2016 ‘부산행’ Directed by Yeon Sang-ho
Martial law is declared when a mysterious viral outbreak pushes Korea into a state of emergency. Those on an express train to Busan, a city that has successfully fended off the viral outbreak, must fight for their own survival…
Gong Yoo Jung Yu-mi Ma Dong-seok Choi Woo-shik Ahn So-hee Kim Su-an Kim Eui-sung Ye Soo-jung Park Myung-shin Choi Gwi-hwa Jeong Seok-yong Kim Chang-hwan Jang Hyuk-jin Shim Eun-kyung Lee Joo-sil Kim Jae-rok Baek Seung-hwan Yeon Sang-ho Choi Woo-sung Cha Chung-hwa Terri Doty Kim Won-Jin Han Ji-eun Han Sung-soo Woo Do-im Lee Joong-ok Kim Ju-hun
Busanhaeng, Invasión Zombie, Voz za Pusan, Invasão Zumbi, 釜山行1, Estación Zombie, Tren a Busan
is there a name for the superiority complex you have when you criticise everyone in zombie movies for making stupid decisions even though you know you’d be the first to die in the same situation.
the whole movie is just an allegory of what it feels like to take public transport to school every morning
A couple of years late of this one. How can one not enjoy this film. Energetic, fun and visually impressive. Some FX are amazing and some not so... but it doesn't really matter because the film kept me engaged.
And that little girl... she can shed a tear! She's fantastic.
Watched on Netflix.
South Korea produces some of the finest cinema, period. Pick your favorite genre, and the Koreans have you covered. Some of my all time favorite movies come from SK. With Train to Busan; it's zombies on a train, and I had a Choo Choo of a fun time.
Heavy as lead, drama. Train to Busan holds nothing back when it comes to the dramatic drama department. Maybe, a tad bit overboard? I think the narrative slightly suffers due to the dramaintenseerific™. At times, I wanted my popcorn action, without the inserted crying scene.
The zombies are fresh. Meaning, they do bring something new to the table. I like their speed, fast infection rate and a certain weakness you need to…
a zombie movie did not just make me cry... like this had no right to be that fucking sad 😭
Absolutely incredible that one of the strategies for dealing with zombies in this movie that works best is “have a strong guy beat them up.”
I’d put this on a list of movies to show Maddie while living in Auckland for the summer (er, winter) and finally pushed to watch it for real tonight when Marvel announced Ma Dong-seok was gonna be in Eternals, and it’s just as fucking phenomenal as I remember. There’s a lot of moments and choices that ring as cheesy or strange but there are just as many moments and choices and balancing acts in this movie that are fucking great. I love it. A zombie movie about compassion. What a joy!
Also, there’s no way the American remake ever becomes a reality, right? My least cynical reasoning is that there are so many important performances to balance with the budget…
For almost 45 minutes, Yeon Sang-ho’s “Train to Busan” is on pace to become the best, most urgent zombie movie since “28 Days Later.” And then — at once both figuratively and literally — this broad Korean blockbuster derails in slow-motion, sliding off the tracks and bursting into a hot mess of generic moments and digital fire.
But oh, those first 45 minutes: they’re genre heaven (or the undead equivalent). Equal parts “Snowpiercer” and “World War Z,” the film introduces itself as the rare pastiche with enough personality to feel like something new. A sequel of sorts to Yeon’s “Seoul Station,” which received limited festival play and never received U.S. distribution, “Train to Busan” unwraps its premise so elegantly that no prior knowledge is required to get swept along by its opening act.
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(i guess mathematically this should be 2.5 stars? i dunno, whatever, it's my life)
