A Taxi Driver — not to be confused with that Taxi Driver, or a few more films of the same name — is, like The Battle of Jangsari, “based on true events”, viz. those of Gwangju Uprising in 1980.
The story of the reporter Jürgen Hinzpeter (Thomas Kretschmann) made me think of Another Day of Life. The real hero of the movie though, as you may have guessed from the title, is a titular taxi driver, Kim Man-seob (Song Kang-ho). A powerful film, slightly spoiled by the spectacular but palpably fictional car chase scene during the pair’s escape from Gwangju.
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