Train to Busan (2016)

Train to Busan rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.6/10· 301K votes

Rotten Tomatoes95%

Metacritic73%

TMDb7.748/10· 8K votes

With 95% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.6/10 on IMDb and 73/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About Train to Busan

When a zombie virus pushes Korea into a state of emergency, those trapped on an express train to Busan must fight for their own survival.

Cast of Train to Busan

• 

  Gong Yoo

  as Seok-woo

• 

  Kim Su-an

  as Soo-ahn

• 

  Jung Yu-mi

  as Sung-gyeong

• 

  Don Lee

  as Sang-hwa

• 

  Choi Woo-shik

  as Yeong-gook

• 

  An So-hee

  as Jin-hee

• 

  Kim Eui-sung

  as Yong-suk

• 

  Ye Su-jeong

  as In-gil

• 

  Park Myung-shin

  as Jong-gil

• 

  Choi Gwi-hwa

  as Homeless Man

• 

  Jeong Seok-yong

  as Captain of KTX

• 

  Kim Chang-hwan

  as Kim Jin-mo

Train to Busan facts

Original title

부산행

Budget

$8.5M

Box office

$87.5M

Collection

Train to Busan Collection

Our take on Train to Busan

Yeon Sang-ho compresses a national catastrophe into the length of a single train journey: when a zombie virus throws Korea into emergency, the passengers racing toward Busan must fight simply to stay alive. The tight corridors and locked carriages turn every car into its own trap, and the film keeps tightening the vice while carving out real human stakes among the chaos. It moves fast, hits hard and never loses sight of the people inside the panic. Watch it if you want horror-action with genuine momentum and a beating heart under the carnage. A model of how confined space can make survival feel unbearably immediate.