If you make a purchase through one of these links, Amazon gives Cinema Escapist a referral commission. Note: this article has Amazon affiliate links. What do you think about this list? Let us know in the comments below!įor more Korean movies, check out The Ten Best Korean movies on Netflix Now that there’s a liberal President in the Blue House, I hope we can see more entertaining movies like A Taxi Driver which cover South Korea’s democratization. Product Title: A Taxi Driver (Blu-ray) (Normal Edition) (Korea Version) Also known as.
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A Taxi Driver is full of great dramatic moments that make you empathize with the characters. The two get off to a rocky start, but soon realize that more beyond their selfish desires are at stake. In A Taxi Driver, veteran actor Song Kang-ho plays the eponymous driver, and Thomas Kretschmann (also in Stalingrad) plays the German reporter. For context, the Gwangju Uprising is probably the most important event in South Korea’s democratization. If he drives a foreign passenger from Seoul down to Gwangju and back again before the curfew, hell be paid the unthinkable sum of 100,000 won - enough to cover several months of unpaid rent. A Taxi Driver is not only entertaining, but also highly important to Korean society and history.Ī Taxi Driver is based on the true story of a taxi driver who drove a German reporter through a military blockade to cover the 1987 Gwangju Uprising. A Seoul taxi driver named Man-seob (SONG Kang-ho) comes across an offer too good to be true. However, this isn’t just some thoughtless Transformers-like blockbuster.
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Our top Korean movie of 2017 is A Taxi Driver - which also happens to be the highest grossing movie in South Korea for the year. Korean title: 택시운전사 (Taeksi Unjeonsa) | Starring: Song Kang-ho, Thomas Kretschmann, Yoo Hae-jin I can’t emphasize the action enough… there’s a LOT of fighting. You not only learn about an important part of Korean history, but also see a huge amount of action. As WWII winds down, the Koreans on the island must band together and escape from their Japanese captors.īattleship Island came in fourth at the 2017 Korean Box Office, and it’s easy to see why. The 2017 movie Battleship Islandis a highly dramatized account of Korean life on the real-life Battleship Island. Hwang Jung-min (from Ode to My Father) stars as the main character, a musician who’s forced to work on the island. This is something that still causes Japan-Korea tensions to this day. A Taxi Driver set a box office record for selling 5 million tickets in a week, the shortest time in Korean box office history, and has become the top film of 2017, attracting moviegoers not only in Korea but in the U.S and Canada as well. During WWII, the Japanese forced thousands of Koreans to work on the island under appalling conditions. Title : A.Taxi.DTS-HDC Writing library : x264 core 142 r2431+42 c69a006 tMod email protected X8664 Encoding settings : cabac1. As a 62-year-old American who has seen these stories over and over again through my life I know we can't get enough of excellent movies like this to remind us that there are things worth standing up and fighting for in our country, no. País South Korea Streaming (Servicio externo) Grupo: REGRET. Remember that creepy island in the James Bond movie Skyfall? Well, it’s actually a real place called Battleship Island, off the coast of Nagasaki. It is a sad part of history in South Korea, but it is still happening around our world in 2017 soon to be 2018.
Not knowing that he’s a German journalist with a hidden agenda, Man-seob takes the job.Korean title: 군함도 (Gunhamdo)| Starring: Hwang Jung-min, So Ji-sub, Song Joong-ki, Lee Jung-hyun A sequel of 16 Puasa, this is a comedic story of six bumbling friends who constantly face difficulties fasting during the month of Ramadan. One day, he hears that there is a foreigner who will pay big money for a drive down to Gwangju city. Man-seob is a taxi driver in Seoul who lives from hand to mouth, raising his young daughter alone.
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