On this episode, we're leaving the 1960's behind and jumping to South Korea in 1980. In Jang Hoon's A Taxi Driver (2017) we get a wild sampling of genres in a remarkably well balanced film. It's an action film. A single father supporting his daughter story. It’s dramatic and also quite goofy. It’s based on a actual events, but it’s also highly fictionalized. It documents political history while being oddly apolitical at times. And it's a journalism film too.  International treasure Song Kang-ho stars as a Seoul cabbie who's transporting a German journalist to cover what is rumored to be a student protest. They both become unlikely witnesses and participants in the 1980 Gwangju Uprising and the massacre at the hands of governemnt forces.  If you're up for a marathon of South Korean films, here is the five film lineup Aaron mentions that covers the politics and events from 1979-1981: <ul> <li dir="ltr">The Man Standing Next (2020)</li> <li dir="ltr">The President’s Last Bang (2005)</li> <li dir="ltr">12.12: The Day (2023)</li> <li dir="ltr">A Taxi Driver (2017)</li> <li dir="ltr">The Attorney (2013)</li> </ul> Follow us at: <a href= "https://www.patreon.com/politicsofcinema?fan_landing=true">Patreon</a> / <a href="https://www.instagram.com/politicsofcinema/">Instagram</a> / <a href="https://letterboxd.com/AaronSpears/">Letterboxd</a> / <a href="https://www.facebook.com/politicsofcinema">Facebook</a>