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.
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- 36 wins & 42 nominations total
Lee Joo-Sil
- Seok-woo's Mother
- (as Joo-sil Lee)
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This has to be one of the finest zombie and horror films in general I have ever seen. Extremely thrilling and captivating from start to finish. Everything in this film has done with passion and care. From the characters and heartbreaking moments they go through, visceral zombie attacks, acting and camera work down to dialogue. Everything works great. This is what World War Z should and could have been. Sure the plot of the film is not original, because yet again we are shown the struggle and survival of people during zombie pandemic, but the way the story is approached and executed is beyond most of the average mainstream horror movies we get these days. If you are a fan of zombie films you will definitely enjoy this horror gem.
The investment manager Seok Woo (Yoo Gong) is a divorced man that lives in Seoul, with his daughter a Soo-an (Soo-an Kim) and his mother. Seok Woo is a selfish man and neglects Soo-an that misses her mother that lives in Busan. On Soo-an's birthday, she asks to visit her mother and Seok Woo travels with her with the intention of returning after lunch. They board the fast train KTX and a sick woman also boards another wagon. During the journey, the woman attacks a train staff and soon all the passenger in the wagon are attacked turning into zombies. Soon Seok Woo realizes that there is a zombie outbreak in South Korea and together with the passenger Sang Hwa (Dong-seok Ma), who is traveling with his pregnant wife Sung Gyeong (Yu-mi Jeong), they isolate the safe front wagons from the infected ones. Along their journey, the non-infected passengers have to fight the zombies and the selfishness of the human being.
"Busanhaeng", a.k.a. "Train to Busan", is one of the best zombie films ever made. The story is original and there is deep character development, which is not usual in horror movies, showing the different behavior of the human being in a stressful situation depending on his or her character (or lack of). The direction is amazing and the action scenes are fantastic. The screenplay is melodramatic but also attractive; the beautiful cinematography and special effects and make-up are highlighted by perfect edition. The cast has good performance but the girl Soo-an Kim is impressive and steals the show. We hope Hollywood industry does not destroy this little gem with the usual remake. My vote is eight.
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"Busanhaeng", a.k.a. "Train to Busan", is one of the best zombie films ever made. The story is original and there is deep character development, which is not usual in horror movies, showing the different behavior of the human being in a stressful situation depending on his or her character (or lack of). The direction is amazing and the action scenes are fantastic. The screenplay is melodramatic but also attractive; the beautiful cinematography and special effects and make-up are highlighted by perfect edition. The cast has good performance but the girl Soo-an Kim is impressive and steals the show. We hope Hollywood industry does not destroy this little gem with the usual remake. My vote is eight.
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Forget about the ordinary and immerse yourself into this amazing zombie thriller experience. If you love thrillers and zombie flicks, then you are in for a ride with this one.
This film has it all: the hero arc, character development, insane action, relentless tension, drama, tear jerk, comedy, special effects, great cinematography and most of all excellent pace!
Well done to the Korean cinema. Excellent film. 9/10
Train to Busan was a treat.
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I can't remember the last time I enjoyed a foreign film this much. The cinematography is excellent, the story is original, and I will definitely be keeping an eye on Sang-ho Yeon's future projects.
A look into Selfishness vs Selflessness and Individual vs The Collective.
I can't remember the last time I enjoyed a foreign film this much. The cinematography is excellent, the story is original, and I will definitely be keeping an eye on Sang-ho Yeon's future projects.
I'm not a big fan of South Korea movies or TV shows but I love zombie movies so I try this one and I didn't disappointed as a zombie movie fan!
Train to Busan is such a great ride, Well Written, A lovely cinematography, wonderful performances with the main cast, and especially unbelievable performance with the zombie actors to this film!
This is the film that you will never forget this year because its all in one movie, FUN RIDE, ACTION RIDE, SUSPENSE RIDE AND DRAMA RIDE! Hollywood zombies films I think you need to think twice now because South Korea zombies will eat you alive!
4over5
Train to Busan is such a great ride, Well Written, A lovely cinematography, wonderful performances with the main cast, and especially unbelievable performance with the zombie actors to this film!
This is the film that you will never forget this year because its all in one movie, FUN RIDE, ACTION RIDE, SUSPENSE RIDE AND DRAMA RIDE! Hollywood zombies films I think you need to think twice now because South Korea zombies will eat you alive!
4over5
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 Jang Young-gyu
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Details
- 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
- Runtime
- 1h 58m(118 min)
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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