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7.8When a zombie virus pushes Korea into a state of emergency, those trapped on an express train to Busan must fight for their own survival.
Cast
- Gong Yoo as Seok-woo
- Kim Su-an as Soo-ahn
- Jung Yu-mi as Sung-gyeong
- Don Lee as Sang-hwa
- Choi Woo-shik as Yeong-gook
- An So-hee as Jin-hee
Themes
- halloween
- zombie
- train
- survival horror
- pandemic
- aggressive
- somber
- busan, south korea
- south korea
- suspenseful
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Ratings
IMDb
7.6/10
300,921 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
95%
Metacritic
73/100
- Year
- 2016
- Runtime
- 118 min
- Genres
- Action, Horror, Thriller
- Rated
- Not Rated
- Awards
- 36 wins & 42 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Yeon Sang-ho
- Written by
- Park Joo-suk
- Produced by
- Lee Dong-ha
- Starring
- Gong Yoo Jung Yu-mi Ma Dong-seok Kim Su-an Choi Woo-shik Ahn So-hee Kim Eui-sung
- Cinematography
- Lee Hyung-deok
- Edited by
- Yang Jin-mo
- Music by
- Jang Young-gyu
- Production companies
- Next Entertainment World RedPeter Film
- Distributed by
- Next Entertainment World
- Release dates
- May 13, 2016 ( 2016-05-13 ) ( Cannes ) July 20, 2016 ( 2016-07-20 ) (South Korea)
- Running time
- 118 minutes
- Country
- South Korea
- Language
- Korean
- Budget
- $8.5 million
- Box office
- $98.5 million
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Country of origin
- South Korea
- Original language
- Korean
- Followed by
- Peninsula
- Follows
- Seoul Station
- Director
- Yeon Sang-ho
- Screenwriter
- Yeon Sang-ho
- Producer
- Lee Dong-ha
- Narrative location
- Busan
- Duration
- 118
- FilmAffinity ID
- 312662
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- traintobusan.co.kr
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- distributed by
- Netflix
- publication date
- 2018-03-08
- title
- 釜山行
- film editor
- Yang Jin-mo
- social media followers
- 1466
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- set in environment
- train
- review score
- 73/100
- capital cost
- 8500000
- box office
- 92764199
Sources (15)
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Encyclopedic overview
Train to Busan (Korean: 부산행; RR: Busanhaeng; MR: Pusanhaeng; lit. 'To Busan') is a 2016 South Korean action horror film directed by Yeon Sang-ho and written by Park Joo-suk. It stars Gong Yoo, Jung Yu-mi, Ma Dong-seok, Kim Su-an, Choi Woo-shik, Ahn So-hee, and Kim Eui-sung. The film takes place primarily on a KTX from Seoul to Busan as a zombie apocalypse suddenly breaks out and threatens the safety of the passengers.
A co-production between Next Entertainment World and RedPeter Film, Train to Busan premiered in the Midnight Screenings section of the 2016 Cannes Film Festival on May 13. It was released by Next Entertainment World on July 20 in South Korea; by August 7, it became the first Korean film of the year to break the audience record of over 10 million theatergoers. It received positive reviews and was a commercial success, grossing $98.5 million on a budget of $8.5 million.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Train to Busan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.