5 Korean Films Receive Awards at 21st Fantasia Film Festival
It was another big year for Korean films at the Fantasia International Film Festival, with no less than five awards spread among the 14 Korean features and shorts invited to the Montreal-based fest. Top among them was
A Taxi Driver, which earned the Cheval Noir Best Actor award for its star
SONG Kang-ho.
The fourth feature from
JANG Hun,
A Taxi Driver was invited to close the festival on the same day that it started its sensational box office run back in Korea, where it has so far accrued 5.8 million viewers (USD 39.86 million) in eight days. SONG plays a cabbie who drives a German reporter, played by Thomas Kretschmann, from Seoul to the city of Gwangju to cover the protest of May, 1980.