Yongguk with Jin-hee a cheerleader and his baseball team take the same train as Seok-woo and his daughter, for Busan. When passengers turn into zombies and attack, only Yong-guk, Jon-hee and two baseballers survive in their car.
When the KTX goes to Daejeon station, the passengers discover that the army, supposed to protect them on their arrival, has been infected. Yong-guk joins Seok-woo, who has separated from his daughter, and another man named Sang-hwa. Together they catch up on the train that has restarted and the other two players are killed in the process. Yong-guk phones Jin-hee in another car, informing her that he is the only one to have escaped. Then, Seok-woo learns that his daughter Su-ann and Sang-hwa's wife, Seong-kyeong (with In-gil an old lady and a homeless person) are stuck in toilets because of zombies. The three decide to join them, crossing the wagons infested with zombies. However, they meet the baseball team and Yong-guk refuse to fight against them.
Despite this, they find their loved ones and head for Jin-hee's car, Yong-suk a rich businessman and the last passengers, the monsters after them. Only, Yong-suk thinks they are infected and blocks the door, preventing them from entering. For their part, Yong-guk and the others must block their own wagon against the zombies. The baseball player has no choice but to break the glass door with his bat. Sang-hwa and In-gil are finally infected, and the rest of the group manages to get into the wagon.
However, they are not welcome, and Ki-chul, a steward tells them to get on the train's bridge, which they do with Jin-hee. The heroes witness the death of the rest of the passengers, after Jong-gil (In-gil's sister) allowed the zombies to kill the rest of the passengers because of their selfishness. In an unknown way, Yong-suk and Ki-chul managed to escape to the restroom. Later, the train conductor announces that he is going to look for another KTX, since the track on which his is located is blocked by goods.
Yong-guk and the others then come out of the current train, stopping. Yong-suk also leaves the train, pushing Ki-chul on the zombies, killing him. As they find a way to find the train started by the driver, another burning train collides with another KTX that overturns Seok-woo, his daughter, Seong-kyeong and the homeless and separates them from the two teenagers. Yong-guk and Jin-hee think they are dead and continue their search.
They borrow the door of a train to cross the railroad and meet Yong-suk. The latter throws Jin-hee on the zombies and gets bitten. Yong-guk, saddened, stays with her and is bitten in turn, around the neck. He probably turned into a zombie off screen.
The film premiered in the Midnight Screenings section of the 2016 Cannes Film Festival on 13th of May.[6][7][8][9] On 7 August, the film set a record as the first Korean film of 2016 to break the audience record of over 10 million theatergoers.[10][11]
The movie successfully launched the Train to Busan film series, with the animated prequel Seoul Station released in 2016 and a standalone sequel named Peninsula released in 2020. Another installment and an American-produced adaptation are also in development.
Fund manager Seok-woo is a cynical workaholic and a divorced father. His estranged daughter Su-an wants to spend her birthday with her mother Nayoung in Busan. Seok-woo sees a video of Su-an attempting to sing "Aloha ʻOe" at her singing recital and succumbing to stage fright as a result of his absence. Overcome with guilt, he decides to grant Su-an's birthday wish. The next day, they board the KTX 101 at Seoul Station, en route to Busan. Other passengers include Sang-hwa and his pregnant wife Seong-kyeong, CEO Yon-suk, a high school baseball team including player Yong-guk and his cheerleader girlfriend Jin-hee, elderly sisters In-gil and Jong-gil, and a traumatized homeless stowaway hiding in the bathroom. Before the train departs, an ill woman runs onto the train unnoticed. She turns into a zombie and attacks a train attendant, who also turns. The infection spreads rapidly throughout the train.
A blocked track at the East Daegu Station forces the survivors to stop and search for another train. Yon-suk escapes after pushing Ki-chul into the zombies. A flaming locomotive derails, separating the group and trapping Seok-woo, Su-an, Seong-kyeong and the homeless man underneath a carriage filled with zombies. Meanwhile, Yon-suk runs into Jin-hee and Yong-guk, pushing the former into a zombie in his attempts to escape. Heartbroken, Yong-guk stays with Jin-hee until she turns and kills him. The conductor starts a locomotive on another track but is also thrown to the zombies while trying to save an injured Yon-suk. Seok-woo finds a way out from under the carriage, but the escape route is shortly afterward blocked by falling debris. The homeless man sacrifices himself to buy time for Seok-woo to clear the debris, and he, Su-an and Seong-kyeong manage to escape onto the new locomotive.
