Tunnel (Korean Movie)

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Movie: Tunnel (English title)
Revised romanization: Teoneol
Hangul: 터널
Director: Kim Sung-Hoon
Writer: So Jae-Won (novel), Kim Sung-Hoon
Producer: Lee Taek-Dong, Jang Won-Suk, Kim A-Ran, Lee Dong-Yoon, Yoo Jae-Hwan
Cinematographer: Hong Seung-Hyuk
Release Date: August 10, 2016
Runtime: 126 min.
Genre: Disaster
Distributor: Showbox
Language: Korean
Country: South Korea

Plot Synopsis by AsianWiki Staff ©

Lee Jung-Soo drives home for his daughter's birthday. While driving through a tunnel that crosses through a mountain, the unthinkable happens. The tunnel collapses. When Lee Jung-Soo regains consciousness, he finds himself trapped inside his car. The car itself is buried under thousands of tons of concrete and debris. All he has inside the car are his cellphone, two bottles of water and his daughter's birthday cake.

Notes

Based on novel "Tunnel" by So Jae-Won (published April 20, 2013 by Writer And Criticism).

Cast



Ha Jung-Woo	Bae Doo-Na	Oh Dal-Su	Shin Jung-Keun	Nam Ji-Hyun
Lee Jung-Soo	Se-Hyun	Dae-Kyung	Captain Kang	Mi-Na



Cho Hyun-Chul	Kim Hae-Sook	Yoo Seung-Mok	Park Hyuk-Kwon	Park Jin-Woo
young guy in rescue team	Minister	Reporter Jo	government official	government aide

Lee Dong-Jin

Radio DJ

Additional Cast Members:

Lee Cheol-Min - Captain of drilling team
Han Soo-Hyun - drone technician
Lee Han-Seo - Soo-Jin
Kim Seung-Hoon - public hearing moderator
Ye Soo-Jung - old mother
Jin Yong-Wook - construction worker A
Lee Dong-Yong - construction worker B
Joo Suk-Tae - employee of Korea Expressway Corporation
Ahn Se-Ho - drilling team member
Seo Hyun-Woo - SNC fellow reporter
Lee Sang-Hee - YTN news reporter
Kang Shin-Chul - agent at situation
Jin Sun-Kyu - equipment manager
Yoon Don-Sun - integration control center Section Chief Yoon
Yeo Min-Goo - voice of 119 telephone operator, helicopter agent
Lee Chang-Jik - veteran workman
Kim Sung-Kyu - civic group member 3
Kim Soo-Jin - public hearing attendee B
Lim Han-Bin - bakery kid 1
Son Mi-Hee - bakery kid's mom
Park Yong - taxi driver B
Kim Sun-Kyung - restaurant owner
Kang Sang-Chul - rescue worker 4
Kim Jin-Goo - high ranking government official
Kim Jong-Soo - drilling company executive (cameo)
Choi Gwi-Hwa - person interested in tunnel 2 (cameo)
Jung Suk-Yong - Team Leader Choi (cameo)
Hwang Byeng-Gug - gas station owner (cameo)
Bae Yoo-Ram - 119 rescue worker(cameo)
Yang Ji-Soo - Lee Jung-Soo stand-in
Kwon Oh-Soo - construction manager
Hwang Sun-Young - bakery owner
Ahn Hyun-Bin - new laborer

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Aileen Jun 17 2025 7:36 pm Good disaster film, ending was ok, should of took the dog home for his daughter as she wanted a dog, would of been a better ending.

Lee Seohwa Jul 08 2023 7:52 pm I rated 10/10! The best suspenseful movie ever! But I can’t believe that some people are so stupid and heartless for giving up saving people’s life! It doesn’t matter if it’s one person, still need to save one person’s life! I thought Jung Soo already ate the dog lol!

Baha May 16 2023 10:39 am Just want to say Stupid for all the rescue team.. how can they miss the location of lee jung soo?? spending days on useless things like punching a hole in a tunnel that turned out to be in the wrong place lol.. why don't you check the blue print and the tunnel video first? like this is the best rescue? whereas after calling lee jung soo the rest of the crew made a lot of mistakes lol

D3x May 02 2023 9:08 am don't bother. this movie is a real joke. how the "best rescue in korea" is just a bunch of 5th grader with no brain at all. stopped watching the movie right after one of the "rescuer" honks the car inside a collapsing tunnel, indeed it's even worst than 5th grader with no brain.

Emma Nov 02 2022 10:29 pm I was surprised Nam JiHyun was there as Mina. Her scene was so touching that even made me cry esp that she was talking with her mom and also how Tengie reacted.

Tyler Durden Aug 24 2022 8:29 pm In one scene of the movie a bunch of quadrocopters were sent into the tunnel. One after another are crashed due to loss of signal with the remote control. The frequency of the quadrocopters was disturbed by zinc inside tunnel mountain. How could Lee Jung-Soo receive phone calls with his mobile phone? Must the mobile phone signal not also be disturbed?

