The Yellow Sea

R

2010

2h 36m

Crime

Drama

Mystery & Thriller

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88%

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25 Reviews

78%

Audience Score

1,000+ Ratings

A taxi driver (Ha Jung-woo) goes on the run after an attempt to carry out a hit on a professor (Kwak Do-won) goes terribly awry.

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Amy Taubin

Film Comment Magazine

[It] contains two of the most mindbogglingly choreographed, thrillingly extended pursuit scenes-one on foot and one in cars-that I've ever seen.

Aug 27, 2019

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William Goss

MSN Movies

...does boast its fair share of gripping moments.

Mar 21, 2013

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Mark Olsen

Los Angeles Times

A breakneck mix of bone-crunching freneticism and bloody close-quarters knife-fighting with a strand of romantic melancholy.

Rated: 3.5/5

Dec 1, 2011

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Brent McKnight

The Last Thing I See

"The Yellow Sea" is full of great performance, stunning, gore-soaked fight scenes, and frantic action pieces,

Rated: A-

Jul 11, 2020

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Ed Travis

Hollywood Jesus

The scope of the tale is large and the twists and turns are breathtaking.

Apr 1, 2020

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Panos Kotzathanasis

Asian Movie Pulse

Na Hong-jin maintained most of the elements that made an impression in his debut, by incorporating great characters, desperation and agony, and impressive fighting scenes.

Mar 8, 2019

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Online A

Korean cinema has some exceptional action movies. Yellow Sea had good direction, cinematography, characters, acting, & script. The movie was long, yet maintained a healthy pace.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

12/03/23

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Audience Member

The best Korean movie.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/13/23

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Joel C

You want hacking with hatchets and stabbing with long knives, this film's got you covered. A man trying to make some money and find his wife at the same time gets into one hell of a mess. There's some intense scenes that'll keep you on the edge of your seat and buckets of blood to wash it down. This film is really well made and worth watching.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

03/25/21

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leonardo j

Way too fanciful! You have to be a huge fan of action movies to ignore so many incongruent facts in the movie: A wounded thug that kill dozens by himself, idiot cops that let the suspect run away, an untrained paid killer that runs away in the most impossible situations, etc. I'm highly disappointed, this movie is not half as good as The Chaser. I even thought it was made before The Chaser, it turns out it was made after. You really have to love action movies to like a movie like this one. Don't waste your time.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Audience Member

What an awesome movie. SKorea really knows how to make the best revenge/thriller movies. All my fav's from this genre are from there. There was very little comedy in this one, which is rare from my experience. But the pacing is fantastic as once it gets going, it's unrelenting til the credit roll. The acting was perfect. Each character looked like and acted their part extremely well, which really helps with shutting everything else off and being sucked in by the movie. The cinematography was nice. But the best thing about this movie is the plot. How things go from a to b to c is fascinating especially due to the unexpected turns. And the run-time flies by so don't let that intimidate you. I highly recommend this movie for fans of dark thrillers or horrors.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/15/23

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Audience Member

Violent, overly long and hard to follow Korean thriller has some great chase sequences but is nonetheless violent....

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/23/23

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Na Hong-jin

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Ha Jung-woo

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Kim Yoon-seok

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Jo Sung-ha

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Lee Cheol-min

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Synopsis

A taxi driver (Ha Jung-woo) goes on the run after an attempt to carry out a hit on a professor (Kwak Do-won) goes terribly awry.

Director: Na Hong-jin
Screenwriter: Na Hong-jin
Production Co: Showbox/Mediaplex, Fox International
Rating: R (Language|Brutal Bloody Violence|Nudity|Some Strong Sexuality)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: Korean
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 1, 2013
Runtime: 2h 36m

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