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Train to Busan (2016)
While a zombie virus breaks out in South Korea, passengers struggle to survive on the train from Seoul to Busan.
Train to Busan (Korean: 부산행; Hanja: 釜山行; RR: Busanhaeng; lit. To Busan) is a 2016 South Korean action horror film directed by Yeon Sang-ho and starring Gong Yoo, Jung Yu-mi, Ma Dong-seok, Kim Su-an, Choi Woo-shik, Ahn So-hee and Kim Eui-sung. The film mostly takes place on a high-speed train from Seoul to Busan as a zombie apocalypse suddenly breaks out in the country and threatens the safety of the passengers.
The film premiered in the Midnight Screenings section of the 2016 Cannes Film Festival on 13 May. On 7 August, the film set a record as the first Korean film of 2016 to break the audience record of over 10 million theatergoers. The film serves as a reunion for Gong Yoo and Jung Yu-mi, who both starred in the 2011 film The Crucible. A sequel, Peninsula, was released in South Korea on July 15, 2020.
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Train to Busan (2016) Trailer
Train to Busan (2016)
The claustrophobic tension of “Train to Busan” is amplified after a brilliantly staged sequence in a train station in which our surviving travelers learn that the entire country has gone brain-hungry. They discover that the undead can’t quite figure out door handles and are mostly blind, so tunnels and lines of sight become essential. Sang-ho also keeps up his social commentary, giving us characters who want to do anything to survive, and others who will do what it takes to save others.
Early in the film, Seok-woo tells his daughter, “At a time like this, only watch out for yourself,” but he learns that this isn’t the advice we should live by or pass down to our children. Without spoiling anything, the survivors of “Train to Busan” are only so lucky because of the sacrifice of others. And the film is thematically stronger than your average zombie flick in the way it captures how panic can make monsters of us all, and it is our responsibility to overcome that base instinct in times of crisis.
After the near-perfect first hour of “Train to Busan,” the film slows its progress and makes a few stops that feel repetitive, but the journey recovers nicely for a memorable finale. You could call it “Train of the Living Dead” or “’Snowpiercer’ with Zombies.” Whatever you call it, if it’s playing in your city and you’ve ever been entertained by a zombie movie, it’s hard to believe you wouldn’t be entertained by this one.
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Train to Busan (2016) Credits
Train to Busan (2016)
118 minutes
Cast
Gong Yoo as Seok Woo
Ma Dong-Seok as Sang Hwa
Jung Yoo-mi as Sung Gyeong
Choi Woo-shik as Yeong Gook
Ahn So-hee as Jin Hee
Kim Soo-Ahn as Soo Ahn
Director
- Yeon Sang-Ho
Writer
- Yeon Sang-Ho
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Train to Busan (2016) Plot
Fund manager Seok-woo is a cynical workaholic and divorced father of his daughter Su-an, who wants to spend her birthday with her mother in Busan. Seok-woo sees a video of Su-an attempting to sing “Aloha ʻOe” at her singing recital and succumbing to stage fright as a result of his absence. Overcome with guilt, he decides to grant Su-an’s birthday wish.
The next day, they board the KTX 101 at Seoul Station, en route to Busan. Other passengers include Sang-hwa and his pregnant wife Seong-kyeong, COO Yon-suk, a high school baseball team including player Yong-guk and his cheerleader girlfriend Jin-hee, elderly sisters In-gil and Jong-gil, train attendant Ki-chul, and a traumatized homeless stowaway hiding in the bathroom. As the train departs, an ill young woman runs onto the train unnoticed. She turns into a zombie and attacks a train attendant, who also turns. The infection spreads rapidly throughout the train.
The group escapes to another car and locks the doors. Internet reports and phone calls make it known that an epidemic is spreading southward across the country. After the train stops at Daejeon Station, the surviving passengers find the city overrun by zombies and hastily retreat back to the train, splitting up into different train cars in the ensuing chaos.
Seok-woo learns by phone that his company is indirectly involved in the disaster. The military establishes a quarantine zone near Busan, to which the engineer sets a course. Seok-woo, Sang-hwa and Yong-guk – who have become separated from their loved ones – fight their way to where Su-an and Seong-kyeong are hiding with In-gil and the homeless man. Once regrouped, they struggle through the zombie horde to the front train car – where the rest of the passengers are sheltered.
At the prompting of Yon-suk and Ki-chul, the passengers prevent the survivors from entering, fearing that they are infected. Sang-hwa sacrifices himself to give the others time to force open the door and enter the car, but In-gil is killed. Yon-suk and the passengers demand that the survivors isolate themselves in the front vestibule. However, Jong-gil – disgusted at the passengers and despairing for the loss of her sister – deliberately opens the other door and allows the zombies to enter and kill the rest of the car’s passengers. Yon-suk and Ki-chul escape by hiding in the bathroom.
A blocked track at the East Daegu train station forces the survivors to stop and search for another train. Yon-suk escapes after pushing Ki-chul into the zombies, then later does the same with Jin-hee when they run into each other on the tracks. Heartbroken, Yong-guk stays with Jin-hee until she turns and kills him. The train conductor starts a locomotive on another track, but is also thrown to the zombies while trying to save an injured Yon-suk. A flaming locomotive derails and traps the remaining survivors, but Seok-woo finds a way out. The rest of the group is trapped again by falling debris.
