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1987: When the Day Comes
Jang Joon-hwan

1987: When the Day Comes

  • Drama
  • History
  • Thriller

The truth must be told.

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RELEASE

2017-12-27

BUGET

$12.3M

LENGTH

129 min

Description

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.