Train to Busan (10th Anniversary)

Before Yeon Sang-ho’s new film Colony opens at the Roxie on August 28, revisit the international hit that launched him onto the world stage.

Ten years on, the Korean blockbuster that conquered the world returns in 4K. Yeon Sang-ho’s breakout transforms a zombie outbreak aboard a bullet train into one of the great modern action-horror rides: brutal, sentimental, and made for packed movie theaters. Gong Yoo plays a self-absorbed, divorced fund manager taking his young daughter to Busan for her birthday. Before they leave Seoul, the outbreak reaches the station, a bitten passenger makes it onto the train, and the trip becomes a car-by-car fight for survival, with fear spreading almost as fast as the virus. Ma Dong-seok became an international fan favorite here as the passenger everyone wanted on their side.