South Korea A Taxi Driver returned 6.4× its production cost, earning $81.9M against a $12.8M budget — one of the highest-return South Korea films in our catalog.
Synopsis
택시운전사
“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.
The 2016–2018 South Korea Window
268 South Korea films released in this three-year window, ranked here by audience rating. A Taxi Driver sits at position #33.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with A Taxi Driver. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
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The 2010s South Korea Landscape
Catalog density by release year in the 2010s. Highlighted year (yellow) is when A Taxi Driver premiered. 719 total titles in this decade from South Korea.
Budget & Box Office Efficiency
At a 2h 18m runtime, production spent $93K per minute on screen and earned $594K per minute back.
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #135 of 1,397 South Korea films indexed here (90th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is +1.2 points above the South Korea average of 6.9/10.
Among South Korea Action productions specifically: #16 of 266 (top 6%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | South Korea |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Korean |
| Spoken Languages | Korean, Japanese, English, German |
| Production Companies | The LAMP, Showbox |
| Runtime | 2h 18m |
| Release Date | August 2, 2017 |
| IMDb | tt6878038 |