Train to Busan
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| Revised Romanization | Busanhaeng |
| Directed by | Yeon Sang-ho |
| Produced by | Lee Dong-ha |
| Written by | Park Joo-suk |
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| Music by | Jang Young-gyu |
| Cinematography | Lee Hyung-deok |
| Edited by | Yang Jin-mo |
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| Distributed by | Next Entertainment World |
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118 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean |
| Budget | $9 million |
| Box office | $87.5 million |
Train to Busan (Hangul: 부산행; RR: Busanhaeng) is a 2016 South Korean zombie apocalypse horror thriller film directed by Yeon Sang-ho and starring Gong Yoo, Jung Yu-mi and Ma Dong-seok. The film had its premiere in the Midnight Screenings section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival on 13 May.
On 7 August, the film set a record as the first Korean film of 2016 to break the audience record with over 10 million theatergoers.
An animated prequel, Seoul Station, also directed by Sang-ho, was released less than a month later. The film serves as a reunion for Gong Yoo and Jung Yu-mi, who both starred in the 2011 film The Crucible.
Seok-Woo, a divorced fund manager, is a workaholic and absentee father to his young daughter, Su-an. For her birthday the next day, she wishes for her father to bring her to Busan to see her mother. They board the KTX at a station in Seoul, also occupied by tough working-class husband Sang-hwa and his pregnant wife Seong-kyeong, a high school baseball team, a rich but selfish CEO Yon-suk, elderly sisters In-gil and Jon-gil, and a homeless man.
As the train departs, a convulsing young woman boards the train with a bite wound on her leg. The woman becomes a zombie, attacking a train attendant who also turns into a zombie. The infection quickly spreads throughout the train. Baseball player Yong-guk, his girlfriend Jin-hee, and several passengers manage to escape to another car. News broadcasts report zombie outbreaks throughout the country. The train stops at Daejeon, but the surviving passengers find that the city has also been overrun, and they hastily retreat back to the train, splitting up in the chaos. The conductor restarts the train to head to Busan, where a successful quarantine zone has reportedly been established.
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