2010 Movie
Dir. Hong-jin Na & Na Hong-jin · Hong Kong, South Korea · Korean, Mandarin
An unlucky taxi driver finds even more trouble in this vicious gangster film
Underneath all the action of The Yellow Sea is the despair of not getting one’s life in order. To be fair to the taxi driver protagonist, the odds are stacked against him as an ethnic Korean in a Chinese region. However, it doesn’t help that he resorts to gambling has his vice, the vice that comes to get him when he has to face his surmounting debts. Reduced to having to survive, it’s horrible to see how much worse Gu-nam’s life gets, but it’s more so devastating because despite everything, Gu-nam still fights. The Yellow Sea channels writer-director Na Hong-jin’s relentless action deeper into this city, capturing the region’s tension in an underdog tale.
A Korean man in China takes an assassination job in South Korea to make money and find his missing wife. But when the job is botched, he is forced to go on the run from the police and the gangsters who paid him.
A Korean man in China takes an assassination job in South Korea to make money and find his missing wife. But when the job is botched, he is forced to go on the run from the police and the gangsters who paid him.
Isabella Endrinal is a curator at A Good Movie to Watch. She's now free from the corporate night shift. Previous articles have been published in outlets such as NANG Magazine. She's currently catching up on some classic films… if she isn't coping with the fact that the Haikyu anime will end soon.
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