- HD 1080
- Runtime: 129m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: ko
- Country: South Korea
- Director: Jang Joon-hwan
- Stars: Kim Yun-seok, Ha Jung-woo, Yoo Hai-jin, Kim Tae-ri, Park Hee-soon
- keywords: students' movement, protest, democracy, military dictatorship, historical event, student protest, communism, 1980s, democratization movement, south korea, seoul, south korea
- Production_studio: CJ Entertainment, Woojeong Film
- Slogan: The truth must be told.
- The 1987: When the Day Comes is featured in the top rankings of 2017
- #14 in Top Drama Movies of 2017
- #3 in Top Thriller Movies of 2017
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.