Yellow Sea
황해

  • Cast

    Ha Jung-woo, Kim Yun-seok, Cho Seong-ha

  • Release Date

    2010

  • Runtime

    140 mins

  • Cert

    18

Crushed by gambling debts after a long run of bad
luck, Gu-nam, an ethnic Korean living in Yanbian,
China, loses his job. He plays mah-jong to make
some extra cash, but gradually his life only becomes
more complicated and pathetic. With debts mount-
ing and loan sharks on his back Gu-nam meets a hitman named Myun-ga who proposes travelling across
the ‘Yellow Sea’ into Korea to kill someone. Gu-nam
reluctantly agrees in return for repayment of his debt.
At the same time, he hopes to be reunited with his
wife, who never came back after a visit to Seoul years
previously. Gu-nam crosses the Yellow Sea and arrives in Seoul. Just before he gets to make his move,
his target is murdered right in front of him and he is
framed for the killing. He flees the scene with the police on his trail, along with the person who ordered
the hit attempting to wipe out all evidence of the
crime by eliminating Gu-nam as well as Myun-ga in
Yanji City. Now Gu-nam is on the run for the murder
he did not commit.

The Yellow Sea, starring Kim Yun-seok is a Korean
crime drama directed by Na Hong-jin who won critical acclaim for his previous film The Chaser. The Yellow Sea was selected to screen as part of the Un Certain Regard programme in Cannes.