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8.0/10   900 votes
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Yoon-Chul Jeong (writer)
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Release Date:
27 January 2005 (South Korea) more
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6 wins more
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Great drama more (8 total)

Cast

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Seung-woo Cho ... Cho-won
Mi-suk Kim ... Cho-won's mum
Gi-yeong Lee ... Jung-wook
Seong-hyeon Baek ... Yun Jung-won
Nae-sang Ahn ... Cho-won's dad
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Mi-suk Park
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Runtime:
117 min
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Remade as Marason (2007) (TV) more

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Great drama, 8 August 2005
8/10
Author: Michael Zeigermann from London, UK

I thoroughly enjoyed Marathon. This is one of the few "feel good" movies which doesn't manipulate its audience by using cheap devices, but simply draws you into the storyline through its excellent sense of drama and direction, not to mention the fantastic performance by lead actor Cho Seung-Woo. While it would have been very easy to portray Cho-Won as irritating or puerile (and no doubt a lesser actor would have done just that), Cho Seung-Woo manages to make him believable and sympathetic, and it's mainly for that reason that the film works as well as it does.

Marathon is one of several great films to have come out of Korea in the last 3-4 years, and I would not be the least bit surprised if this film can follow in Oldboy's footsteps and become an international hit - in fact it might even do one better, given Marathon's crossover appeal. No doubt a Hollywood remake is already waiting in the wings, but make sure you see this one if you get the chance.

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