The Yellow Sea (film)
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Duration Language KoreanMandarin | 7.4/10 IMDb Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller Initial DVD release February 8, 2012 (Sweden) Country Republic of Korea | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Hong-jin Na (screenplay) Release date December 22, 2010 (2010-12-22) Initial release December 22, 2010 (South Korea) Music director Jang Young-gyu, Byung-Hoon Lee Cast Ha Jung-Woo (Gim Gunam), Kim Yun-Seok (myeon jeonghak), Cho Seong-Ha (Gim Taewon), Lee Cheol-min (Choe Seongnam), (Gim Seunghyeon), Im Ye-won (professor's wife)Similar movies American Psycho , Evil Dead II , Unthinkable , Scanners , Cocoon , The Hills Have Eyes Tagline The only thing he must not have crossed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Yellow Sea (Hangul: 황해; RR: Hwanghae) is a 2010 South Korean action thriller film directed by Na Hong-jin and starring Ha Jung-woo and Kim Yoon-seok in the lead roles. The film revolves around a man who travels from his home in Yanji City in China to South Korea in search of his missing wife. Because of his gambling debts, he agrees perform an assassination for a local gangster but when this goes wrong he finds himself on the run.
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The Yellow Sea was released in South Korea on 22 December 2010.
Plot
In northeastern Chinese city of Yanji in Yanbian Prefecture, Gu-nam (Ha Jung-woo), an ethnic Korean, or Joseonjok, toils away as a taxi driver. When not working, he is often found at gambling halls. Gu-nam is now in serious debt. His wife left to work in South Korea and promised to send money back. He has yet to hear from her and is tormented by nightmares of her having an extra-marital affair. To make matters worse, Gu-nam is fired from his job and debt collectors take most of his severance pay.
Local gangster, Myun Jung-hak (Kim Yoon-seok), offers him a deal: if Gu-nam goes to South Korea to kill a businessman, he will get CN¥57,000 (US$10,000). Gu-nam accepts and leaves for South Korea by train and a rickety fishing boat, with US$500 for expenses.
When Gu-nam arrives in South Korea, he carefully scopes out his target for days, while also searching for his wife. When the time arrives for Gu-nam to take out his target, a string of unexpected events occurs, leaving him desperately looking for a way out. Meanwhile, the police, the South Korean mob, as well as the ethnic Korean Chinese mafia all frantically search for Gu-nam.
Release
The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, as well as the 2011 Filmfest München.
The Australian and UK films rights were sold to Bounty Films. The UK release of the film was on October 21, 2011.
Reception
The film opened on December 22, 2010 in South Korea and was top of the box office, selling 1.05 million tickets in its first five days of release, according to the Korean Film Council. The film sold a total of 2,142,742 tickets nationwide.
Korean movie the yellow sea 2010 teaser trailer
References
The Yellow Sea (film) WikipediaThe Yellow Sea (film) IMDb The Yellow Sea (film) themoviedb.org