Where Can I Stream Train To Busan

[Cecelia Seiner]

Thefilm 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.

For those who had a spiritual horror awakening watching George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968), you've likely spent a lot of time trying to find a zombie cinema equivalent. Luckily, it's a subgenre that has inspired some fantastic entries into the zombie discourse, from Edgar Wright's comedy Shaun of the Dead (2004) to Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later (2002), and even a Zack Snyder double feature of Dawn of the Dead (2004) and Army of the Dead (2021).

However, sometimes, zombie aficionados tend to get a little insular when it comes to seeking out worthy entries into the pantheon by sleeping on Asian cinema, which is absolutely knocking it out of the park in the genre. Standout examples include Japan's Wild Zero (2000) or One Cut of the Dead (2017), and South Korea's speeding train-meets-zombies classic, 2016's Train to Busan (now streaming on Peacock).

Eight years after Train to Busan was released in theaters, director Yeon Sang-ho's kinetic and clever take on the sub genre remains so fresh because of its timely premise, incredible staging, and heightened stakes. While it wears its homages on its sleeve, borrowing liberally from Snowpiercer (2013) and World War Z (2013), Busan never feels derivative. Sang-ho gives his own twist on those genre greats, and then further distinguishes his own talents by making them feel so singular to his own film.

Busan's zombie scenario is delightfully pedestrian at the start. Seok-woo (Gong Yoo), a guilt-ridden, divorced dad, promises to take his daughter, Su-an (Kim Su-an), to see her mom in Busan for her birthday. They think they're boarding a typical KTX train, not knowing that South Korea is in the throes of a virulent zombie outbreak... at least until a sick woman jumps aboard and attacks after they've left the station.

The claustrophobic, high speed train setting in the first half of the film allows Sang-ho to place the riders, and the audience, into a claustrophobic tube where there's nowhere to hide from what's unfolding. And in a COVID world where humanity has recently experienced the terror of a relentless illness, the proliferation of the virus from the one woman throughout the train hits even harder than it did eight years ago.

More importantly, Sang-ho bothers to make the people inside the train count. There's effort made for us to get to know the people on the train with Seok-woo, so when the situation gets more violent and dire, there's an investment made in not just the lead and his goal to save his daughter, but in the others also trying to survive. And much like Romero's films in the sub genre, there's plenty of social commentary to be had in the cross section of travelers in the train. Whether it's the gate-keeping of the train attendants or the world-weariness and despair of a character like Jong-gil (Park Myung-sin), there's plenty to frustrate and recognize in the human flaws that become so apparent when the world falls apart.

Arguably one of the most distinguishing elements of Train to Busan is Sang-ho's inventive staging and blocking of action scenes on and off the train. Inside the cars, the camera functions almost like a side-scroller video game point of view, as it captures the melees that happen in the narrow aisles. The always cramped environment makes the zombies more visceral for the humans, as they have to use props and weapons intimately. Without breathing room, there's always the threat of a bite just inches away from some vulnerable body part.

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