A TAXI DRIVER 2017 MOVIE MOVIE
The movie will be released in South Korea in August. ▲ The stars of the new movie "A Taxi Driver" - Yoo Hae-jin, Song Kang-ho and Ryu Jun-yeol (L to R) - pose for a photo during a publicity event in Seoul on June 20, 2017. However, Kim Sa-bok's son mentioned that his father often drank to endure the pain he felt after coming back from Gwangju, and eventually passed away in 1984. Kim Sa-bok is known to have interacted with foreign journalists and figures involved in democracy movement before 1980 as he had already learned English and Japanese by himself and was also interested in the movement. ▲ This photo, provided by Kim Sa-bok's son Kim Seung-pil, shows Jürgen Hinzpeter (L) and Kim Sa-bok (R). However, shortly after the release of the movie, Kim Sa-bok's son, Kim Seung-pil, released a photo taken of Hinzpeter and his father, who drove a taxi belonging to the Seoul Palace Hotel, to the media and the actual story of Kim Sa-bok was made known to the public. Some of Hinzpeter's hair and nail clippings were left in a tombstone of the May 18 memorial garden in Mangwol-dong following his desire to be buried in Gwangju.Īt the time of the film's production, there was little information on Man-seob's character except for the fact it was based on a real driver named Kim Sa-bok, who drove Hinzpeter to and from Gwangju, so most of the character's story was fictional. Helmed by Jang Hoon, the film tells the story of a Seoul taxi driver named Man-seop, who happens to take the German reporter to Gwangju, some 330 kilometers south of Seoul, for a large offer of money and witnesses the horrors of the bloody military crackdown on the uprising on May 18, 1980. "A Taxi Driver," a Korean movie about a cabbie who took Hinzpeter to the center of the Gwangju pro-democracy uprising in 1980, became this year's first film to attract more than 10 million moviegoers the same day. ▲ Flowers are laid in front of the grave of German journalist Jürgen Hinzpeter at a cemetery in the southwestern city of Gwangju on Aug. In February 2016, one year after director Jang visited Hinzpeter, the reporter passed away from a chronic disease. "As a reporter I had to go," Hinzpeter replied. The film is based on a real-life story of Jürgen Hinzpeter, who worked as a correspondent in the Tokyo branch of the German broadcaster ARD-NDR and covered the Gwangju Uprising.Īhead of making the film, director Jang Hoon said he went to Germany in 2015 to meet with Hinzpeter to ask how he covered the events of the Gwangju Uprising. ◇ 'A Taxi Driver' based on a true story with real-life characters The well-known German actor Thomas Kretschmann, who plays Peter, has previously starred in movies such as "The Pianist," "Valkyrie," "Avengers: Age of Ultron," and "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" and was seen visiting Korea after the movie was released. ▲ This EPA photo, shows German actor Thomas Kretschmann arriving for the premiere of US director Bryan Singer's film 'Valkyrie' held at the Odeon Leicester Square in Central London, Britain, 21 January 2009. On the other hand, "A Taxi Driver" started off with 1,400 screens and gradually increased the number of screens and avoid controversy over screen dominance. "A Taxi Driver" is also the biggest box office hit among the four 'Cheonman movies,' which refers to films watched by ten million or more viewers, starring Song, including "The Host" (2006), "The Attorney" (2013) and "Parasite" (2019) based on data provided by KOBIS.Ī week before the release of "A Taxi Driver," "The Battleship Island" became the first movie in the country to be released on more than 2,000 screens, creating controversy for screen dominance. Song Kang-ho, who is second to none within Korea's acting industry, plays the role of Man-seob, a widowed taxi driver working in Seoul, who heads to Gwangju with German journalist Jürgen Hinzpeter(called "Peter" in the movie) on May 18, 1980, and unintentionally gets involved with events of the Gwangju Democratic Uprising against military regime. "A Taxi Driver," which was released in August 2017, attracted 12.18 million viewers and is ranked the eleventh highest-grossing film in the Korean film history, according to KOBIS (Korea Box-office Information System). ▲ This photo, provided by South Korean film distribution company, Showbox, shows the movie poster for "A Taxi Driver." (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap) 'A Taxi Driver' (2017 Directed by Jang Hoon)
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