Film

1987: When the Day Comes

Name: 1987: When the Day Comes
Director: Jang Joon-hwan
Released: 2017
Rating: 8.1
Cast: Kim Yoon-seok, Ha Jung-woo, Yoo Hae-jin, Kim Tae-ri, Park Hee-soon

2017 · 129 min · ★ 8.1 · Dir. Jang Joon-hwan

The truth must be told.

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.