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Assassination
Why this pick
Another richly mounted Korean resistance thriller, driven by shifting loyalties, covert operations and escalating danger under Japanese occupation.
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MOVIE2016 2h 20m KOR
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Set in the late 1920s, it follows the cat-and-mouse game that unfolds between a group of resistance fighters attempting to smuggle explosives from Shanghai to Seoul, where they aim to destroy key Japanese facilities, and Japanese agents trying to stop them.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Song Kang-ho
Lee Jung-chool
Gong Yoo
Kim Woo-jin
Han Ji-min
Yun Gye-soon
Shingo Tsurumi
Higashi
Uhm Tae-goo
Hashimoto
Shin Sung-rok
Jo Hwe-ryung
Lee Byung-hun
Jeong Chae-san
Park Hee-soon
Kim Jang-ok