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A Taxi Driver

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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.

Year

2017

Duration

2h 17m

IMDb

7.9

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Cast

HJ

Hun Jang

Director

Song Kang-ho

Kim Man-seob

Thomas Kretschmann

Jürgen Hinzpeter

Cast

HJ

Hun Jang

Director

Song Kang-ho

Kim Man-seob

Thomas Kretschmann

Jürgen Hinzpeter

Yoo Hae-jin

Hwang Tae-sul

Ryu Jun-Yeol

Gu Jae-sik

Hyuk-kwon Park

Reporter Choi

Gwi-hwa Choi

Civvies leader

Cha Soon-bae

Driver Cha

SD

Sin Dam-soo

Driver Sin

SR

Seong-hyeon Ryoo

Driver Ryoo

TE

Tae-goo Eom

Illegal checkpoint Sergeant First Class Park

MP

Min-hee Park

Kwon Joong-ryeong

Jung-Eun Lee

Hwang Tae-sool's wife

EY

Eun-mi Yoo

Kim Eun-jeong

Kwon Soon-Joon

Kang Sang-goo

YS

Yoon Seok-ho

Hwang Tae-sool's son

HJ

Heo Jung-do

Pregnant woman's husband

Lee Bong-ryun

Pregnant Woman

LH

Lee Ho-Cheol

Hong Yong-pyo

YE

Yu-na Eom

Writer

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8 Comments

OUi6AMOct 22, 2024

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_JuKu_Aug 7, 2024

I enjoyed this movie. It was fairly tight, well-written and photographed. I would've said it was an 8 were it not for the overwhelming Korean trope of super oppressive background strings and buckets of crocodile tears. These distracting aspects weaken an otherwise strong and compelling film. I think by now I must've seen at least 10 films that stars Kong-ho Song, including the Oscar favorite "Parasite". Ne never fails to deliver, that's for sure. I just wish the dang directors wouldn't always go for the tear factor, though. It always look ridiculous, especially in this political film where the German journalist himself gets reduced to tears because it's in the script. Ridiculous.

Mustapha NdureAug 7, 2024

1980 Gwangju is no small matter to many Korean people. You can compare it to Kennedy assassination in its significance. I had a high expectation because of the subject matter and the actors, but I felt that the movie fell short. The direction and writing were rather poor considering the named actors and quite high production value. The acting was good, but not stellar. Should be shorter and smoother in transition. Of course, I enjoyed it 1000 more than those soul-less CG-intense transformer series.

Molham مُلهَمAug 7, 2024

The DIALOG, man. What made us not easy to enjoy the Korean movies or the TV drama series, no matter how popular they are, is the stupid dialog. It's not the normal dialogs that we usually see in the Western movies, the dialog in Korean movies or drama series are not dialog between two characters or among several actors, but a monologue, a single person keeps talking to himself or herself, and such monologue is widely used to show those thoughts usually flow in one's brain. But Korean movies and TV dramas use such stupid monologue, a self-talking-to-himself(herself) to let the viewers, who in the eyes of the screenplay writers and the directors usually think the viewers are too stupid to understand what the characters in the movie or TV dramas are thinking. So most of the time in a Korean movie ( the Japanese movies and TV dramas also got such problem, but not as serious as the Korean's), talking non-stop to him(her)self, a monologue only mentally ill or born retarded, become the never-can-get-rid-of, must-have, even in self doubt scene so popularly used. A dialog helps the viewers to understand the on-going of the storyline, the coming-up or developing scenarios or plots, but use monologue of one person keeps talking to himself or herself is just stupid and unnatural. When people start talking to himself or herself, it's a popular sign and common sense that the person who talk or murmuring to himself(herself) is reaching a deteriorating mental condition, he or she uses the mouth to carry out the thoughts in their mind or brain. It's a common symptom of aging problem. People under age 45 usually would not have such self-murmuring problem unless a mentally deterioration is underway. But the Korean movies and TV dramas both pushing the uncontrollable talking to himself or herself a common habit to all the Koreans, no matter young or old, male or female, they all put their thoughts, their thinking in their mouths and blabbering out non-stop. If the Koreans got such talk-to-themselves problems when they are still young, even at teenage, I just could not imagine how such problem would become how serious when they become older and older. We often saw some people talking to themselves in a supermarket or in the street, and we'd automatically consider them either too old or with mental problems, but not the Koreans, especially the Koreans in a Korean movie or TV drama, because to the Korean people, the monologue is indeed the dialog. We've seen so many good Korean movies and TV drama series, almost all of them got such ridiculous talking-to-himself or herself. Dialog is a conversation, not a monologue, consciously, sub-consciously or unconsciously to show one's thoughts by mouth.

Afã da liloca2401348Aug 7, 2024

In China, we had the same movement, but we failed. We still live in the control of Chinese Communist Party. Why did we fail in 4th June 1989? What should we do for our freedom?

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