Top 5 Korean movies missing in 'Fast and Furious'

While the movie 'Fast and Furious: Ride or Die' topped the box office for the 4th day of its release, a Korean movie was missing in the top 5.

On the 21st, according to the statistics of the integrated computer network for movie theater tickets of the Youngjinwi, 'Fast and Furious: Ride or Die' mobilized 259,785 spectators on the 20th. The cumulative number of viewers is 613,792.

'Fast and Furious: Ride or Die' is an action blockbuster in which the Dom (Vin Diesel) family embarks on a last run at the risk of their lives against their doomed enemy, Dante (Jason Momoa). The film, which was released for the first time in the world in Korea, was chosen by many audiences over the weekend.

In second place was 'Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 3', with 169,195 viewers watching, for a cumulative audience of 3,207,284.

'Super Mario Bros.' came in third with 42,596 viewers, accumulating 2,148,172 so far. 4th place was 'Theatrical Version Can't Stop Crayon Shin-chan, Animal Summoning Ninja Belly Guard' with 29,142 people (accumulated 570,521 people). 'Suzume's Lockdown', which holds the 5th place, was watched by 16,387 people (5,429,633 people).

Currently, all top 5 box offices are occupied by foreign films. In the case of 'Fast and Furious: Ride or Die' and 'Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 3', they are blockbusters with huge US capital, and 'Theatrical version of Crayon Shin-chan, summoning animals, Ninja Belly Guard' and 'Suzume's Door Lock' are Japanese animations. am. 'Super Mario Bros.' is a movie made by American Illumination Entertainment in collaboration with Japanese Nintendo.

Even if you expand the range to the top 10, 'Dream' (director Lee Byung-hun) is the only Korean film in 7th place. American film 'Triangle of Sorrow' ranked 6th, Taiwanese film 'Merry My Dead Body' ranked 8th, American film 'John Wick 4' ranked 9th, and Japanese animation 'The First Slam Dunk' ranked 10th.

Jiye Choi, staff reporter at TenAsia wisdomart@tenasia.co.kr