The Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar will screen the South Korean thriller, The Yellow Sea, tonight at 6:20 p.m. and 10:15 p.m.
Over the past decade, South Korea has become the breeding ground for bloody, unadulterated thrillers. The genre took the cinema world by force in 2005 with Oldboy and has continued with relentless films such as last year's I Saw the Devil and The Chaser, from Hong-jin Na, the very director of The Yellow Sea.
Jung-woo Ha stars as Gu-nam, a desperately in debt cab driver in Yanjou City (a region between North Korea, China and Russia). When his wife travels to Korea to earn extra income and doesn't return for sixth months, Gu-nam tries to get lucky by playing cards and lose himself in his gambling addiction, which only makes matters worse. But a fateful encounter with a hitman (Yun-seok Kim of The Chaser), who offers to pay his debt to his loan sharks and reunite him with his wife--all for one contract killing--looks to change his luck.
At two and a half hours, The Yellow Sea, unlike most of its American counterparts, takes its time to get where it’s going. But once it does, it’s a suspense laden ride of bloody action underlined by grave emotional heft. The film screened at Fantastic Fest this past September. Check the Drafthouse website for more information.
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