Typhoon (2005 film)
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| Hangul | 태풍 |
| Hanja | 颱風 |
| RR | Taepung |
| MR | T'aep'ung |
| Directed by | Kwak Kyung-taek |
| Written by | Kwak Gyeong-taek An Yeong-su |
| Produced by | Yang Jung-gyeong Park Seong-geun |
| Starring | Jang Dong-gun Lee Jung-jae Lee Mi-yeon |
| Cinematography | Hong Kyung-pyo |
| Edited by | Park Kwang-il |
| Music by | Kim Hyung-suk |
| Distributed by | CJ Entertainment |
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Running time | 124 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Languages | Korean English Thai Russian |
| Budget | ₩17 billion |
| Box office | US$26.2 million |
Typhoon (Korean: 태풍; RR: Taepung) is a 2005 South Korean action film directed by Kwak Kyung-taek and starring Jang Dong-gun, Lee Jung-jae, and Lee Mi-yeon. Jang plays a vengeful refugee-turned-pirate who plans a massive attack on North and South Korea. A top South Korean naval officer (Lee Jung-jae) is assigned the task to stop his plans and execute him.
Typhoon was the highest budget South Korean film at the time, with a budget of over 15 million dollars, or about 17 billion won. The film was shot in three countries: South Korea, Thailand, Russia.