A Taxi Driver was released, "A Taxi Driver" surpassed 10 million viewers selling 10,068,708 tickets, earning a total of . "A Taxi Driver" also became the first film of 2017 and the fifteenth Korean film overall to surpass the 10 million milestone. It is also Song Kang-ho's third film to have sold more than 10 million tickets. The film topped the South Korean box office for three consecutive weekends. By August 28, the film had attracted 11.4 million viewers. According to the film's distributor Showbox, the total attendance of the film surpassed the 12 million mark as of September 9, becoming the tenth
Jodie Foster debut with Disney's "Napoleon and Samantha" (1972). Following appearances in the musical "Tom Sawyer" (1973) and Martin Scorsese's comedy-drama "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" (1974), Foster's breakthrough came with Scorsese's psychological thriller "Taxi Driver" (1976), in which she played a child prostitute; at age 14, she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her other praised roles as a teenager were in the musical "Bugsy Malone" (1976) and the thriller "The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane" (1976), and she became a popular teen idol by starring in Disney's "Freaky Friday" (1976) and "Candleshoe" (1977),