Movie "Assassination" has stormed into the record books to score the highest in opening week

Action movie "Assassination" has stormed into the record books to score the fastest grossing Korean movie in 2015.

The film has reached 3 million audience mark in its first opening week.

On 27th, according to Korean film council, "Assassination" topped the box office this weekend reaching 3,361,998 audience as of sunday.

Set in Shanghai and Seoul in the 1930s when Korea was a colony of Japan, the star-studded film depicts three Korean independence fighters teaming up to assassinate the commander of the Japanese troops in Korea and a Korean business tycoon with ties to Japan.

Among the actors in the leading roles are Jun Ji-hyun, Lee Jung-jae and Ha Jung-woo.