The results surpassed all films in the series in South Korea, including the lifetime cume of Annabelle. The story of a deluxe taxi driver who gets revenge on behalf of his passengers. (A Taxi Driver), a historical action film that takes place during the. Taxi Driver: With Lee Jehoon, Esom, Kim Eui-sung, Pyo Ye-Jin. According to Warner Bros., the fourth installment in The Conjuring franchise opened to $6.6 million on 947 screens. Streaming Korean movies online is one of the best routes to authentic language. Ranking third was Annabelle: Creation, which accounted for about 17 percent of the share. The local police actioner from Lotte Entertainment debuted across 1,058 screens to bring in 29.8 percent of the share for a total $13.5 million. “The film focuses instead on the friendship that forms between a local driver and foreign journalist, and it is this mainstream appeal that attracted a diverse demographic,” said film critic Yoon Sung-eun.Ĭoming in second place this weekend was Midnight Runners. The incident, known today as the Gwangju Uprising, remains a sensitive issue in modern Korean history, but film critics say A Taxi Driver was able to resonate widely with viewers as it refrains from making any direct political commentary. Directed by Jang Hoon ( The Front Line), the film is inspired by the true story of a German reporter who receives the help of a local cab driver to cover a massive, military regime-sanctioned massacre against civilians during Korea’s 1980 democratization movement. Visit the festival's website at for more.Starring Thomas Kretschmann ( Stalingrad, Avengers: Age of Ultron) opposite Song Kang-ho ( Snowpiercer), the film closed the 21st Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal.
Other Korean films to be screened include "The Battleship Island," "The King," "New Trial" and "Ordinary Person," all set in modern Korean history.ĭuring the festival, a variety of cultural events to introduce Korean culture will take place. Edeltraut Brahmstaedt, the widow of Jurgen Hinzpeter, the German journalist who filmed and reported on the Gwangju massacre, and his friend Jurgen Bertram who edited Hinzpeter's documentary broadcast under the title "South Korea at Crossroads," will be present at the film festival. The South Korean entry for the Foreign Language Category of the 90th Academy Awards depicts the journey of a taxi driver named Kim Sa-bok, who drove a German reporter to the Gwangju massacre. Opening the festival will be "A Taxi Driver," directed by Jang Hoon.
Robert De Niro stars as Travis Bickle in this oppressive psychodrama about a Vietnam veteran who rebels against the decadence and immorality of big city life in New York while working the nightshift as a taxi driver. On every street in every city, theres a nobody who dreams of being a somebody. The film festival, to be co-organized for the sixth time by the Korean Consulate and a nonprofit organization Project K, consisting of University of Frankfurt Korean studies students and other young Germans interested in Korean culture, will screen 16 Korean films at CineStar Metropolis between Oct. AKA: Taxi Driver 1976,, Chauffeur de taxi.
A hard-working taxi driver traversing the streets of Seoul in 1980, Man Seob is doing everything he can to make ends meet, but it never seems to be enough. What can be said about Gwangju, I thought, that hasn’t been said already I’d rather see a documentary. Synopsis After the passing of his wife, Kim Man Seob (Song Kang Ho) is left with an overwhelming number of hospital bills and a young daughter, whom he now has to raise on his own. in the midst of the Gwangju Uprising, a critical event in modern South Korea. "A Taxi Driver," a film loosely based on the Gwangju massacre on May 18, 1980, will open an annual Korean film festival in Frankfurt. I went along to watch A Taxi Driver out of a sense of duty. A down-on-his-luck taxi driver from Seoul is hired by a foreign journalist.