On China’s Korean borderland, Gu-nam (Ha Jung-woo) is already half-buried. A Joseonjok taxi driver, part of China’s ethnic Korean minority, he has lost his wife to Seoul, his money to gambling, and his dignity to men who smell desperation from miles away. Then Myun Jung-hak (Kim Yoon-seok), a local gangster with a butcher’s sensitivity, gives him a way out: cross the Yellow Sea into South Korea, kill a man, collect the cash, and use the trip to find his wife. The job explodes on contact. In Seoul, Gu-nam becomes everyone’s wrong man, chased through alleys, docks, back rooms, and rush-hour traffic by cops, gangsters, and men with sharp blades. Na Hong-jin follows The Chaser with a nightmarish noir about survival at its most animal. Powered by two brutal performances: Ha Jung-woo as a hunted, exhausted fugitive running on instinct and panic, and Kim Yoon-seok as hatchet-wielding doom. The Yellow Sea is an unforgiving modern Korean thriller with no safe ground.