A Taxi Driver
“Based on true events, an untold story of a taxi driver.”
May, 1980. Man-seob is a taxi driver in Seoul who lives from hand to mouth, raising his young daughter alone. One day, he hears that there is a foreigner who will pay big money for a drive down to Gwangju city. Not knowing that he’s a German journalist with a hidden agenda, Man-seob takes the job.
Genres
Drama, History
Studio
The LAMP
Language
ko
Status
Released
How A Taxi Driver performed
Budget
$12.8M
Worldwide Gross
$81.9M
Gross Profit
$69.1M
Return
6.4× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$12M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~48/52, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (30% of the domestic run, typical for Drama) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Kim Man-seob
Song Kang-ho
Kim Man-seob
Jürgen Hinzpeter
Thomas Kretschmann
Jürgen Hinzpeter
Hwang Tae-sul
Yoo Hai-jin
Hwang Tae-sul
Gu Jae-sik
Ryu Jun-yeol
Gu Jae-sik
Reporter Choi
Park Hyuk-kwon
Reporter Choi
Civvies Leader
Choi Gwi-hwa
Civvies Leader
Driver Cha
Cha Soon-bae
Driver Cha
Driver Sin
Shin Dam-su
Driver Sin
Driver Ryoo
Ryu Sung-hyun
Driver Ryoo
Illegal checkpoint Sergeant First Class Park
Um Tae-goo
Illegal checkpoint Sergeant First Class Park
Kwon Joong-ryeong
Park Min-hee
Kwon Joong-ryeong
Hwang Tae-sool's wife
Lee Jung-eun
Hwang Tae-sool's wife
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