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Aug 11, 2017 · With Song Kang-ho, Thomas Kretschmann, Yoo Hae-jin, Ryu Jun-yeol. A widowed father and taxi driver who drives a German reporter from Seoul to Gwangju to cover the 1980 uprising, soon finds himself regretting his decision after being caught in the violence around him.
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- Action, Drama, History
- Hun Jang
- 2017-08-11
Original title: "Taeksi woonjunsa". A widowed father and taxi driver who drives a German reporter from Seoul to Gwangju to cover the 1980 uprising, soon find...
Watch A Taxi Driver | Prime Video. Home. Store. Live TV. Categories. A Taxi Driver. In this powerful drama based on a true story, a down-on-his-luck taxi driver hired by a foreign journalist finds himself in a life-or-death struggle in the midst of the Gwanju Uprising. 790 2 h 17 min 2017. X-Ray 16+.
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Historical background
The film centers around the Gwangju Uprisingthat occurred from 18 May 1980, to 27 May 1980, and it is estimated to have led to 2,000 people being killed. The plot in the film mirrors the historical background of the Gwangju Uprisings. The Gwangju Uprising was a result of a continuous power tug-of-war between the authoritarian government and the citizens of South Korea – mainly college students – that were advocating for democracy. For many years, Gwangju's Uprising was a forbidden term in Sou...
In 1980, Kim Man-seob is a debt-laden widower who works as a taxi driver in Seoul. Overhearing another taxi driver bragging about a 100,000 won job to bring a foreign client to Gwangju, Man-seob steals the client, unaware of the events in Gwangju. The client is Jürgen "Peter" Hinzpeter, a German journalist wanting to report on the increasing civil ...
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1. Song Kang-hoas Kim Man-seob 1. A widowed taxi driver who lives with his eleven year old daughter in a small house. He is an ordinary man from the working class who cares only about his family's livelihood and is uninterested in political issues. The character is loosely based on real-life taxi driver Kim Sa-bok, who ferried Jürgen Hinzpeter to Gwangju. Kim's whereabouts was unknown until the release of A Taxi Driver, when in September 2017, following the immense commercial and critical suc...
Special appearances
1. Ko Chang-seokas Sang-goo's father 2. Jeon Hye-jinas Sang-goo's mother 3. Jung Jin-youngas Reporter Lee 4. Ryu Tae-ho as Gwangju newspaper director 5. Jeong Seok-yong as President of car center in Seoul
The film was released on 2 August 2017, in South Korea. On the same day, the film had its international premiere at the Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal, where Song Kang-howas named Best Actor for his role in the film. According to distributor Showbox, the film was released in North America on 11 August, Australia and New Zealand on...
Critical response
A Taxi Driver received positive reviews upon its release. The review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 96% based on 28 reviews, with an average rating of 7.3/10. The website's critical consensus reads "A Taxi Driver brings a ground-level perspective and a refreshingly light touch to a fact-based story with sobering implications."[a] On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating based on reviews, the film has a score of 69 out of 100, based on 7 critic...
Box office
According to the Korean Film Council, on the first day of the release, a total of 698,090 tickets were sold, which earned US$4.5 million. The film was available on 1,446 screens and was shown 7,068 times across South Korea.By noon on the second day of its run, the film had passed the one million viewer mark. On the third day, the total audience doubled, attracting two million viewers.The viewer numbers continued to rise as the tickets sale increased to four million by the fourth day. A Taxi D...
Reactions in China
A Taxi Driver is yet to be released in any form in China, though it received a theatrical release on 21 September 2017, in Hong Kong. The film has received warm responses from users on Chinese movie website Douban, where it had a high user rating. However at around 21:10, 3 October 2017, the film was entirely removed from the Chinese movie portal, the reason possibly being that a number of reviews had compared the film's content to the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, which is str...
A Taxi Drivergenerally shows good accuracy on the memory of Gwangju Uprising, but several historical events depicted in the film are inaccurate and fictional. The name of the taxi driver who helps Hinzpeter in the film is Kim Man-seob. He gives a false name, Kim Sa-bok, to Hinzpeter when he asks for Kim's name later in the film. However, in real li...
A Taxi Driver at the Korean Movie DatabaseA Taxi Driver at IMDbA Taxi Driver at HanCinemaA Taxi Driver at Naver Movies (in Korean)A cab driver in Seoul takes a German reporter to investigate rumors of civil unrest in Gwangju not knowing what awaits them there. Based on true events. Watch trailers & learn more.
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