"The Murderer (The Yellow Sea)" to premiere overseas

The Yellow Sea [Showbox]

Korean film "The Murderer (The Yellow Sea)" will premiere overseas starting this summer, according to the movie's distributor Showbox on Monday.

Starting with France and Belgium in July, "Murderer" will also open in theaters in the U.S., Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and the eight nations of Scandinavia until early next year.

The film was screened under the Un Certain Regard category of this year's Cannes Film Festival and sold to the aforementioned nations on top of several more countries including Germany, Australia and Sweden.

Manuel Chiche, CEO of Wild Side Films for France, purchased rights for the film based on his strong trust in its director Na Hong-jin. "Many film critics were impressed by 'Murderer' and we will now be able to decide on distributing his films in France without having to read a single line from his synopsis."

Na Hong-jin is also the mastermind behind smash hit Korean film "The Chaser," his debut pic which won him the award for best director at the Grand Bell Awards in 2008.

"Murderer," his second feature pic released last year, is the story of deadly chase between three men played by top Korean actors Ha Jung-woo, Kim Yoon-seok and Cho Seong-ha.

In the film, Ha played a poor Chinese-Korean living on the border village of Yanbian, who ends up accepting a request to commit murder from a broker in order to find his wife whom he lost contact with after she left home to earn a living in Korea.

The role won him the award for best actor at the 2011 Asian Film Awards held in late March.

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