1987: When the Day Comes
Rating: 7.8 Plot 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.
Director: Joon-Hwan Jang
Running time: 2h 9min
Genre: Drama
Release date: 27 December 2017 (South Korea)
Cast: Yoon-Seok Kim, Jung-woo Ha, Hae-jin Yoo, Tae-ri Kim, Hee-soon Park, Hee-jun Lee
