Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 138 min
- Language
- Korean
- Country
- South Korea
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
- In Korean — subtitles on.
The story
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.
- taxi
- taxi driver
- protest
- based on true story
- democracy
- historical event
- 1980s
- gwangju uprising
- gwangju
- democratization movement
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Song Kang-ho
Kim Man-seob
Thomas Kretschmann
Jürgen Hinzpeter
Yoo Hai-jin
Hwang Tae-sul
Ryu Jun-yeol
Gu Jae-sik
- Park Hyuk-kwon — Reporter Choi
- Choi Gwi-hwa — Civvies Leader
- Cha Soon-bae — Driver Cha
- Shin Dam-su — Driver Sin
- Ryu Sung-hyun — Driver Ryoo
- Um Tae-goo — Illegal checkpoint Sergeant First Class Park
- Min-hee Park — Kwon Joong-ryeong
- Lee Jung-eun — Hwang Tae-sool's wife
- Eun-mi Yoo — Kim Eun-jeong
- Seo Hyun-woo — Security Command
- Ko Chang-seok — Sang-gu's Father
Production
- Rating
- 8.0 / 10 · 1,202 ratings
- Studio
- The LAMP, Showbox
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
