Movie: The Yellow Sea
Revised romanization: Hwang Hae
Hangul: 황해
Genre: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Director: Na Hong-Jin
Writer: Na Hong-Jin
Release Date: December 22, 2010
Runtime: 156 min | 140min (Directors cut)
Distributor: Showbox/Mediaplex
Language: Korean
Country: South Korea
Cast:
Ha Jung-Woo - Ku-Nam
Kim Yun-Seok - Myung-Ga
Jo Sung-Ha - Tae-Won
Lee Cheol-Min - Choi Sung-Nam
Kwak Byung-Kyu - Prof. Kim Seung-Hyun
Lim Yeo-Won - Prof. Kim's wife
Tak Sung-Eun - Ku-Nam' wife
Kim Ki-Hwan - Prof. Kim's driver
Ki Se-Hyung - Tae-Won's subordinate
Plot:
Director Na Hong-jin (The Chaser) teams up again with award-winning actors Kim Yun-seok and Ha Jung-woo for his ambitious sophomore feature, which brings the grim action all the way from Yanbian, the Korean-populated region in Northeast China bordering North Korea, to Seoul and Busan. "The Yellow Sea" packs a hard punch with its thrilling car chases and gritty violence, but it's above all the powerful performances of the two leading actors that make the film a compelling and exhilarating watch. Ha won Best Actor at the 5th Asian Film Awards for his turn as a desperate man on the run in a foreign land.
Gu-nam (Ha), a taxi driver in Yanbian, is knee deep in gambling debt, and he hasn't heard from his wife since she left for South Korea half a year ago. To clear his debt and find his wife, he reluctantly takes a job to assassinate a businessman in South Korea. When the hit job goes wrong, Gu-nam suddenly finds himself the target of the police, the mafia, and the very man who hired him, brutal assassin Myun-ga (Kim).
General:
Format.......: Matroska
File Size....: 12804,66 MiB
Duration.....: 2h 20mn
Bitrate......: 12.7 Mbps
Subtitles....: Korean embbedded, idx/sub only
Source.......: Blu-ray
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Video:
Video Format......: AVC
Video Codec.......: x264 - core 115 r2008 4c552d8
Bitrate...........: 10 Mpbs
Frame Rate........: 23.976 fps
Aspect Ratio......: 2.35:1
Resolution........: 1920x816
Audio #1:
Format..........: DTS-HDMA / DTS Core
Bitrate.........: 2 053 Kbps / 1 510 Kbps
Channels........: 6 channels
Sampling Rate...: 48.0 KHz
Language........: Korean
Audio #2:
Format..........: AC-3
Bitrate.........: 192 Kbps
Channels........: 2 channels
Sampling Rate...: 48.0 KHz
Language........: Director & Actor's Commentary - Korean
Audio #3:
Format..........: AC-3
Bitrate.........: 192 Kbps
Channels........: 2 channels
Sampling Rate...: 48.0 KHz
Language........: Director & Staff's Commentary - Korean
