26 Years

26 Years
Promotional poster for 26 Years
Hangul
26년
Hanja
26年
RR26nyeon
MR26nyŏn
Directed byCho Geun-hyun
Written byLee Hae-young
Based on26 Years
by Kang Full
Produced byChoi Yong-bae
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

26 Years (Korean: 26년; RR: 26 nyeon) is a 2012 South Korean film based on the popular 2006 manhwa serialized online by manhwaga Kang Full. 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.