Marine Boy (2009)

Original title

마린보이

Directed by

Jong-seok Yoon

Genre

action thriller

Country

South Korea

Runtime

1h 58m

Rated

15

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 25 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A former national swimmer gets into debt and is forced to smuggle drugs by sea for a gangster boss.

tensedesperategrittysuspensefuldarkbleakfast-pacedgrungy

What happens

Marine Boy (Korean: 마린보이; RR: Marin boi) is a 2009 South Korean action thriller film. The feature film debut of writer and director Yoon Jong-seok, it stars Kim Kang-woo, Cho Jae-hyun and Park Si-yeon in the lead roles. Marine Boy is the story of a former national swimmer who finds himself in debt, and out of desperation is employed as a mule by a gangster boss, smuggling drugs by sea. Yoon regarded the film's title as a unique point, saying, "There is something beguiling about its duality, how these criminals are called something that romantically calls to mind the popular cartoon Marine Boy or the star swimmer Park Tae-Hwan". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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