The Chaser (2008)
Directed by Na Hong-jin
Joong-ho is a dirty detective turned pimp, who's in financial trouble as several of his girls have recently disappeared without clearing their debts. While trying to track them down, he finds a clue that the vanished girls were all called up by the same client, whom one of his girls is meeting with right now.
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What critics compared The Chaser to
Recalling Bong Joon-ho�s Memories of Murder in its tonal shifts, its ultimately downbeat outlook, and its subject matter, The Chaser is doubly impressive for being a first feature.
Whereas Bong Joon-ho 's Memories of Murder used a criminal investigation in dictatorial South Korea to suggest endemic figurative impotence, Na Hong-jin's spiritual successor makes such flaccidness literal vis-à-vis its sexually frustrated, prostitute-slaughtering serial killer (Ha Jung-woo).
With films like The Wailing and his directorial debut, The Chaser (2008), I’ve come to expect a sense of bleakness and brutality from his work.
Like Na’s feature debut The Chaser (Chugyeokja, 2008), Hope is a frantic chase movie that hits the ground running and does not relent…
His debut, The Chaser, remains one of the strongest first features by any filmmaker…
Hope, which comes from Korean auteur Na Hong-jin, the man behind The Chaser and The Wailing, rocked the Croisette.
Writer/director Na Hong-jin (The Chaser) follows Beom-seok as he follow the creature’s trail, step by rubble-filled step, through labrynthian streets, alleys, and ruined shops.
Before that, Na Hong-jin had only two other feature films to his name as a director: The Chaser (2008) and The Yellow Sea (2010)…
He has made other terrific movies in a more familiar action-adventure vein, including “The Chaser” and “The Yellow Sea.”
A weird Japanese stranger seems to bring rampant evil to a remote and still superstitious South Korean village in this huge local success for director Na Hong-jin (The Chaser, The Yellow Sea).
With two features under his belt – 2008's The Chaser (an unexpectedly affecting serial-killer thriller inspired by true events), and 2010's The Yellow Sea (an ultraviolent exercise in desolation) – Na has one of the most assured sensibilities to come along in genre film during the last 10 years.
The Wailing is written and directed by Na Hong-jin, who became a household named to cinephiles with the harrowing thriller The Chaser, and the haunting story of desperation, The Yellow Sea.
It took six months for writer-director Na Hong-jin (The Chaser) to shoot the movie, and the apparently painstaking approach of Na and cinematographer Hong Kyung-pyo (a collaborator of Bong Joon-ho’s) has resulted in a story that truly feels saturated with a sense of spiritual foreboding.
Na’s The Chaser and The Yellow Sea are riveting thrillers, but what the director accomplishes here is quite different.
In a 1930's Korea under Japanese colonial rule, con man Count Fujiwara (Jung-woo Ha, "The Chaser") hires Korean pickpocket Sookee (Kim Tae-ri) to get a job at the secluded estate of the fragile Lady Hideko (Kim Min-hee, "Right Now, Wrong Then").
Newcomer Kim Tae-ri stars as Sook-hee, a young Korean pickpocket who is chosen by her gang leader, Count Fujiwara ( Ha Jung-woo of Never Forget and The Chaser), to help him execute an elaborate long-term con to seduce, marry, and rob orphaned young heiress Lady Hideko (Kim Min-hee, No Tears for the Dead).