Typhoon (2005 film)

Typhoon
Theatrical release poster
Korean name
Hangul
Hanja
Revised RomanizationTaepung
McCune–ReischauerT‘aep‘ung
Directed byKwak Kyung-taek
Written byKwak Kyung-taek
An Yeong-su
Produced byYang Joong-gyeong
Park Seong-keun
StarringJang Dong-gun
Lee Jung-jae
Lee Mi-yeon
CinematographyHong Kyung-pyo
Edited byPark Kwang-il
Music byKim Hyung-suk
Distributed byCJ Entertainment
Release date
  • December 14, 2005 (2005-12-14)
Running time
124 minutes
CountrySouth Korea
LanguagesKorean
English
Thai
Russian
Budget₩17 billion
Box officeUS$26.2 million[1]

Typhoon (Korean태풍; RRTaepung) is a 2005 South Korean action film directed by Kwak Kyung-taek and starring Jang Dong-gun, Lee Jung-jae, and Lee Mi-yeon.[2][3][4] Jang plays a vengeful refugee-turned-pirate who plans a massive attack on North and South Korea. A top South Korean naval officer (Lee Jung-jae) is assigned the task to stop his plans and execute him.

Typhoon was the highest budget South Korean film at the time, with a budget of over 15 million dollars, or about 17 billion won. The film was shot in three countries: South Korea, Thailand, Russia.

  1. ^ "Typhoon (2006)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 4 June 2012.
  2. ^ "Typhoon Puts Action Above Character Development". The Chosun Ilbo. 9 December 2005. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
  3. ^ "Jang Dong-gun's New Film Typhoon". CRI English. 3 January 2006. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
  4. ^ Griffiths, Paul (20 April 2007). "Typhoon (2005) Film Review". Eye for Film. Retrieved 4 June 2012.

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