
Phantom(2023)
In 1933, when Korea was under Japanese occupation, five people in Gyeongseong are suspected to be "Phantom" spies of the anti-Japanese organization.


“The country falls. The operation begins.”
In Japanese-occupied Korea, three freedom fighters are assigned a mission to assassinate a genocidal military leader and his top collaborator. But the plan goes completely awry amidst double-crossings, counter-assassinations, and a shocking revelation about one of the assassins' past.

Gianna Jun
Ahn Ok-yun

Ha Jung-woo
Hawaii Pistol

Lee Jung-jae
Yeom Seok-jin

Oh Dal-su
Pomade

Cho Jin-woong
Big Gun / Chu Sang-ok

Lee Kyung-young
Kang In-gook

Choi Deok-moon
Hwang Deok-sam

Kim Eui-sung
Butler

Park Byung-eun
Kawaguchi

Jin Kyung
Ahn Seong-sim
Assassination is a action, thriller, drama film released in 2015 exploring themes of assassination, independence movement, japanese invasion of korea, 1930s, korean resistance, japanese occupation of korea. Directed by Choi Dong-hoon, it stars Gianna Jun, Ha Jung-woo, Lee Jung-jae. In Japanese-occupied Korea, three freedom fighters are assigned a mission to assassinate a genocidal military leader and his top collaborator. But the plan goes completely awry amidst double-crossings, counter-assassinations, and a shocking revelation about one of the assassins' past.
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