Sea Fog (aka 'Haemoo') (2014) - New Movie Produced by Bong Joon-ho

[One Armed Boxer]

One of the summer seasons most anticipated movies in Korea, 'Sea Fog' is produced by Bong Joon-ho and will mark the directorial debut of his 'Memories of Murder' screenwriter Sim Seong-bo.

Based on an actual incident that took place in 2001, in which dozens of ethnic Korean-Chinese attempted to smuggle themselves into South Korea, only for them to suffocate inside the very ship which was expected to deliver them, the movie stars Kim Yoon-seok ('The Thieves', 'The Chaser').

Check out the teaser below -

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[One Armed Boxer]

Full trailer has just been released -

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[Keung]

I've been looking forward to this for a while. Kim Yoon-seok is the man!

[One Armed Boxer]

I've been looking forward to this for a while. Kim Yoon-seok is the man!

Agreed! He looks to be a channeling a little of his 'Yellow Sea' look here as well. I posted a short biography of him for last years Korean Film Festival in Australia, which you can check out here -

http://koreanfilmfestivalinaustralia.blogspot.com.au/2013/08/kim-yoon-seok-everyman-anti-hero.html

[Keung]

That was a very good read, sir. Thanks.

[One Armed Boxer]

Review is up from the guys over at Twitch -

http://twitchfilm.com/2014/07/review-bleak-and-gripping-sea-fog-prizes-character-over-spectacle.html

[thekfc]

It has moved up on my list.

I would like to see what they changed from the event.

[One Armed Boxer]

The Korean DVD will be hitting shelves on March 11th -

http://www.yesasia.com/global/haemoo-dvd-2-disc-korea-version/1038371275-0-0-0-en/info.html

[One Armed Boxer]

Twitch recently posted an interesting interview with director Shim Sung-bo, in which he talks about the making of 'Sea Fog' -

http://twitchfilm.com/2015/03/ndnf-shim-sung-bo-talks-about-taking-the-helm-on-haemoo.html

[Keung]

Blu-ray, April 8th.

http://www.kimchidvd.com/en/good/goods.jsp?good_seq=20612

[One Armed Boxer]

Blu-ray, April 8th.

http://www.kimchidvd.com/en/good/goods.jsp?good_seq=20612

Hey Keung, you'll have to post your thoughts once you've given this a watch, I'm curious to check it out myself!

In the meantime, Twitch have posted an interview with producer Bong Joon-ho, which acts as a nice companion piece to their earlier interview with director Shim Sung-bo. Check it out here -

http://twitchfilm.com/2015/04/interview-the-films-of-bong-joon-ho-retrospective-looking-back-at-mother-and-looking-forward.html

[One Armed Boxer]

This is hitting UK Blu-ray on 26th March courtesy of 88 Films.  Amazing movie, for anyone that hasn't seen it don't hesitate on a blind buy.

[kingofkungfu2002]

I have the Korean dvd, but will be upgrading to the UK bluray.

[whitesnake]

A region 1 DVD (not on Blu-ray) of Sea Fog is available on Amazon.com.  Apparently it was released legit in North America by Film Movement ("a North American distributor of award-winning independent and foreign films based in New York") back in August of 2016.  I wasn't familiar with Film Movement, but it does have other Asian films available, including The Drummer (set in Taiwan), Key of Life (Japanese), Hospitalite (Japanese), Ilo Ilo (set in Singapore), Boiling Point (directed by Takeshi Kitano), In Love We Trust (Chinese), My Love, Don't Cross That River (South Korean), Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow (Taiwanese), available on DVD on Amazon.com.

Film Movement website - https://www.filmmovement.com/filmcatalog/ by title, genre, country, director, and some titles are on Blu-ray.