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 currtly the eighth-highest-grossing movie in Korean film history. Assassination also won Best Film at the 36th Blue Dragon Film Awards and 52nd Baeksang Arts Awards.
In 1911, during Japan's rule over Korea, a resistance fighter named Yem Sek-jin tries but fails to murder the governor-geral along with a pro-Japanese businessman named Kang In-guk. That eving, Kang discovers that his own wife was helping Yem, and kills her. In response, the wet nurse runs off with one of Kang's twin daughters. By 1933, there are over 30 Korean indepdce 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 delinqut resistance members—Big Gun, Duk-sam, and Ahn Okyun—so they can ter Seoul and assassinate Kang, along with a geral named Kawaguchi Mamoru. After bringing them to Shanghai, however, Yem 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 momt, to pretd that Ahn is his wife, allowing her to elude the soldiers.
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Kim Koo questions Yem's loyalty, and tells two subordinates, Myung-woo and Se-gwang, to follow him around, and to kill him if he is a spy. However, wh they follow him to his meeting with Hawaii Pistol, Yem manages to kill them in the suing gun fight. Yem meets with Hawaii Pistol and hires him to intercept and kill the three resistance members, lying to Hawaii Pistol by saying that they are Japanese spies. Yem anticipates a great reward from the Japanese. As Hawaii Pistol and his assistant Buddy travel to Seoul, they befrid Kawaguchi's son, who is a lieutant in the Kwantung Army. In Seoul, Hawaii Pistol locates Big Gun and shoots him as he is running. With Big Gun missing, Duk-sam and Ahn proceed with the operation, hoping to ambush their targets at a gas station. To their misfortune, the car is a decoy and both Duk-sam and Korean sympathizer Kimura are killed in the attempt. Ahn is th ambushed by Hawaii Pistol, but he recognizes and spares her, and ev sympathizes with her mission, since he is himself a Korean. Ahn discovers that she is Kang's missing twin daughter. The other daughter, who happs to be gaged to Kawaguchi's son, recognizes Ahn and visits her apartmt, but is killed by her father Kang, Yem and a group of soldiers. The latter are none the wiser and believe they have successfully killed Ahn. At this point, Ahn assumes her twin's idtity, and a few days later, ters the wedding as the bride. Assisted by Hawaii Pistol, Buddy, and Big Gun—who survived his injuries—they carry out an attack on the wedding. Ahn kills Kawaguchi, and Hawaii Pistol kills Kang wh Ahn hesitates to do so, revealing that he killed his father, a Japanese sympathizer, and did not want Ahn to live with that and become a mercary like him. Big Gun is killed while covering their escape, taking Kawaguchi's son hostage, they are hemmed in by army reinforcemts. Hawaii Pistol, realizing that she can still pose as her twin, shares a kiss with Ahn, promising to meet her again in the cafe they met in Shanghai. Ahn walks out and is rescued by the Japanese soldiers—she later absconds back to Shanghai. Hawaii Pistol and Buddy attempt to escape, but Yem kills them.
For his services to Japan, Yem is made head of the secret police. However, the Japanese are defeated in World War II and Korea is liberated. In 1949, a commission for war crimes investigates Yem—now a sior officer with the Korean police—who protests his innocce and points to his resistance service. The only witness to Yem's guilt is found murdered, so the charges are dropped. Ev so, Yem is cornered on the streets by Ahn and Myung-woo, who survived his injuries earlier in the film but was rdered mute and slightly disfigured. They proceed to shoot Yem and he dies. Ahn sadly recalls her frids in the Resistance, Hawaii Pistol and Buddy before the scre fades out.
According to the director of the film, the character Yem Sek-jin is based on Yeom Dong-jin, the right-wing militant and founder of the White Shirts Society.
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With a budget of ₩18 billion (or US$16 million), Assassination filmed in both Shanghai and Seoul for five months. A special set of 13, 500 square meters was created in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, to recreate the Seosomun Street in Gyeongseong. The rest of the filming took place at the Shanghai set in Chedun, which is 27 times the size of the Hapcheon set in South Gyeongsang Province. (The 2007 Chinese film Lust, Caution was also shot in Chedun.)
Oping on 1, 260 scres on July 22, 2015, Assassination earned ₩3.59 billion (US$3.1 million (exchange rate 2016.05.04)) from 478, 000 admissions. It was the best oping day for a local film in 2015 and the second-best oping day overall in Korea behind Avgers: Age of Ultron.
, it has grossed a total of US$77 million from 11.79 million admissions, making it the highest-grossing Korean film of 2015 as well as the eighth-all-time-highest-grossing film in Korean cinema history.
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Assassination has received mixed to positive reviews, holding an 88% Certified Fresh on Rott Tomatoes, most reviews of which praises the film's tertainmt value but criticizes its lgth and complicated narrative. Village Voice's Simon Abrams found the film's highlights to be during its lighthearted sces, and summarized Assassination as the kind of overstuffed historical mega-production that Hollywood doesn't make anymore.
Although lamting the film's characters and running time, Scre Daily's Jason Bechervaise praised Choi Dong-hoon's direction and his execution of the movie's action sequces.
The New York Times' Jeanette Catsoulis also praised the film's action sces, but argued that its screplay contained too many characters and surmised that it's possible to follow [Assassination] without taking notes, but I wouldn't recommd it.
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Similarly, The Hollywood Reporter's Clarce Tsui admired the high production values of the film, but heavily disapproved of its poor characterizations and Choi's approach to the historical film gre, particularly labeling the film's ding as half-baked commtary.
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 elemts 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$8.65 million (exchange rate 2016.05.04)) in damages. Caper Film died 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 movemt.
Seoul Ctral District Court rejected Choi's request for an injunction to stop the film from being shown in theaters, ruling on August 19, 2015, that an abstract summary cannot be protected by copyright laws, the female protagonists in the novel and the film are depicted in completely differt ways with the assassination plan not a major plot point in the novel, and that supporting characters Kim Koo and Kim Won-bong are real historical figures and hce cannot be viewed as a source of similarity betwe the two works.
Assassination (2015 Film)
Assassination has received mixed to positive reviews, holding an 88% Certified Fresh on Rott Tomatoes, most reviews of which praises the film's tertainmt value but criticizes its lgth and complicated narrative. Village Voice's Simon Abrams found the film's highlights to be during its lighthearted sces, and summarized Assassination as the kind of overstuffed historical mega-production that Hollywood doesn't make anymore.
Although lamting the film's characters and running time, Scre Daily's Jason Bechervaise praised Choi Dong-hoon's direction and his execution of the movie's action sequces.
The New York Times' Jeanette Catsoulis also praised the film's action sces, but argued that its screplay contained too many characters and surmised that it's possible to follow [Assassination] without taking notes, but I wouldn't recommd it.
Jun Ji Hyun Thinking 'assassination'
Similarly, The Hollywood Reporter's Clarce Tsui admired the high production values of the film, but heavily disapproved of its poor characterizations and Choi's approach to the historical film gre, particularly labeling the film's ding as half-baked commtary.
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 elemts 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$8.65 million (exchange rate 2016.05.04)) in damages. Caper Film died 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 movemt.
Seoul Ctral District Court rejected Choi's request for an injunction to stop the film from being shown in theaters, ruling on August 19, 2015, that an abstract summary cannot be protected by copyright laws, the female protagonists in the novel and the film are depicted in completely differt ways with the assassination plan not a major plot point in the novel, and that supporting characters Kim Koo and Kim Won-bong are real historical figures and hce cannot be viewed as a source of similarity betwe the two works.
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