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A TAXI DRIVER

By Hoon JANG

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Drama - Completed 2017

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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Asian world film festival 2017
Blue Dragon Awards 2017
Buil Film Awards 2017
Director's Cut Awards 2017
Fantasia Film Festival 2017
Grand Bell Awards, South Korea 2017
Korean Association of Film Critics Awards 2017
The SACF Artist of the Year Awards 2017
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    • Year of production
    • 2017
    • Genres
    • Drama, Action/Adventure
    • Countries
    • KOREA (South)
    • Languages
    • KOREAN
    • Duration
    • 137 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Hoon JANG
    • Producer(s)
    • Showbox FILMS
    • 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.
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