South Korea Synopsis
황해
“The only thing he must not have crossed.”
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.
Audience Engagement
437 audience reviews — more than 96% of South Korea films in our index.
Review volume (96th percentile) outruns trending popularity (81th) — a durable title with sustained audience attention.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with The Yellow Sea. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Drama + Thriller in South Korea
81 South Korea titles in our catalog blend the Drama and Thriller genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding The Yellow Sea itself).
The 2009–2011 South Korea Window
The Yellow Sea holds position #27 of 137 South Korea films in the 2009–2011 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 2010s South Korea Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2010s in South Korea, 719 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when The Yellow Sea premiered alongside 53 others.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 53 other South Korea films in 2010.
The 429th South Korea title from South Korea we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1955).
Our South Korea catalog contains 1,397 titles in total (931 films).
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on The Yellow Sea, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- immigrant · 5
- beaten to death · 3
- knife fight · 3
- mahjong · 3
- money problems · 3
- bloodbath · 2
- brutal violence · 1
- gang war · 11
- taxi driver · 10
- korean chinese · 7
- murder · 155
- police · 105
- south korea · 97
- seoul · 38
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #395 of 1,397 South Korea films indexed here (72nd percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is +0.5 points above the South Korea average of 6.9/10.
Among South Korea Drama productions specifically: #286 of 868 (top 33%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | South Korea |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Korean |
| Spoken Languages | Spanish, Mandarin, Korean |
| Production Companies | Wellmade Starm, Popcorn Film, 20th Century Fox Korea, Showbox, Fox International Productions Korea |
| Runtime | 2h 21m |
| Release Date | December 22, 2010 |
| IMDb | tt1230385 |
| Official Site | www.hwang-hae.co.kr |