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  • 2011
  • R
  • Fox World Cinema
  • 2 h 37 m
  • 2011
  • R
  • Fox World Cinema
  • 2 h 37 m

Summary Gu-nam is a cab driver in Yanji City who leads a pitiful life. His wife went to Korea to earn some money 6 months ago, but he hasn’t heard from her since. He plays mah-jong to make some extra cash, but his life only becomes more complicated and pathetic. One day he meets a hitman named Myun-ga and receives a proposal to turn his life aro...

Directed By: Na Hong-jin

Written By: Won-Chan Hong, Na Hong-jin

  • 2011
  • R
  • Fox World Cinema
  • 2 h 37 m
  • 2011
  • R
  • Fox World Cinema
  • 2 h 37 m

The Yellow Sea

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
70
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 42 User Ratings
7.6
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Summary Gu-nam is a cab driver in Yanji City who leads a pitiful life. His wife went to Korea to earn some money 6 months ago, but he hasn’t heard from her since. He plays mah-jong to make some extra cash, but his life only becomes more complicated and pathetic. One day he meets a hitman named Myun-ga and receives a proposal to turn his life aro...

Directed By: Na Hong-jin

Written By: Won-Chan Hong, Na Hong-jin

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
70
60% Positive
6 Reviews
40% Mixed
4 Reviews
0% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
70
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6 Reviews
40% Mixed
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0% Negative
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90
Dec 1, 2011
Na captures at once the fragility of the human body and the deep-rooted darkness of the human soul. The Yellow Sea is easily one of the films of the year for underserved action-heads.
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80
May 31, 2016
A deafening explosion of energy, gruesome violence and chaos.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW
80
Dec 3, 2011
Gushing more blood and possessing more stamina than any number of Hollywood hack-'em-ups, writer-director Na Hong-jin's pulse-pounding, mordantly funny genre piece is at times messily convoluted, yet serious and full-bodied enough to achieve a genuinely tragic dimension.
By Justin Chang FULL REVIEW
70
Nov 29, 2011
If anything, Na's film is too much of a good thing, exceeding credibility too often (the punching-bag hero is far too lucky - good and bad - and absorbs a hilarious amount of punishment) in its pursuit of despairing violence. But that's the Korean way, and Na nails down the bottom feeder realism while slouching toward video-game hyperbole.
By Michael Atkinson FULL REVIEW
60
Nov 29, 2011
Like fellow countryman Park Chan-wook's vengeful epics, this man-on-the-run thriller knows how to deliver a rush; unlike those superior tales of lives on the edge, that's the only trick up its sleeve.
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40
May 31, 2016
The Yellow Sea is overkill in every sense.
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40
May 31, 2016
After a ruthlessly focused, almost-Hitchcockian first hour, Na’s film fans out into a flabby, multi-stranded gang war and loses all sense of purpose.
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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 42 User Ratings
7.6
76% Positive
32 Ratings
21% Mixed
9 Ratings
2% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 42 User Ratings
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76% Positive
32 Ratings
21% Mixed
9 Ratings
2% Negative
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Production Company Wellmade Starm, Popcorn Films, Showbox/Mediaplex, Fox International Productions (FIP), Location Incentive Program of Pusan Film Commission, Korea Trade Insurance Corporation, Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum, Asia Culture Technology Investment, Gemini Investment, Michigan Venture Capital
Release Date Dec 2, 2011
Duration 2 h 37 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline The only thing he must not have crossed
Website https://www.vidio.com/premier/60/the-yellow-sea
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Awards

Grand Bell Awards, South Korea
• 2 Wins & 11 Nominations
Asian Film Awards
• 1 Win & 5 Nominations
Baek Sang Art Awards
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations

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