26 Years

26 Years
Promotional poster for 26 Years
Hangul
26년
Hanja
26
Revised RomanizationIsipyuknyeon
McCune–ReischauerIsipyuknyŏn
Directed byCho Geun-hyun
Written byLee Hae-young
Based on26 Years
by Kang Full
Produced byChoi Yong-bae[1][2]
StarringJin Goo
Han Hye-jin
Bae Soo-bin
Im Seulong
CinematographyKim Tae-kyung
Edited byHahm Sung-won
Son Yeon-ji
Music byLee Jin-hee
Kim Hong-jib
Distributed byInvent Stone Corp.
Chungeorahm Film
Release date
  • November 29, 2012 (2012-11-29)
Running time
135 minutes
CountrySouth Korea
LanguageKorean
Budget₩6.6 billion
Box officeUS$19.5 million[3]

26 Years (Korean26년; RR26 nyeon) is a 2012 South Korean film based on the popular 2006 manhwa serialized online by manhwaga Kang Full.[4] It is the fictional story of five ordinary people (a sports shooter, a gangster, a policeman, a businessman, and head of a private security firm) who band together in order to assassinate the man responsible for the massacre of innocent civilians in Gwangju in May 1980.

  1. ^ Song, Ji-hwan (28 December 2012). "26 YEARS Producer CHOI Yong-bae". Korean Film Council. Retrieved 2013-01-11.
  2. ^ Conran, Pierce (23 January 2013). "CHOI Yong-bae Named Film Professional of the Year". Korean Film Council. Retrieved 2013-01-25.
  3. ^ "26 Years (2012)". www.koreanfilm.or.kr.
  4. ^ Lee, Claire (23 November 2012). "Movies based on webtoons flourish". The Korea Herald. Archived from the original on 2012-11-23. Retrieved 2012-11-25.