South Korea Synopsis
포크레인
20 years after discharge from the army and now an excavator driver, a former paratrooper who had been mobilized to suppress the May 18th Democratic Uprising in Korea in 1980, happens to find a skull in the ground one day. Driving his excavator, he pays visits to his former superiors one by one and realizes they were all both assailants and victims of the times.
The 2016–2018 South Korea Window
268 South Korea films released in this three-year window, ranked here by audience rating. Excavator sits at position #78.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Excavator. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Other Titles From Kim Ki Duk Film
The 2010s South Korea Landscape
Catalog density by release year in the 2010s. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Excavator premiered. 719 total titles in this decade from South Korea.
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #338 of 1,397 South Korea films indexed here (76th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is +0.7 points above the South Korea average of 6.9/10.
Among South Korea Drama productions specifically: #248 of 868 (top 29%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | South Korea |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Korean |
| Production Companies | Kim Ki Duk Film |
| Runtime | 1h 32m |
| Release Date | July 27, 2017 |
| IMDb | tt7506740 |