THE YELLOW SEA
aka HWANGHAE
Year: 2010
USA: Twentieth Century Fox
UK: Bounty Films
Cast: Yun-seok Kim, Jung-woo Ha, Seong-Ha Cho, Chul-Min Lee
Director: Na Hong-jin
Country: South Korea
Language: Korean (English subtitles)
UK: 140 mins
USA Rated: R for brutal bloody violence, some strong sexuality, nudity, and language
UK Certificate: 18 contains strong bloody violence and sex
USA Release Date: tbc
UK Release Date: 21 October 2011 (Limited Release)
Synopsis
South Korean thriller THE YELLOW SEA tells the story of Gu-nam, a man who journeys from his home in Yanji City, China to South Korea in search of his missing wife. With mounting gambling debts, he agrees to carry out an assassination for a local gangster, but when this goes wrong his only way out is to go on the run.