Previously, the highest-grossing Korean film in Hong Kong had been My Sassy Girl, released in Hong Kong in February 2002. Often considered a classic of its genre, the romantic comedy took in slightly more than HK$14 million over its cinematic run.
Premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Train to Busan is also a record-breaking hit at the South Korean box office. Starring Gong Yoo, the live-action debut by animation director Yeon Sang-ho is a breathlessly entertaining action thriller which imagines a zombie outbreak on a bullet train.
Train to Busan is distributed in Hong Kong by Edko Films, the company which has just overseen the record-breaking release of local crime thriller Cold War 2, the top-earning Chinese-language film in Hong Kong box office history.
Source: South China Morning Post by Edmund Lee