Director Na Hong-jin's 2009 debut The Chaser, along with the works of Joon-ho Bong, Park Chan-wook and Kim Ji-woon helped thrust the South Korean movie industry into the consciousness of Western audiences. However, a recent spate of mediocre and uninspired genre films has started to flood the market, threatening to stunt this Eastern revolution. Thankfully Hong-jin's The Yellow Sea (2010) is an original and intense revenge thriller that looks set to breathe new life into a stagnant industry.
Kim Gu-nam (Ha Jung-woo) is a taxi driver struggling to make a living in the Yanbian - a Korean populated region which borders Russia, China and North Korea. Those who live in the area are known as 'Joseonjoks' - a derogatory term given by those in South Korean as many of these Yanbian natives end up fleeing the region to find work in the south. Gu-nam's wife is one of these illegal immigrants; however he’s failed to hear from her since her departure - lumbered with the 60000 Yuan debt acquired for her visa and seemingly unable to pay it back to the vicious loan sharks who follow his every move.
Read More...
No comments:
Post a Comment