Based on true events, an untold story of a taxi driver.
A Taxi Driver
88Standing
7th of 194 in Korean Cinema
- Out-grossed 92% of Korean Cinema releases with reported figures ($82M).
- Returned 6.4× its budget, against an industry median of 2.4×.
- Momentum in the 84th percentile.
- Audience rating 8 from 1,237 votes, the 94th percentile.
- Cost
- $13M
- Took
- $82M
Blockbuster6.4× its cost
Against a Korean Cinema median of 2.4×, so this one returned 2.7 times what a typical release there does.
The money says blockbuster. What do you say?
The picture
May, 1980. Man-seob is a taxi driver in Seoul who lives from hand to mouth, raising his young daughter alone. One day, he hears that there is a foreigner who will pay big money for a drive down to Gwangju city. Not knowing that he’s a German journalist with a hidden agenda, Man-seob takes the job.
- Released
- 2 August 2017
- Runtime
- 2h 18m
- Language
- Korean
- Industry
- Korean Cinema
Top billedAll 19 credits
- Song Kang-hoKim Man-seob
- Thomas KretschmannJürgen Hinzpeter
- Yoo Hai-jinHwang Tae-sul
- Ryu Jun-yeolGu Jae-sik
- Park Hyuk-kwonReporter Choi
- Choi Gwi-hwaCivvies Leader
Made by
- Director
- Jang Hoon
- Writer
- Eom Yu-na
- Director of Photography
- Go Rak-sun
- Producer
- Park Un-kyoung
Filed under
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