Assassins opens on September 23 and targets the Chuseok holiday audience. Huh Jin-ho builds the film around a 1974 assassination attempt and three linked viewpoints. The case closes on paper, but the story keeps moving through the people who question it.
Assassins opens on September 23, placing it in the Chuseok release window. Huh Jin-ho frames the film as a mystery built around an unresolved historic case, not as a simple period replay. The story follows three people as they approach the same 사건 from different positions and keep digging after the official conclusion.
The case closes, but the questions do not
The film centers on the August 15, 1974 Liberation Day ceremony, where an assassination attempt on the president and first lady leaves behind a trail of suspicion. The investigation headquarters ultimately labels Mun Tae-gwang’s actions a solo crime and ends the case. Cheol-gu of the Central Police Station, Dongseong Ilbo section chief Jae-hwan, and junior reporter Yeong-il do not accept that result, and each begins to pursue the truth from his own place. That three-angle structure gives the story its main drive.
Huh Jin-ho returns with a new kind of suspense
Huh Jin-ho is widely known for Christmas in August and One Fine Spring Day, and this film places him in mystery territory. The project keeps the focus on tension, doubt, and investigation rather than on a straightforward historical retelling. Its 130-minute running time and 12-plus rating frame it as a wide theatrical release, while the plural title points toward a story built on more than one hidden layer.
A large cast keeps the investigation in motion
Yoo Hae-jin, Park Hae-il, and Lee Min-ho lead the three viewpoints, with Park Jung-min as Mun Tae-gwang. Bae Seong-woo, Uhm Ji-won, and Park Ji-hwan also appear, and special roles include Jung Woo-sung, Kim Da-myung, Shim Eun-kyung, Park Hae-joon, Oh Jung-se, and Shin Hyun-bin. The cast list suggests a film that uses many faces to keep the inquiry active across police, press, and public spaces. For this release, the key draw is not only the case itself, but the way each character pushes the same unanswered event from a different angle.
