Concrete Utopia

About Concrete Utopia

The world has been reduced to rubble by a massive earthquake. While no one knows for sure how far the ruins stretch, or what the cause of the earthquake may be, in the heart of Seoul there is only one apartment building left standing.

Concrete Utopia is a 2023 thriller film directed by Um Tae-hwa. Lee Byung-hun appears as Yeong-tak, Park Seo-jun as Min-seong, Park Bo-young as Myeong-hwa, and Kim Sun-young as Geum-ae.

It runs 130 minutes and was released in August 2023. Written by Lee Sin-ji and Um Tae-hwa. The story is adapted from a comic.

Shelv files it under post-apocalyptic future, apocalypse, apartment building, and apartment. It streams on Rakuten Viki in the United States. It scores 6.9 out of 10 from 324 TMDB voters and it carries a NR rating.

Snowpiercer, Dredd, and Mad Max: Fury Road make useful companions to Concrete Utopia, all filed under dystopia and survival.