Typhoon | |
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Korean name | |
Hangul | |
Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | Taepung |
McCune–Reischauer | T‘aep‘ung |
Directed by | Kwak Kyung-taek |
Written by | Kwak Kyung-taek An Yeong-su |
Produced by | Yang Joong-gyeong Park Seong-keun |
Starring | Jang Dong-gun Lee Jung-jae Lee Mi-yeon |
Cinematography | Hong Kyung-pyo |
Edited by | Park Kwang-il |
Music by | Kim Hyung-suk |
Distributed by | CJ Entertainment |
Release date |
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Running time | 124 minutes |
Country | South Korea |
Languages | Korean English Thai Russian |
Budget | ₩17 billion |
Box office | US$26.2 million[1] |
Typhoon (Korean: 태풍; RR: Taepung) 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.