25th New York Asian Film Festival

July 10-26, 2026

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Special Screening

Train to Busan

부산행

Ten years later, Train to Busan is still a monster with an angry engine. Yeon Sang-ho's breakout transforms a zombie outbreak aboard the KTX into one of the great modern action-horror rides: brutal, sentimental, and made for packed movie theaters. Gong Yoo plays a self-absorbed, divorced fund manager taking his young daughter to Busan for her birthday. Before they leave Seoul, the outbreak reaches the station, a bitten passenger makes it onto the train, and the trip becomes a car-by-car fight for survival, with fear spreading almost as fast as the virus. Ma Dong-seok became an international fan favorite here as the passenger everyone wanted on their side. NYAFF presents a new 4K restoration for the film's 10th anniversary, with director Yeon Sang-ho in attendance.

Director: Yeon Sang-ho
Producer: Lee Dong-Ha
Screenwriters: Yeon Sang-ho, Park Joo-suk
Cast: Gong Yoo, Jung Yu-mi, Don Lee (Ma Dong-seok), Kim Su-an
Languages: Korean with English Subtitles
2016; 120 min.; DCP
Country: South Korea

SCHEDULE:

Saturday July 11, 3:15pm
Film at Lincoln Center

Intro and Q&A with director Yeon Sang-ho

Yeon Sang-ho
연상호

Yeon Sang-ho emerged from independent animation with The King of Pigs (2011), an unflinching portrait of school violence, class cruelty, and the wounds Korean society teaches its children to carry. He crossed into live action with Train to Busan (2016), the Cannes Midnight Screenings sensation that helped turn the Korean zombie film into a global phenomenon. Since then, he has moved restlessly across scale and format, from the animated Seoul Station to Peninsula, Jung_E, Revelations, The Ugly, and now Colony. Arriving at NYAFF as a North American premiere after its Cannes Midnight Screenings world premiere, Colony returns Yeon to the same Cannes section that launched Train to Busan ten years earlier. Yeon opens NYAFF’s 25th edition in person on July 10 and appears through opening weekend, which also features the 10th-anniversary 4K restoration of Train to Busan.