Hae-suk](https://cinepixo.com/people/kim-hae-suk) - [Park Byeong-eun](https://cinepixo.com/people/park-byeong-eun) - [Kim Hong-pa](https://cinepixo.com/people/kim-hong-pa) as Kim Ku - [Cho Jin-woong](https://cinepixo.com/people/cho-jin-woong) as 추상옥 ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Official site: http://assassination.kr/ Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/assassination-2015 Film facts: Wikidata (Q19801741); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.