The Murderer (The Yellow Sea)
Hwanghae
South Korea
2010
140 Min
Color
2.35:1
Korean
Synopsis
Gu-nam is a cab driver who leads a pitiful life in Yanji City in Yanbian prefecture, a region between North Korea, China and Russia, where about 800,000 Korean-Chinese known as Joseonjok reside. His wife went to Korea to earn some money 6 months ago, but he hasn’t heard from her since. He plays mah-jong to make some extra cash, but his life only becomes more complicated and pathetic.
One day he meets a hitman named Myun-ga and receives a proposal to turn his life around by repaying his debt, and reuniting with his wife. All for a price of one hit. But everything will go wrong. —Cannes Film Festival
Director
Na Hong-jin
In 2005 director Na Hong-jin received the Best Horror/Sci-fi Short Film Award at Mise-en-Scene Film Festival with his 9-minute and 30-second short film The Perfect Fishplate and made his spectacular feature debut with The Chaser in 2008, which swept the nation with over 5 million admissions and invited to the midnight special screening of the 61st Cannes Film Festival. His feature debut accumulated countless awards from all over the world and won the hearts of 20th Century Fox. Without superfluousness in his story and with speedy cuts, Na is heralded as a powerful figure who will lead a new wave of directors in Korea. –Yellow Sea Press Kit
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ElTigreNegro
6Mar13
Drowns itself on it's own obsession with violence. It's not full of gimmicks and dumb characters like The Chaser, but it can't help to feel artificial in the way it tries to build tension. Really, the two main characters sustain a cartoonish ammount of physical damage, while taking out dozens of enemies in the final act.
Ryan Borja
14Feb13
An edge-of-your-seat action film from South Korea, Yellow Sea is one of those rare action movies that'll sure delight auds from start to finish. Na Hong-Jin directed a film that's a notch higher than his previous opus, "The Chaser." The convulated storyline is another area that's subject for debate, especially every impossible situations hurdled by its lead. Still, the film shows a director who's someone to watch.
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By David Hudson on May 31, 2011
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By Twitchfilm.com on March 26, 2012
I think it has become pretty clear over the last decade that nobody makes revenge thrillers like South Korea. The general cinematic world had its collective eyelids blasted off by Oldboy in 2003 and ever
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Director Na Hong Jin has been credited by some with rekindling the Korean Wave with his 2009 debut THE CHASER. Following the global success of works from the likes of Park Chan Wook and Kim Ji Woon, the
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By Twitchfilm.com on October 13, 2011
Korean director Na Hong-jin returns to Sitges to present his latest film, The Yellow Sea. It’s been a while since his previous directorial effort The Chaser, which gathered quite an international success
Cannes 2011: English Trailer For Na Hong-jin's THE YELLOW SEA
By Twitchfilm.com on April 29, 2011
South Korea’s Na Hong-jin made an enormous splash around the world with his debut film The Chaser. The ultra-dark crime thriller marked Na as a director to watch and we’ve done exactly that, eagerly awaiting
First image from Na-Hong Jin's sophomore film 'The Murder' [황해, Yellow Sea]
By Twitchfilm.com on April 29, 2011
Oh joy. Na-hong Jin’s first film The Chaser got a lot of love around these parts when it came out so now that news is juuuuuust starting to come out about his sophomore effort titled The Murderer then
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The Yellow Sea
By Adam Suraf on December 23, 2011
Hong-jin Na turned some heads with his breathless debut, “The Chaser”, and here he continues in the same vein, fashioning a 155 minute thriller in which everyone is chasing and killing everyone else…
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