Joon-Hwan Jang	...	(Director)
Kyung-chan Kim	...	(Writer)
Yoon-Seok Kim	...	Park Cheo-Won
Jung-woo Ha	...	Prosecutor Choi Hwan
Hae-jin Yoo	...	Han Byung-Yong
Tae-ri Kim	...	Yeon-Hee
Hee-soon Park	...	Detective Jo Han-Kyung
Hee-jun Lee	...	Reporter Yoon Sang-Sam
Eui-sung Kim	...	Lee Boo-Young
Jong-soo Kim	...	Park Jung-Ki
Dal-su Oh	...	Journalist
Chang-Seok Ko	...	Journalist
Moon Sung-Keun	...	Jang Se-Dong
Hyeon Woo	...	Kang Min-Chang
Woo-jin Jo	...	Park Jong-Chul's uncle
Ji-hwan Park	...	Detective
Seung-mok Yoo	...	Yoo Jung-Bang
Tae-seong Kim	...	Composer
Woo-hyung Kim	...	Cinematographer
Jin-mo Yang	...	Editor

Comments: Very well done film except for the 'gun on the table' of Ha Jung-woo drinking whiskey for breakfast. What was the point? Why is Ha Jung-woo credited with a starring role and Gang Dong-Won with a cameo?

Other than that, I cried at the end for the romance. And the melodrama. And the song. And the montage of events that took place a mere 30 years ago. And good triumphing over bad. And etc.

South Korea is excellent with "Based on Real Events' films. It works as a check on their tendency to committee generate scripts so clever they're annoying.

Like drinking whiskey for breakfast, just because.



Summary: In 1987 Korea, under an oppressive military regime, a college student gets killed during a police interrogation involving torture. Government 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 begins looking into the case for the truth. Despite a systematic attempt to silence everyone involved in the case, the truth gets out, causing an eruption of public outrage.