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A TAXI DRIVER

TAEKSI WOONJUNSA

By Jang HUN

CINEMARAN SPAIN - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline

Social issues - Completed 2017

A widowed father and taxi driver takes a German reporter from Seoul to Gwangju to cover the 1980 uprising.

Director´s Cut Awards 2017

Best New Actor

Fantasia FF 2017

Best Actor

Korean Association of Film Critics Awards 2017

Best Supporting Actor

Women in Film Korea Festival 2017

Producer Award

Blue Dragon Award 2018

Best Actor

Blue Dragon Award 2018

Best Music

Blue Dragon Awards 2018

Audience Choice Award

Buil Film Awards 2018

Buil Readers' Jury Award

- Year of production
- 2017
- Genres
- Social issues, Drama
- Countries
- KOREA (South)
- Languages
- KOREAN, ENGLISH, GERMAN, JAPANESE
- Duration
- 137 mn
- Director(s)
- Jang HUN
- Cast
- Kang-Ho SONG, Thomas KRETSCHMANN, Yoo HAE-JIN
- Synopsis
- May 1980. A Seoul taxi driver named Man-seob (SONG Kang-ho) comes across an offer too good to be true. If he drives a foreign passenger from Seoul down to Gwangju and back again before the curfew, he'll be paid the unthinkable sum of 100,000 won - enough to cover several months of unpaid rent. Without stopping to ask the details, he picks up the German reporter Peter (Thomas Kretschmann) and sets off along the highway. Although stopped by police roadblocks at the edge of Gwangju, Man-seob is desperate to earn his taxi fare, and eventually manages to find a way into the city. There they encounter students and ordinary citizens taking part in large-scale demonstrations against the government. Man-seob, alarmed by the danger in the air, pleads with Peter to go quickly back to Seoul. But Peter ignores him, and with the help of a university student Jae-sik (RYU Jun-yeol) and a Gwangju taxi driver named HWANG (YOO Hai-jin), begins shooting with his news camera. As time passes the situation grows more and more serious, and Man-seob keeps thinking of his young daughter at home all alone.