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A Taxi Driver
2017
· Movie
· 137 min
A
MEANRANK
82/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #429
- IMDb #492
- Google retired #37
- Rotten Tomatoes #564
- Metacritic #1484
- Letterboxd #189
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #240
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1394
- Metacritic Audience #1457
- Criticker #468
- Kinopoisk #90
- AlloCiné #525
- Trakt #134
Every rating
65–98
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 65, highest is Google on 98.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A Seoul taxi driver desperate for money impulsively agrees to drive a German journalist into the city of Gwangju, which has been cut off by the military. He soon finds himself in the middle of the 1980 Gwangju Uprising, risking his life to help document the military's violent crackdown.
Details
- Director
- Jang Hoon
- Writer
- Eom Yu-na
- Released
- 2 August 2017
- Country
- South Korea
- Language
- Korean, English, Japanese, German
- Runtime
- 137 min
- Budget
- $12.8M
- Box office
- $81.9M
- Awards
- 23 wins, 30 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 53 →23 wins from 53 nominations across 14 ceremonies
| 12th Asian Film Awards 2017 | Best Original Music | Jo Yeong-wook | Nominee |
| 12th Asian Film Awards 2017 | Best Supporting Actor | Yoo Hae-jin | Nominee |
| 17th Director's Cut Awards 2017 | Special Mentions | A Taxi Driver | Winner |
| 17th Director's Cut Awards 2017 | Best New Actor | Choi Gwi-hwa | Winner |
| 17th Korea World Youth Film Festival 2017 | Favorite Actor for Middle-Aged Actor | Song Kang-ho | Winner |
| 17th Korea World Youth Film Festival 2017 | Favorite Director | Jang Hoon | Winner |
| 1st The Seoul Awards 2017 | Best Actor (Film) | Song Kang-ho | Winner |
| 1st The Seoul Awards 2017 | Grand Prize (Film) | A Taxi Driver | Nominee |
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38th Blue Dragon Film Awards
9 nominations, 4 won
| Audience Choice Award for Most Popular Film | A Taxi Driver | Winner |
| Best Actor | Song Kang-ho | Winner |
| Best Film | A Taxi Driver | Winner |
| Best Music | Jo Yeong-wook | Winner |
| Best Art Direction | Cho Hwa-sung and Jeong Yi-jin | Nominee |
| Best Director | Jang Hoon | Nominee |
| Best New Actor | Ryu Jun-yeol | Nominee |
| Best Screenplay | Eom Yu-na | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actor | Yoo Hae-jin | Nominee |
26th Buil Film Awards
6 nominations, 3 won
| Best Actor | Song Kang-ho | Winner |
| Best Film | A Taxi Driver | Winner |
| Buil Readers' Jury Award | Jang Hoon | Winner |
| Best Art Direction | Cho Hwa-sung and Jeong Yi-jin | Nominee |
| Best Cinematography | Go Nak-seon | Nominee |
| Best Music | Jo Yeong-wook | Nominee |
3rd Asian World Film Festival
3 nominations, 3 won
| Best Film | A Taxi Driver | Winner |
| Humanitarian Award | A Taxi Driver | Winner |
| Special Mention Award | Song Kang-ho | Winner |
54th Grand Bell Awards
11 nominations, 2 won
| Best Film | A Taxi Driver | Winner |
| Best Planning | A Taxi Driver | Winner |
| Best Actor | Song Kang-ho | Nominee |
| Best Art Direction | Cho Hwa-sung and Jeong Yi-jin | Nominee |
| Best Cinematography | Go Nak-seon | Nominee |
| Best Costume Design | Cho Sang-kyung | Nominee |
| Best Director | Jang Hoon | Nominee |
| Best Editing | Kim Sang-bum and Kim Jae-bum | Nominee |
| Best Music | Jo Yeong-wook | Nominee |
| Best Screenplay | Eom Yu-na | Nominee |
| Technical Award | A Taxi Driver | Nominee |
17th Director's Cut Awards
2 nominations, 2 won
| Best New Actor | Choi Gwi-hwa | Winner |
| Special Mentions | A Taxi Driver | Winner |
17th Korea World Youth Film Festival
2 nominations, 2 won
| Favorite Actor for Middle-Aged Actor | Song Kang-ho | Winner |
| Favorite Director | Jang Hoon | Winner |
25th Korea Culture & Entertainment Awards
2 nominations, 2 won
| Best Director (Film) | Jang Hoon | Winner |
| Best Film | A Taxi Driver | Winner |
37th Korean Association of Film Critics Awards
2 nominations, 2 won
| Best Supporting Actor | Yoo Hae-jin | Winner |
| Top 10 Films | A Taxi Driver | Winner |
1st The Seoul Awards
2 nominations, 1 won
| Best Actor (Film) | Song Kang-ho | Winner |
| Grand Prize (Film) | A Taxi Driver | Nominee |
21st Fantasia International Film Festival
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Actor | Song Kang-ho | Winner |
4th Korean Film Producers Association Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Actor | Song Kang-ho | Winner |
54th Baeksang Arts Awards
6 nominations
| Best Actor (Film) | Song Kang-ho | Nominee |
| Best Director (Film) | Jang Hoon | Nominee |
| Best Film | A Taxi Driver | Nominee |
| Best Screenplay (Film) | Eom Yu-na | Nominee |
| Grand Prize (Film) | A Taxi Driver | Nominee |
| Grand Prize (Film) | Song Kang-ho | Nominee |
23rd Chunsa Film Art Awards
4 nominations
| Best Actor | Song Kang-ho | Nominee |
| Best Director | Jang Hoon | Nominee |
| Best Screenplay | Eom Yu-na | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actor | Ryu Jun-yeol | Nominee |
12th Asian Film Awards
2 nominations
| Best Original Music | Jo Yeong-wook | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actor | Yoo Hae-jin | Nominee |