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AKA: Hwanghae
Directed by: Na Hong-jin
Starring: Ha Jung-woo (Goo-nam), Kim Yoon-seok (Myun Jung-hak), Jo Sung-ha (Tae-won), Kwak Do-won (Prof. Kim Seung-hyun), Lim Ye-won (Kim Seung-hyun’s wife), Lee El as Joo-young (Tae-won’s mistress), Tak Sung-eun (Goo-nam’s wife)
Country: South Korea; Effed Up Asian Films
Language: Korean (Eng Subs); Effed Up Korean Cinema
Runtime: 02:20:04
Genres: Gruesome
Plot – Spoilers:
An outofluck Korean-Chinese taxi driver, Goo-nam, living in Yanbian has taken a huge loan to pay for his wife’s visa to work in South Korea. But she’s since been ghosting him and their daughter and his debtors wake him up every other morning with several raps to the head. The pressure to repay has Goo-nam toiling all day driving his taxi around town and then gambling his earnings away hoping for a big win. A gangster takes note of his situation and offers him a deal to travel to Seoul to kill someone and have his debt cleared in exchange. The opportunity is too tempting, especially since it means Goo-nam might be able to also track down his missing wife.
The Yellow Sea tests your credulity to extreme levels with Goo-nam having the lives of a cockroach, refusing to be stomped out even when there are a ton of people after him. But it’s from the director of The Wailing and The Chaser which are fairly popular here.
There are two versions of the film. This, the Director’s Cut and the original, longer (slightly lower quality) Theatrical Cut, which is lengthier not necessarily because it’s more violent, but more because of fatter plots.
Lots of action, very entertaining and a great story but just way over the top! For example, Goo-nam gets shot, stabbed, attacked with hatchets, ends up in several horrific car accidents but still runs away from 200 cops and gangsters like he’s running in first place at the Boston Marathon. Later on, he gets a little love tap to his car in the parking garage and gets knocked out cold? It’s still a great watch and highly recommended. 4 stars.
Absolute cinema
1000/1000
Korean cinema is beyond anything we have nowadays
This, the Director’s Cut and the original, – this sentence implies there 3 versions
Reinhard Heydrich was a devout Catholic
“In 1936 he (Reinhard Heydrich)
surprised me by confessing that he had left the Church. And at that moment I also confessed my sin to him. However, he left the Church for a completely different reason than I did. Despite our evangelical wedding, he remained a Catholic.
In his official or work activities, he encountered political Catholicism.”
Lina Heidrich
Leben mit einem Kriegsverbrecher
pp 57-58
Is it time to bow on a slow boat to chinko China?