Steffanie Oct 21 2021 6:08 pm I loved this movie and watched it 3x already! It's a little bit unrealistic... then again, shouldn't all movies and dramas be a bit unrealistic, to fit the writer's storyline?

What surprised me is that all this time, I just realized Nam Ji Hyun was the other stranded person! I was reading her profile after rewatching Suspicious Partner, and was surprised that she was Mina in Tunnel.

Anyway, I recommend this movie if you like those suspense disaster movies. I just hoped they showed what happened to Mina's mom after.

CorrectiveDeficit May 24 2021 12:19 am I have watched so many movies like this before that I don't even know if I have watched this specific film. Watched the trailer and I'm still uncertain. To be sure, I'll watch it again. Lol

Inshirah Lim Mar 21 2020 11:27 pm A not so realistic movie but highly recommended nevertheless!!

Piggy Wiggy Jan 04 2020 9:33 pm This is one of the best action-disaster movie!!!

Ruvelyn macayayong Feb 26 2019 9:23 pm Well im a great fan of korean movies. But this tunnel captured my heart. I can hold my tears and breath while wacthing this. Its a great movie :)

kimchay agnes Oct 13 2018 9:09 am Super ultra great movie.. I cant help but hold my breath in every single time.. Great actor, great story. Jjang!!

rendiishere Apr 03 2018 2:49 pm warning: spoiler ==

realistically, this movie is too hilarious; samsung phone (assuming the movie came out in 2016, so the latest of the phone would be galaxy s7) that lasts 17 days before the battery dead (even if its only used for talking but if you turn off and on it again, then the default setting would boot up all the apps jung soo had installed, not included from stock apps from samsung and google (believe me, unless you root the phone to readjust the permission or uninstall the stock apps, its fckin battery drainer>>doing this daily would eat up the battery, and its not from 100% but around 80%), and thankfully the infamous s7 didnt explode during the caved in even after it slightly broken. then of course how could he stay that long, almost a month, only by eating a cake (that almost of the half of it had been eaten by the dog) and dog food pellet, with 1,5 bottle water (assuming 0,5 had been given to the other person) and his urine? i can see that later he got "source of water" but its so unclear since the scene is only a drop of it. other variables like how about the dog? the long lasting car battery for him to listen his radio station, the state of the tunnel before and after demolition, the cold of winter when hes not wearing enough warm clothes, point is if its real, hes already rip. i mean, it would be great if the makers put more attention on how to make it more realistic and not oversimplifying things, like 127 hours. parts that are more believable is how the government is depicted, theyre do anything to get our votes, arent they? also, the whole dilemma on saving 1 person and all, how jung soo was willing to give some of his water and phone to other person during the caved in (i kinda want to see how jung soo meet with the mother of the dead person and giving the dog to her), the ending is too bland for me, so i cant find how this movie is special, other than how good the cast and cgi are.

6.5/10 for me.

Eskimo Jun 24 2017 3:43 am @Nhat Ngo broooooo dogs are sentient beings. They don't eat the corpse of its owner just because its hungry

Nhat Ngo May 18 2017 1:11 am It's a bit unrealistic a bit about the dog. If a dog was hungry that long, it would have eaten the corpse of its owner.

UNKNOWN Mar 30 2017 11:54 am Such a nice movie...

Malditang Bugay Feb 09 2017 6:05 pm This is an intensely claustrophobic experience and I am not even a claustrophobic person. They really capture the emotion during the situation, the camera angle, the sounds from falling rocks and the dust particles are what makes it possible. Aside from suspense, the drama is pretty heavy here as the dilemma falls to the people involved like the rescue leader and his wife, you will feel sympathy for them.

elsa calinaya Jan 16 2017 9:59 pm I like it !

Danniah Nov 07 2016 9:50 am This movie is about humanism. In very restricted condition, Lee Jong Soo still take care of stranger Mina and her dog. He still keeps his positive mind. Most of people would give up or go crazy if they face the same situation with Lee Jong Soo. It is very contradicted with the politicians and the company who wants to stop to save him because of their own greed and mistake. Well, I guess that's the difference between the SAR team capt. and the politician. One works to save life, the other one works to take profit from someone's life.

Overall, this movie is indeed great. As what we can expect from HJW.

Note: I personally loves the dog and the way Lee Jong Soo jokes at the end of the movie.

SH QA Sep 02 2016 7:36 pm I saw this movie in the theater in L.A. today. Very good acting by Ha Jung Woo and Oh Dal Su, as always. The movie was very good, and the story maintained a good pace. The CGI effects of the collapsing tunnel were realistic. I was surprised that Jung Soo's cell phone battery and his car clock radio lasted that long. The ending, with Jung Soo and Se Hyun driving into the tunnel, was a tense moment. I hoped to see Jung Soo present the pug to their daughter, as her birthday present, at the very end.

i am here Aug 30 2016 4:32 am Just watched it in cinemas with a friend. Amazing movie which doesn't get boring at any moment. Really put me on edge, and the cinematography is really damn good. Warning: they play with your emotions !

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