After fighting off zombies hanging onto the locomotive, they encounter Yon-suk, who is on the verge of turning into a zombie and is begging for help. Seok-woo manages to throw him off but is bitten. He puts Su-an and Seong-kyeong inside the engine room, teaches the latter how to operate the train, and says goodbye to the former. In his final moments before he turns, he reminisces the moment of Su-an's birth, before throwing himself off the locomotive.
Due to another train blockage, Su-an and Seong-kyeong are forced to stop the train at a tunnel just prior to Busan. The two exit the train and continue following the tracks on foot through the tunnel. Snipers are stationed on the other side of the tunnel and are prepared to shoot at what they believe to be zombies, but they lower their weapons when they hear Su-an singing "Aloha 'Oe", in tribute to her late father.
The film is based on an original story created by Park Joo-suk. The team tried to reference the movements of the zombies in the game 7 Days to Die and the movements of the dolls from Ghost in the Shell, and also reviewed the movements of the nurses in Silent Hill.[12] The film was filmed in various stations from Daejeon, Cheonan and East Daegu.[12] The water deer in the movie was created using real videos of water deer and 3D modelling.[12] The scenery that is seen outside the train in the film was shot with an LED plate rear screen technique behind the set and by focusing on the characters.[12] The blood vessels of the zombies were drawn with an airbrush. The zombies were styled differently depending on the progress of the infection.[12]
It became the highest-grossing Korean film in Malaysia,[13] Hong Kong,[14] and Singapore.[15] In South Korea, it recorded more than 11 million moviegoers[16] and was the highest-grossing film of the year.[17]
Clark Collis of Entertainment Weekly wrote that the film "borrows heavily from World War Z in its depiction of the fast-moving undead masses while also boasting an emotional core the Brad Pitt-starring extravaganza often lacked," adding that "the result is first-class throughout."[20] At The New York Times, Jeannette Catsoulis selected the film as her "Critic's Pick" and took notice of its subtle class warfare.[21]
In a negative review, David Ehrlich of IndieWire comments that "as the characters whittle away into archetypes (and start making senseless decisions), the spectacle also sheds its unique personality."[22] Kevin Jagernauth of The Playlist wrote: "[Train to Busan] doesn't add anything significant to the zombie genre, nor has anything perceptive to say about humanity in the face of crisis. Sure, it lacks brains, and that's the easy quip to make, but what Train To Busan truly needs, and disappointingly lacks, is heart."[23]
In 2016, British filmmaker Edgar Wright, director of zombie comedy Shaun of the Dead, highly applauded the film, personally recommending it on Twitter and calling it the "best zombie movie I've seen in forever."[24]
American distributor Well Go USA released DVD and Blu-ray versions of Train to Busan on 17 January 2017.[39] FNC Add Culture released the Korean DVD and Blu-ray versions on 22 February 2017. It is also available on Rakuten Viki and Amazon Prime Video streaming. The Indian version is a minute shorter than the original version due to a few violent zombie shots being censored.[citation needed]
In 2016, Gaumont acquired the rights for the English-language remake of the film from Next Entertainment World.[45] In 2018, New Line Cinema, Atomic Monster and Coin Operated were announced to be the co-producing partners for the remake, with Warner Bros. Pictures distributing worldwide, except for France and South Korea. Indonesian director Timo Tjahjanto is in talks to helm the film, while Gary Dauberman adapts the screenplay and co-produces the film alongside James Wan.[46][47] In December 2021, the film's official title was revealed to be The Last Train to New York scheduled to be released 21 April 2023.[48] However, in July 2022, Warner Bros. removed the film off the release schedule[49] with Evil Dead Rise, another New Line Cinema film, taking its original release date.
An Overwatch 2 player has discovered an unusual interaction with the train on the Busan map after years of playing the game. The Busan map, originally introduced in 2018, has been brought back in Overwatch 2, and this new clip reveals a surprising and potentially beneficial use of its train.
Before the release of Overwatch 2, the original game featured 32 maps with various objectives such as Assault, Escort, and Hybrid. It also had 31 heroes, and the sequel has been steadily expanding this roster, with the latest addition being Venture. When Overwatch 2 launched, some classic maps were initially absent, but Blizzard has been reintroducing them, like Hanamura, which became Hanaoka in April. Among these updated maps is Busan, which includes an unusual train interaction that may be advantageous for some players.
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