A Taxi Driver

May 1980. A Seoul taxi driver named Man-seob (SONG Kang-ho) comes across an offer too good to be true. If he drives a foreign passenger from Seoul down to Gwangju and back again before the curfew, he ll be paid the unthinkable sum of 100,000 won - enough to cover several months of unpaid rent. Without stopping to ask the details, he picks up the German reporter Peter (Thomas Kretschmann) and sets off along the highway. Although stopped by police roadblocks at the edge of Gwangju, Man-seob is desperate to earn his taxi fare, and eventually manages to find a way into the city. There they encounter students and ordinary citizens taking part in large-scale demonstrations against the government. Man-seob, alarmed by the danger in the air, pleads with Peter to go quickly back to Seoul. But Peter ignores him, and with the help of a university student Jae-sik (RYU Jun-yeol) and a Gwangju taxi driver named HWANG (YOO Hai-jin), begins shooting with his news camera. As time passes the situation grows and serious, and Man-seob keeps thinking of his young daughter at home all alone. Written by Showbox A Taxi Driver is a 2017 Korean Korean-language Action Drama film featuring Song Kang-ho, Thomas Kretschmann, Kang-ho Song, Hae-jin Yoo, Jun-yeol Ryu, Hyuk-kwon Park and Jin-sang Kim. The Lamp was the production house involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Park Un-kyoung and Choi Ki-sup. A Taxi Driver is written by Eom Yu-na and directed by Jang Hoon. Showbox acquired the distribution rights for the film. A Taxi Driver was released on 7th December 2017 in Korean,English and German languages and takes a screen time of 137 minutes. A Taxi Driver was made on a budget of $15 billion and at the box office it grossed only $88 million. Cinematography was done by Go Nak-seon and editing by Kim Sang-bum and Kim Jae-bum. The music was composed by Jo Yeong-wook.
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