Sea Fog (2014) on Netflix
Catches are thin aboard the Jeonjinho, and its captain, Cheol-joo, takes an offer to bring thirty illegal immigrants from China into South Korea. Dong-shik is the youngest of the crew.
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- IMDb6.8/104,262 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes77%
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Plot summary
The Jeonjinho is a 69-ton South Korean fishing vessel, and its trips bring in catches too small to keep the crew in money. Captain Cheol-joo is offered the biggest payday of his career to carry thirty illegal immigrants from China to South Korea, and the whole crew agrees to the scheme. He takes the job, and the boat turns for the mainland. Dong-shik, the youngest hand aboard, sails with the rest, among them chief engineer Wan-ho and boatswain Ho-young. When the ship reaches the pick-up point, the passengers are waiting on the mainland, and among them is a young woman, Hong-mae, a migrant making the crossing.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Sea Fog (2014)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Sea Fog was adapted from a stage play based on the true story of 25 Korean-Chinese illegal immigrants who suffocated to death in the storage tank of the fishing vessel Taechangho; the ship's crew dumped their bodies into the sea southwest of Yeosu in October 2001.
- Song Joong-ki was originally offered the part starring opposite Kim Yoon-seok, but turned it down after receiving his enlistment papers for mandatory military service; K-pop singer and actor Park Yoochun was cast instead in August 2013, in his big screen debut.
- Sea Fog was the first feature film directed by Shim Sung-bo, who co-wrote the screenplay of Memories of Murder with Bong Joon-ho, the producer of Sea Fog.
