The Korea Society and the Museum of the Moving Image present The Yellow Sea as part of Korean Cinema Now at MoMI. The Museum of the Moving Image and The Korea Society have impressed growing audiences in 2011 with an exciting run of new work. In The Yellow Sea, director Na Hong-jin tells a tale where, to bring his wife to Yanbian (on the border of North Korea and China) and pay off his gambling debts, protagonist Kim Gu-nam takes on an assassination job. After a disastrous mistake, he becomes the target. A part of the 64th Cannes Un Certain Regard line-up, The Yellow Sea follows in the steps of Na’s first action-filled crime thriller, The Chaser, which received high praises in Korea as an upgraded Korean action thriller and was screened in the non-competition category of the 61th Cannes festival.
Sunday, November 20, 2011 | 4 PM
Museum of the Moving Image
35th Avenue at 37th Street, Astoria
From midtown, taxi or N/Q Train outbound to 36th Avenue
Film free with museum admission at The Museum of the Moving Image.
The Yellow Sea (156 min) 2010
황해
Dir. Na Hong-jin. With Kim Yun-seok. In this box office hit in Korea, Gu-nam is a cabdriver who leads a pitiful life in Yanbian Prefecture, a region between North Korea, China, and Russia. His wife went to Korea to earn money six months ago, and he hasn’t heard from her since. He plays mah jongg to scrape together some cash. And then one day he meets a hit man who proposes to turn his life around, for the small price of one hit.
