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Seoul Station (2016)

★★★ — Seoul Station (2016)

Seoul Station is an animated prequel to Train to Busan, released the same year (2016) as that live-action film and made by the same director, Yeon Sang-ho. The two productions ran more or less in parallel, with Seoul Station effectively serving as a companion piece rather than a traditional prequel in the conventional sense. Yeon had worked primarily in animation before Train to Busan, with low-budget features like The King of Pigs (2011) and The Fake (2013) earning him a reputation on the South Korean festival circuit for dark, socially-minded work. Seoul Station carries that same preoccupation with class and homelessness into its zombie premise, setting the outbreak among the unhoused population around the real Seoul Station rail terminus.

Train to Busan is great. This animated prequel is not. It's weird. Train to Busan is stuck in this sandwich with both prequel and sequel feeling rather slow and lacklustre by comparison

Rating: ★★★ | Year: 2016 | Watched: 2025-07-15

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