Marathon (2005 film)

Marathon
Theatrical release poster
Hangul
말아톤
Revised RomanizationMaraton
McCune–ReischauerMarat'on
Directed byJeong Yoon-cheol
Written byYoon Jin-ho
Song Ye-jin
Jeong Yoon-cheol
Produced bySeok Myeong-hong
Lee Seung-yeop
Shin Chang-hwan
StarringCho Seung-woo
Kim Mi-sook
CinematographyKwon Hyeok-jun
Edited byHahm Sung-won
Nam In-ju
Music byKim Jun-seong
Distributed byShowbox
Release date
  • January 27, 2005 (2005-01-27)
Running time
117 minutes
CountrySouth Korea
LanguageKorean
Box officeUS$33.3 million

Marathon (Korean: 말아톤) is a 2005 South Korean drama film directed by Jeong Yoon-cheol, and starring Cho Seung-woo and Kim Mi-sook. It received 5,148,022 admissions, making it the 4th most attended Korean film of 2005.

Based on the true story of Bae Hyeong-jin, an autistic marathon runner, the film popularized the South Korean term for autism (자폐증; japyejeung) which can be translated as "self-closed syndrome."