The Yellow Sea
Director: Na Hong-jin
2010 / 157min / DCP
Jang and Lee Byung-hoon’s propulsive score sets a fire under Na’s unrelenting man-on-the-run thriller that burns hotter with each passing minute. Debt-strapped down-on-his-luck cabbie Gu-nam (Ha Jung-woo), an ethnic Korean living and working in China, agrees to take a contract killing gig from a local gangster (Kim Yoon-seok) that will take him across the Yellow Sea and into South Korea—and in short order finds himself scrambling to keep ahead of cops, crooks, and a bevy of other characters who’d like nothing more than to see his head on a skewer. “Contains two of the most mindbogglingly choreographed, thrillingly extended pursuit scenes—one on foot and one in cars—that I’ve ever seen.” —Amy Taubin, Film Comment
Distributor: Walt Disney Studios/20th Century
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