In 1987 Korea, under an oppressive military regime, a college student gets killed during a police interrogation involving torture. Government of officials are quick to cover up the death and order the body to be cremated. A prosecutor who is supposed to sign the cremation release, raises questions about a 21-year-old kid dying of a heart attack, and he begins looking into the case for truth. Despite a systematic attempt to silence everyone involved in the case, the truth gets out, causing an eruption of public outrage.
Park Cheo-won
Prosecutor Choi Hwan
Han Byung-yong
Yeon-hee
Detective Jo Han-kyung
Reporter Yoon Sang-sam
Kim Jung-nam
Park Jong-chul
Lee Han-yeol
Jang Se-dong
Yoo Jung-bang
Mr. Park
Inspector Hwang
Senior Police Officer Ban
Assistant Inspector Kang
Lee Boo-young
Park Jung-ki
Prosecutor Pyo
Prosecutor Lee
Oh Yun-sang
Jung-mi
Yeon-hee's Mother
Park Jong-chul's Uncle
Kang Min-chang
Protester
Senior Patrol Officer Lee
Journalist (cameo) (uncredited)
Journalist (cameo) (uncredited)
Nurse (uncredited)
Democratic Personage (uncredited)
Priest Kim Seung-hoon (uncredited)
Priest Halm Se-woong (uncredited)
Ahn Yoo (uncredited)
Hwang Jeok-jun (uncredited)
Lee Jong-chang
Investigator (uncredited)
Dong-A Ilbo Reporter #1 / Protester
Black Suit Man
Detective
Yonsei University Demonstrator
Protester
Protester
Bus mother
Police
Coming Through the Rye
May 18
Excavator
The Mayor
Putin's Witnesses
The Eleventh Chapter
Hill of Freedom
Fate
National Security
A Taxi Driver
A Violent Prosecutor
The Absent-Minded Professor
The Merciless
The Man Standing Next
Summer Palace
The Endless Trench
John Mulaney: The Comeback Kid
Beasts Clawing at Straws
The Thieves
Released
Original LanguageKorean
Budget$12,308,000
Revenue$49,380,115
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