Sang-hoon who used to be a bank clerk, drivers a taxi now. He wants to break up with his girlfriend Ju-hee for her future but she makes one last proposition to him. Unexpectedly the plan changes as Sang-hoon ends up as a bank robber’s hostage being coerced into joining the thief on a journey across the country. Dead-end lives are portrayed in this road movie.
Acting
Cho Han-cheul's perfect defeated everyman energy
Direction
Han Seung-ryong's unglamorous Korean backroads
Director
Han Seung-ryong
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during Korea's 2007 indie film boom, it reflects anxieties about unstable employment after the 1997 IMF crisis. Sang-hoon's bank-to-taxi trajectory was painfully recognizable to Korean audiences.
Baek Soo-jang improvised much of his chaotic energy; the original script had Cheol-gu as more menacing, but the actor played him as desperate instead, shifting the entire film's tone.
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