A Taxi Driver 逆權司機 (2017) (Blu Ray) (English Subtitled) (US Version)

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Product Title:	A Taxi Driver (2017) (Blu-ray) (Hong Kong Version)
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Artist Name(s):	Song Kang Ho (Actor) \| Thomas Kretschmann (Actor) \| Yu Hae Jin (Actor) \| Um Tae Goo(Actor) \| Park Hyuk Kwon (Actor) \| Ryu Jun Yeol (Actor) \| Choi Gwi Hwa (Actor)
Director:	Jang Hoon
Blu-ray Region Code:	A - Americas (North, Central and South except French Guiana), Korea, Japan, South East Asia (including Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan)
Release Date:	April 17, 2018
Language:	Korean
Subtitles:	English
Country of Origin:	South Korea
Picture Format:	[HD] High Definition
Aspect Ratio:	1.78 : 1
Duration:	137 minutes
Sound Information:	Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital EX(TM) / THX Surround EX(TM)
Disc Format(s):	Blu-ray
Screen Resolution:	1080p (1920 x 1080 progressive scan)
Publisher:	Well Go USA
Package Weight:	100 (g)

Product Description
In this powerful true story set in 1980, a down-on-his-luck taxi driver from Seoul is hired by a foreign journalist who wants to go to the town of Gwangju for the day. They arrive to find a city under siege by the military government, with the citizens, led by a determined group of college students, rising up to demand freedom. What began as an easy fare becomes a life-or-death struggle in the midst of the Gwangju Uprising, a critical event in modern South Korea.

Language: Korean (original)
Subtitles: English

Review
History and commerce combine to terrific effect in the protest drama A Taxi Driver. --Screen Anarchy

...a fantastic film... --Daily Grindhouse

A richly imagined tribute to a working-class hero. --The Hollywood Reporter

A Taxi Driver

Blue Dragon Awards - Best Film Best Actor Audience Choice Award Best Music

Director
Jang Hun	〈The Front Line〉 Blue Dragon Awards - Best Director (Nominated)

Cast
Song Kang Ho	〈The Attorney〉 Blue Dragon Awards - Best Actor
Thomas Kretschmann	〈The Pianist〉
Yoo Hae Jin	〈Confidential Assignment〉 Blue Dragon Awards - Best Supporting Actor (Nominated)
Ryu Jun Yeol	〈Reply 1988〉 Baek Sang Art Awards - Best New Actor

Synopsis

May 1980. A Seoul taxi driver named Man-seob (SONG Kang-ho) comes across an offer too good to be true. If he drives a foreign passenger from Seoul down to Gwangju and back again before the curfew, he'll be paid the unthinkable sum of 100,000 won – enough to cover several months of unpaid rent. Without stopping to ask the details, he picks up the German reporter Peter (Thomas Kretschmann) and sets off along the highway.

Although stopped by police roadblocks at the edge of Gwangju, Man-seob is desperate to earn his taxi fare, and eventually manages to find a way into the city. There they encounter students and ordinary citizens taking part in large-scale demonstrations against the government. Man-seob, alarmed by the danger in the air, pleads with Peter to go quickly back to Seoul. But Peter ignores him, and with the help of a university student Jae-sik (RYU Jun-yeol) and a Gwangju taxi driver named HWANG (YOO Hai-jin), begins shooting with his news camera. As time passes the situation grows more and more serious, and Man-seob keeps thinking of his young daughter at home all alone.