The homeless man sacrifices himself to buy time for Seok-woo to clear the debris and Su-an and Seong-kyeong to escape onto the new locomotive. After fighting off zombies hanging onto the locomotive, they encounter Yon-suk, who is on the verge of turning into a zombie and is begging for help, having been bitten when the conductor saved him. Seok-woo manages to throw him off, but is bitten.
He puts Su-an and Seong-kyeong inside the engine room, teaches Seong-kyeong how to operate the train, and says goodbye to his daughter before throwing himself off the locomotive. Due to another train blockage, Su-an and Seong-kyeong are forced to stop the train at a tunnel just prior to Busan.
The two exit the train and continue following the tracks on foot through the tunnel. Snipers are stationed on the other side of the tunnel and are prepared to shoot at what they believe to be zombies, but they lower their weapons and rush towards them to help them when they hear Su-an singing “Aloha ʻOe”.
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Train to Busan (2016) Box office
Train to Busan grossed $80.5 million in South Korea, $2.2 million in the United States and Canada, and $15.8 million in other territories, for a total worldwide gross of $98.5 million.
It became the highest-grossing Korean film in Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Singapore. In South Korea, it recorded more than 11 million moviegoers and was the highest grossing film of the year.
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Train to Busan (2016) Critical Response
The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 94% of 118 critics have given the film a positive review, with an average rating of 7.60/10. The website’s critics consensus states: “Train to Busan delivers a thrillingly unique — and purely entertaining — take on the zombie genre, with fully realized characters and plenty of social commentary to underscore the bursts of skillfully staged action.” Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating to reviews, assigned the film an average score of 72 out of 100, based on 16 critics, indicating “generally favorable reviews.”
Clark Collis of Entertainment Weekly wrote that the film “borrows heavily from World War Z in its depiction of the fast-moving undead masses while also boasting an emotional core the Brad Pitt-starring extravaganza often lacked,” adding that “the result is first-class throughout.” At The New York Times, Jeannette Catsoulis selected the film as her “Critic’s Pick” and took notice of its subtle class warfare.
In a negative review, David Ehrlich of IndieWire comments that “as the characters whittle away into archetypes (and start making senseless decisions), the spectacle also sheds its unique personality.” Kevin Jagernauth of The Playlist wrote: “[Train to Busan] doesn’t add anything significant to the zombie genre, nor has anything perceptive to say about humanity in the face of crisis. Sure, it lacks brains, and that’s the easy quip to make, but what Train To Busan truly needs, and disappointingly lacks, is heart.”
British filmmaker Edgar Wright highly applauds the film, personally recommending it on Twitter and calling it the “best zombie movie I’ve seen in forever.”
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Train to Busan (2016) Accolades
Award | Date of ceremony | Category | Recipient(s) | Result | Ref(s) |
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Asian Film Awards | 21 March 2017 | Best Actor | Gong Yoo | Nominated | |
Best Supporting Actor | Ma Dong-seok | Nominated | |||
Best Editor | Yang Jin-mo | Nominated | |||
Best Visual Effects | Jung Hwang-su | Nominated | |||
Best Costume Designer | Kwon Yoo-jin and Rim Seung-hee | Nominated | |||
Blue Dragon Film Awards | 25 November 2016 | Best Film | Train to Busan | Nominated | |
Best Supporting Actor | Kim Eui-sung | Nominated | |||
Ma Dong-seok | Nominated | ||||
Best Supporting Actress | Jung Yu-mi | Nominated | |||
Best New Director | Yeon Sang-ho | Nominated | |||
Best Art Direction | Lee Mok-won | Nominated | |||
Best Screenplay | Park Joo-seok | Nominated | |||
Best Editing | Yang Jin-mo | Nominated | |||
Best Cinematography | Lee Hyeong-deok | Nominated | |||
Best Lighting | Park Jeong-woo | Nominated | |||
Technical Award | Kwak Tae-yong and Hwang Hyo-gyoon (special make-up) | Won | |||
Audience Choice Award for Most Popular Film | Train to Busan | Won | |||
Buil Film Awards | 7 October 2016 | Best Film | Train to Busan | Nominated | |
Best Supporting Actor | Kim Eui-sung | Won | |||
Best Supporting Actress | Jung Yu-mi | Nominated | |||
Best Cinematography | Lee Hyeong-deok | Nominated | |||
Best Art Direction | Lee Mok-won | Nominated | |||
Yu Hyun-mok Film Arts Award | Yeon Sang-ho | Won | |||
Fangoria Chainsaw Awards | N/A | Best Foreign-Language Film | Train to Busan | Won | |
Best Actor | Gong Yoo | Nominated | |||
Korean Association of Film Critics Awards | 24 November 2016 | Technical Award | Train to Busan | Won | |
Saturn Awards | 28 June 2017 | Best Horror Film | Nominated | ||
Baeksang Arts Awards | 3 May 2017 | Best Film | Nominated | ||
Best Supporting Actor | Kim Eui-sung | Won | |||
Ma Dong-seok | Nominated | ||||
Best New Director | Yeon Sang-ho | Won | |||
Chunsa Film Awards | May 24, 2017 | Technical Award | Kwak Tae-yong | Won | |
Special Audience Awardfor Best Film | Train to Busan | Won |
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