Genre: Drama, Sci-fi
Starring:
* Sol Kyung-gu ... Choi Man-sik
* Ha Ji-won ... Kang Yeon-hee
* Park Joong-hoon ... Kim Hwi
* Uhm Jung-hwa ... Lee Yoo-jin
* Lee Min-ki ... Choi Hyeong-sik
* Kang Ye-won ... Kim Hee-mi
* Kim In-kwon ... Oh Dong-choon
Release year: 2009
Language: Korean
Subtitle: English
SYNOPSIS:
Located on the southeast tip of the Korean peninsula is the international city of Busan. A popular vacation spot on the East Sea coast, Haeundae draws one million visitors to its beaches every year. Man-sik, a native of Haeundae, lost a co-worker to a tsunami on a deep-sea fishing trip four years ago. He has never returned to sea ever since. He now leads a simple life running a small seafood restaurant and is preparing to propose to his longtime girlfriend, Yeon-hee. Man-sik’s brother Hyung-sik works as a coast guard. One day, he rescues a female college student from Seoul who promptly, comes on to him aggressively. While these everyday domestic affairs unfold, geologist Kim Hwi, an expert on tsunami research, discovers the East Sea is showing signs of activity similar to the Indian Ocean at the time of the 2004 tsunami. Despite his warnings, the Disaster Prevention Agency affirms that Korea is in no harm of being hit. When he discovers a mega-tsunami is headed straight for the Korean peninsula, he quickly heads down to Haeundae. There he meets up with his ex-wife, who is organizing a cultural event, for the first time in seven years. He also sees his young daughter who is unaware that he is her father. Eventually, Kim gets a call about a deadly oncoming wave, with only ten minutes to spare! While the vacationers and citizens of Busan are enjoying a peaceful, hot summer day, a mega-tsunami is headed straight for Haeundae at 500 miles per hour.
RATING: 9/10
USER RATING:
REVIEW:
" This is the premise of South Korea’s first major disaster movie ever. This movie is pegged as being a disaster, drama, comedy, and romance all rolled into one; making it very difficult to actually put into one definite genre. Like many South Korean films, this one tries to bust through genres and in doing so, while being a bit confusing for audiences, ends up standing as something very unique when compared to Hollywood. Haeundae is no different; this movie moves through the interactions of its characters, romances, and squabbles with the backdrop of an impending disaster that only the main character knows about and no one believes him until it is almost too late to do anything about it.
While hardly an original script, especially to westerners who are bombarded with disaster movies at least several times a year, Haeundae is well worth watching because of the director’s effortless ability to weave in comedy, drama, and romance without the movie turning hackneyed or overdone.
The movie is directed by Je-gyun who is already a popular name in cinema and has done a number of romances, comedies, and dramas already. He brings together a starry cast as well, including Sol Kyung-gu who plays Choi Man-shik, the main character who, after losing his best friend to a tsunami retires from the sea for good. He settles down to own a shop on the Haeundae beach. He is supported by Ha Ji-won as Kang Yeon-hee who upon being rescued by his brother Hyung Silk (Kang Ye-won) turns her attention on her rescuer. While this is being sorted out, a geologist named Kim Hwi (played by Park Joong-hoon) discovers an underwater disturbance is set to cause a massive tsunami. Naturally, no one listens to him since no one wants to believe that the biggest beach in the country will have to be evacuated.
By the time anyone listens, it’s already too late-ten minutes stands between the beach and water borne destruction. The cast for this movie might be large, but each character stands apart as distinctive and this makes the movie stand out above other disaster movies where the majority of the characters simply seem to be nothing more than screaming cannon fodder .
While not the most imaginative movie, Haeundae’s stellar cast and director turns just another disaster movie into something well worth watching and since there is more to this movie than rampant destruction, it’s something that’s a little easier to sink one’s teeth into. It’s definitely not the best movie out there, but it’s not a bad watch and if you’re into the genre, it’s worth seeing. "
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