Train to Busan (Hangul: Ã, ??? ; RR: Ã , Busanhaeng ) is a 2016 South Korean zombie action thriller directed by Yeon Sang-ho and stars Gong Yoo, Jung Yu-mi and Ma Dong-seok. The film takes place on the train to Busan, because the zombie apocalypse suddenly broke out in the country and endangered the safety of passengers.
The film premiered at Midnight Screening at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival on May 13th. On August 7th, the film set a record as the first Korean film in 2016 to break the audience's record of more than 10 million theater audiences. The film serves as a reunion for Gong Yoo and Jung Yu-mi, who both starred in the 2011 movie The Crucible .
The animated prequel, Seoul Station , also directed by Yeon, was released less than a month later.
Video Train to Busan
Plot
Seok-woo, a divorced fund manager, is a workaholic dad and absent for his young daughter Su-an. For his birthday the next day, he hopes his father takes him to Busan to see his mother. They boarded the KTX at Seoul Station. Others on the same train were Sang-hwa's hard-working husband and his pregnant wife Seong-kyeong, a high school baseball team, a self-centered, self-sufficiency COO Yon-suk, In-gil and Jon-Gil, and a homeless people with post-traumatic stress disorder.
As the train departs, a struggling young woman rides the train with a bite wound on her leg. The woman immediately became a zombie and attacked a flight attendant, who later also turned into a zombie. The infection quickly spread throughout the train. Yong-guk baseball player, a girl named Jin-hee who has a crush on him, and several passengers managed to escape to another car. News releases report zombie outbreaks across the country. The train stopped at Daejeon, but surviving passengers found that the city had also been ridden, and they hurriedly retreated back to the train, splitting into different train cars in chaos. The conductor revives the train to get to Busan, where a successful quarantine zone is reported to have been established.
Seok-woo, Sang-hwa, and Yong-guk fight to where Su-an, In-gil, and Seong-kyeong are hiding, and together they fight through a horde of zombies into the front wagon, where other passengers are sheltered. However, on Yon-suk's initiative, the passengers blocked the survivors from entering, afraid that they were infected. Sang-hwa and In-gil sacrifice themselves to give others time to force open the door and enter the car. Yon-suk demands that newcomers isolate themselves in the vestibule, and others follow in his footsteps. When Jong-gil accidentally opens the door to a zombie to be with his zombie sister, In-gil, the zombies kill the rest of the passengers, leaving Seok-woo, Su-an and Seong-kyeong safe, as they are in the front room. Yon-suk and train officers escape from the onslaught by hiding in the bathroom.
The blocked lane at East Daegu train station forced the victims to stop and look for another train. In the process, Seok-woo, Seong-kyeong, Su-an, and homeless man are separated from Yong-guk and Jin-hee. Yon-suk escapes after pushing the train officer to be killed by the zombies, then does the same with Jin-hee. Heartbroken, Yong-Guk stays with Jin-hee and gets bitten by him. The train conductor starts the locomotive on another track but is also killed by a zombie while trying to save Yon-suk. The homeless man sacrificed himself to let Su-an and Seong-kyeong run away with Seok-woo into the train that the conductor had activated. They meet Yon-suk inside the helicopter cabin, on the verge of turning into a zombie, bitten as the train conductor rescues him. Seok-woo fights him, but he himself gets bitten. He places Su-an and Seong-kyeong inside the engine room and shares his final words with his daughter before moving out. When he zombifies, he thinks about the first time he holds his daughter in his arms and throws himself from the locomotive with a smile.
Su-an and Seong-kyeong get off in Busan and start walking through the railway tunnel. On the other side of the tunnel are soldiers stationed to defend the perimeter against zombies. Unable to see the new arrival clearly, the soldiers at the checkpoint were ordered to shoot them. However, the soldiers then heard the singing, which made them realize that the newcomer is human: Su-an, crying while singing the song she wanted to do for her father at the beginning of the movie, now sings it in honor of her sacrifice..
Maps Train to Busan
Cast
- Gong Yoo as Seok-woo, the fund manager who is obsessed with his work
- Jung Yu-mi as Seong-kyeong, Sang-hwa's pregnant wife
- Kim Su-an as Su-an, Seok-woo's young daughter who wants to go to Busan to see her mother
- Ma Dong-seok as Sang-hwa, a tough guy who is a professional wrestler
- Choi Woo-shik as Yong-guk, a young baseball player
- Ahn So-hee as Jin-hee, Yong-guk's close friend
- Kim Eui-sung as Yon-suk, a rich COO
- Choi Gwi-hwa as a homeless person
- Jung Suk-yong as Captain KTX
- Ye Soo-jung as In-gil
- Park Myung-sin as Jong-gil
- Jang Hyuk-jin as Ki-chul
- Kim Chang-hwan as Kim Jin-mo
- Kim Yool-ho as Man in suit (cameo)
- Shim Eun-kyung as Runaway Girl (cameo)
Reception
box office
Train to Busan generates $ 93.1 million worldwide. It became Korea's top-selling film in Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Singapore. It records more than 11 million movie viewers in South Korea.
Critical response
In the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 95% rating based on 87 critics, and an average rating of 7.6/10. The important consensus of the website states: " Train to Busan gives something very interesting - and purely entertaining - takes on the zombie genre, with a fully conscious character and lots of social commentary to highlight the bursts of action designed with skill. "Metacritic, which gives a normalized ranking of 100 to reviews of major critics, gives the film an average score of 72 based on 15 reviews, indicating "favorable public reviews." Clark Collis of Entertainment Weekly wrote that the movie "borrows much of World War I/O in the rapidly moving portrayal of the undead mob while also boasting Brad Pitt's emotional core-starring extravaganza often lacks , "adding that" the result is first class all over. "At The New York Times, Jeannette Catsoulis chose her movie" Critic's Pick "and noticed her class warfare. Filmmaker Edgar Wright, who directed the BAFTA zombie comedy Shaun of the Dead , is a huge fan of the film. Wright recommended the movie in a tweet and named it "the best zombie movie I've ever watched forever."
Instead, negative reviews describe the film as " Snowpiercer with zombies." David Ehrlich of IndieWire commented that "when the characters are summarized into archetypes (and start making unreasonable decisions), the spectacle also provides a unique personality."
Accolades
Home media
American Distributor Well Go USA released DVD and Blu-ray versions of Train to Busan on January 17, 2017. FNC Add Culture released DVD and Blu-ray versions of Korea on February 22, 2017. It is also available on Netflix Stream and Amazon Prime Video.
Remake
Variety says in December 2016 that Gaumont will rebuild the Train to Busan in English.
References
External links
- Official website
- Train to Busan in Korean Film Database
- Train to Busan on IMDb
- Practicing to Busan at Rotten Tomatoes
- Practicing to Busan in Metacritic
- Practicing to Busan at HanCinema
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