Tuesday, November 01, 2016

[Thriller/Zombie] Train to Busan (부산행) 2016




Seok-woo, a divorced fund manager, decides to take his young daughter Su-an to her mother in Busan as her birthday gift. They board the KTX (a Korean High-speed rail) at a station in Seoul. The train is also occupied by the tough working-class husband Sang-hwa and his pregnant wife Seong-kyeong, a high school baseball team, rich but selfish CEO Yon-suk, elderly sisters In-gil and Jong-gil, and a homeless man.

As the train departs, a spasmodic young woman boards the train with a bite wound on her leg, and she soon succumbs to the zombie infection. Zombified, she attacks a passing female train attendant who had attempted to resuscitate her, and the zombie infection spreads. The zombies infect the baseball team and other passengers, but baseball player Yong-guk, his girlfriend Jin-hee, and two other students escape by fleeing to a front car. News broadcasts report zombie outbreaks throughout cities in Korea. The train stops at Daejeon, which had reportedly been placed under military quarantine, but the station is seemingly deserted. However, when the passengers disembark, they discover that the military have all been zombified, and they attempt to return to the train. Zombies attack the train, causing Seong-kyeong, In-gil and the homeless man to retreat to the rear of the train and into a bathroom with Su-an. Realizing the dire situation they are in, the conductor restarts the train to head to Busan, where a successful quarantine zone has reportedly been established.

Seok-Woo realizes that Su-an is not in her seat. He races with Sang-hwa and Yong-guk to rescue his daughter and the others before being chased back to the front of the train by the horde of infected passengers. They manage to reach the front train car, but Yon-suk and the passengers had sealed the car door before them, fearing infection. Yong-guk tries to break the front door open while Seok-Woo and Sang-hwa try to block the zombies from entering their cabin. However, Sang-hwa is bitten. He tells Seok-Woo to flee and asks him to take care of his wife Seong-kyeong as he begins to transform into a zombie. Just as Yong-guk and Seok-Woo force the door open, In-gil sacrifices herself to buy the others' time to escape to the safe cabin, disheartening her sister Jong-gil.

Outraged, Seok-woo punches Yon-suk for refusing them entry, as he believes Sang-hwa and In-gil's deaths could have been prevented. However, Yon-suk claims that Seok-woo is infected due to the splattered blood over his clothes. He and the other passengers fearfully demand the escapees to isolate themselves in another part of the car. Jong-gil sees her zombified sister through the glass door, and realizes that she had willingly sacrificed her own life for the sake of others. She angrily denounces the selfishness of the other passengers in the car. She thanks her sister and opens the door, letting the zombies rush in and kill the passengers in the car, except for Yon-suk and an attendant, who take shelter in one of the restrooms. Later on, Seok-woo gets a call from his employee; he stated that Busan is safe, and their military's defense proved successful, but one of their projects claimed responsible for the outbreak.

Due to a train wreck blocking their track at East Daegu train station, the survivors are forced to stop. As they try to find another train, they are attacked. Yon-Suk gives the attendant to the zombies to escape. He then throws Jin-hee to a zombie to save himself. Despondent, Yong-guk tries to comfort the infected Jin-hee, but she bites him after she turns. The conductor finds and activates a locomotive on another track, and then saves Yon-suk from the zombies. However, Yon-suk, having already been bitten by a zombie, runs ahead to the locomotive, leaving the conductor to be consumed. After the homeless man sacrifices his life to defend the others from the zombies, Seok-woo, Su-an and Seong-kyeong successfully board the locomotive. However, they find Yon-suk in the engine room, on the verge of turning. Seok-woo fights off the zombified Yon-suk, but he is bitten before he throws Yon-suk off the train.

Not wanting to hurt the others, Seok-woo tells Seong-kyeong and Su-an that he needs to let himself go. He asks Seong-kyeong to take care of his daughter, then commits suicide by falling off the train before he is fully transformed. Later, Seong-kyeong and Su-an stop at the blocked tunnel leading to Busan and walk through it. At the exit, soldiers spot the two of them in the tunnel. Because the soldiers cannot confirm they are not zombies in the darkness, their commander orders them to shoot. As the soldiers prepare to fire, one of them hears a child singing a song, thus proving that they are survivors, not zombies. They rush to the rescue while Su-an tearfully sings.

More Details: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_to_Busan>

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