The Yellow Sea (2010)
Directed by Na Hong-jin
A Korean man in China takes an assassination job in South Korea to make money and find his missing wife. But when the job is botched, he is forced to go on the run from the police and the gangsters who paid him.
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What critics compared The Yellow Sea to
At its best, the film resembles a collision between Na Hong-jin’s The Yellow Sea and Martin Scorsese’s After Hours, filtered through the splattery comic chaos of Evil Dead II.
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.
Na’s The Chaser and The Yellow Sea are riveting thrillers, but what the director accomplishes here is quite different.
Writer-director Na Hong-jin made an international splash in 2008 with his feature debut The Chaser, which he followed up in 2010 with The Yellow Sea; both films are dark thrillers involving lone, lost men caught up in events far beyond their control.
But unlike, say, any one sequence in a Transporter film, either of the Raid extravaganzas, the preposterously amazing Old Boy or The Yellow Sea, the “Crazy 88” climax of Kill Bill Vol. 1, or the Guggenheim ramp shootout in The International, Vaughn’s mayhem moves so fast that it’s hard to believe.