While a zombie virus breaks out in South Korea, passengers struggle to survive on the train from Seoul to Busan.While a zombie virus breaks out in South Korea, passengers struggle to survive on the train from Seoul to Busan.While a zombie virus breaks out in South Korea, passengers struggle to survive on the train from Seoul to Busan.
- Awards
- 36 wins & 42 nominations total
Woo Do-im
- Cabin Attendant Min-ji
- (as Do-im Woo)
Kim Jae-rok
- Mr. Kim
- (as Jae-rok Kim)
Lee Joo-Sil
- Seok-woo's Mother
- (as Joo-sil Lee)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe actor Ma Dong-seok (the man with the pregnant wife) used to be Gong Yoo's personal trainer.
- GoofsFor a train to travel to its destination over vast distances someone, usually an operator from a remote location, needs to keep the track switches on path. From what this movie depicts it is unlikely that the switch operator will stay intact long enough to make the train travel this far and still make it to its destination.
- Alternate versionsThe Indian cinema version is a minute shorter than the original version with a few violent zombie shots being censored.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Evening Urgant: Andrey Knyshev/Bi-2 (2016)
- SoundtracksGoodbye World
Music by Young-gyu Jang
Featured review
Top-notch Zombie movie includes hectic action , thrills , chills , gutsy scenes and loads of gore , regarding several passengers attempting to survive on the train from Seoul to Busan . It is a harrowing zombie horror-thriller that follows a group of terrified passengers fighting their way through a countrywide viral outbreak while trapped on a suspicion-filled, blood-drenched bullet train ride to Busan, a southern resort city that has managed to hold off the zombie hordes... or so everyone hopes . This thrilling film results to one of the highest earning horror movies of the last years , full of eerie scenes with zombies and moving events . It tells the story of the happenings that follow after a zombie apocalypse . While a zombie virus breaks out in South Korea, passengers struggle to survive on the train from Seoul to Busan . As a divorced father, Seok-woo , along with his daughter Su-an, heads for Busan to meet her mother , then he discovers that the world has been taken over by zombies. Shortly after , the father and other passengers struggle to fend off the zombie hordes . It follows a group of survivors on a train , who travel in search of a safe and secure home. The movie goes on to explore the challenges of the passengers on a train and in a station overrun by zombies who take a toll on the survivors, taking on the greatest dangers to their continuing survival when the zombies roam surround . As the characters are changed by the constant exposure to death and some grow willing to do anything to survive. Escape from the zombies! Get on board to stay alive! Life-or-death survival begins
This excellent picture packs noisy action , chills , violence , lots of blood and gore , dealing with life-or-death survival in train bound to Busan . It's a solid film , a terror story plenty of suspense , restless horror, and in cinematographic style . It deals with a merciless fight for survival in which some survivors struggle to fend off the zombie hordes ; as well as competing with other passangers who are prepared to do whatever it takes to survive . The main premise is the following : A divorced daddy spares time with his daughter , as he offers to take her on the train to see her mother in Busan , as the train departs, an abnormal virus spreads from a girl who is infected, and people start to transform to zombies. Will Seok-woo and Su-an make it out alive? .The flesh-eating zombies appearance deliver the goods plenty of screams, shocks and tension . The horror moments are compactly made and fast moving . This movie is the sequel of his animated film Seoul Station, and both releasing in 2016, the movie gained a lot of attention from South Korea, and internationally, because he choose the genre that not a lot of South Korean director choose which is the zombie flick. The movie was screened at the Midnight Screening at Cannes Festival, the movie was rumored to be remake with by the Hollywood production . Train to Busan is the first South Korean movie that gained 10 millions theatergoers in South Korea, and the number is still counting. It achieved a big success thanks to the interesting plot and the Zombies are vey well carried out , excellent make-up and acting , in fact actors who played zombies had to go through zombie school to learn how to walk and move like zombies .
¨Train to Busan¨ has got several Awards and nominations such as : Nominated for a 2016 Blue Dragon Film Award in the Best New Director category , Won the Yu Hyun-mok Film Arts Award a the 2016 Buil Film Awards and Won the Best New Director Award at the 2017 Baeksang Arts Awards . The motion picture was magnificently made by director Yeon Sang-ho , being his debut feature . This filmmaker is very loved by Cannes thanks to his edgy animation. He is a good director, and a fine screen writer . At the beginning he made few short films , then set up his own production house Studio Dadashow in 2004. Yeon Sang Ho known for directing a animated film such as The King of Pigs, The Window, The Fake, and his latest animated film is in 2016 called Seoul Station. Yeon Sang-Ho sometimes created his movie based on his own personal life as well. For example the The King of Pigs, he said that he was inspired by his own life experience, and he cried during the writing time of the script, The Window is based on his life during his mandatory . Train to Busan rating : 8/10 . Above average movie . Well worth warching . The picture will appeal to Zombie-sub-genre fans .
This excellent picture packs noisy action , chills , violence , lots of blood and gore , dealing with life-or-death survival in train bound to Busan . It's a solid film , a terror story plenty of suspense , restless horror, and in cinematographic style . It deals with a merciless fight for survival in which some survivors struggle to fend off the zombie hordes ; as well as competing with other passangers who are prepared to do whatever it takes to survive . The main premise is the following : A divorced daddy spares time with his daughter , as he offers to take her on the train to see her mother in Busan , as the train departs, an abnormal virus spreads from a girl who is infected, and people start to transform to zombies. Will Seok-woo and Su-an make it out alive? .The flesh-eating zombies appearance deliver the goods plenty of screams, shocks and tension . The horror moments are compactly made and fast moving . This movie is the sequel of his animated film Seoul Station, and both releasing in 2016, the movie gained a lot of attention from South Korea, and internationally, because he choose the genre that not a lot of South Korean director choose which is the zombie flick. The movie was screened at the Midnight Screening at Cannes Festival, the movie was rumored to be remake with by the Hollywood production . Train to Busan is the first South Korean movie that gained 10 millions theatergoers in South Korea, and the number is still counting. It achieved a big success thanks to the interesting plot and the Zombies are vey well carried out , excellent make-up and acting , in fact actors who played zombies had to go through zombie school to learn how to walk and move like zombies .
¨Train to Busan¨ has got several Awards and nominations such as : Nominated for a 2016 Blue Dragon Film Award in the Best New Director category , Won the Yu Hyun-mok Film Arts Award a the 2016 Buil Film Awards and Won the Best New Director Award at the 2017 Baeksang Arts Awards . The motion picture was magnificently made by director Yeon Sang-ho , being his debut feature . This filmmaker is very loved by Cannes thanks to his edgy animation. He is a good director, and a fine screen writer . At the beginning he made few short films , then set up his own production house Studio Dadashow in 2004. Yeon Sang Ho known for directing a animated film such as The King of Pigs, The Window, The Fake, and his latest animated film is in 2016 called Seoul Station. Yeon Sang-Ho sometimes created his movie based on his own personal life as well. For example the The King of Pigs, he said that he was inspired by his own life experience, and he cried during the writing time of the script, The Window is based on his life during his mandatory . Train to Busan rating : 8/10 . Above average movie . Well worth warching . The picture will appeal to Zombie-sub-genre fans .
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Official sites
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- Also known as
- Estación zombi. Tren a Busan
- Filming locations
- Daejeon Station, Daejeon, South Korea(first stop)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- ₩10,000,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $2,129,768
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $284,776
- Jul 24, 2016
- Gross worldwide
- $92,767,524
- Runtime1 hour 58 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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