A Taxi Driver
2017 · Movie · 138 min · ★ 8.0 · 83% critics
In 1980 Seoul, a struggling taxi driver takes a lucrative fare to drive a foreign passenger to the city of Gwangju. As they travel deeper into a tense, tightly controlled situation, he’s forced to confront what’s really happening around him and decide how far he’ll go to help.
Also known as Taeksi woonjunsa
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Details
- Original title
- 택시운전사
- Years
- 2017
- Release date
- 2017-08-02
- Language
- Korean
- Runtime
- 138 min
- Critic score
- 83/100
- TMDB rating
- 8.0/10 (1,169 votes)
- Box office
- $86,252,940
About
If you like emotional, based-on-real-events dramas that build from everyday life into high-stakes tension, this should land well; Not for you if you want light, easy viewing like Extraordinary Attorney Woo or Still 17.
Pros: gripping true-story drama; strong performances; intense, emotional tension | Cons: slow opening stretch; heavy violence themes; pacing feels long
Themes
- taxi
- taxi driver
- protest
- based on true story
- democracy
- historical event
- 1980s
- gwangju uprising
- gwangju
- democratization movement
- south korea
- excited
Awards & recognition
- International Submission to the Academy Awards · 2018 · nominated
Cast & crew
Song Kang-ho
as Kim Man-seob
Thomas Kretschmann
as Jürgen Hinzpeter
Yoo Hai-jin
as Hwang Tae-sul
Ryu Jun-yeol
as Gu Jae-sik
Park Hyuk-kwon
as Reporter Choi
Choi Gwi-hwa
as Civvies Leader
Cha Soon-bae
as Driver Cha
Shin Dam-su
as Driver Sin
Ryu Sung-hyun
as Driver Ryoo
Um Tae-goo
as Illegal checkpoint Sergeant First Class Park
Directed by Jang Hoon