Tidal Wave

Aka: Haeundae / Tsunami
Director: Yun Je-gyun

Subtitles: English (soft-subbed)

Year: 2009

Language: Korean

Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Sci-fi

Starring:
Sol Kyung-gu as Choi Man-sik
Ha Ji-won as Kang Yeon-hee
Park Joong-hoon as Kim Hwi
Uhm Jung-hwa as Lee Yoo-jin
Lee Min-ki as Choi Hyeong-sik
Kang Ye-won as Kim Hee-mi
Kim In-kwon as Oh Dong-choon

Synopsis:
Man-sik and Yeon-hee, are unsure as to whether they can overcome past wounds and continue being a couple. Dr. Kim, who cautions against a possible mega-tsunami at Haeundae, collapses in agony springing from an unexpected turn-up of his daughter and divorced wife. Hyoung-sik, after rescuing a woman from Seoul, rides out a ferocious storm to gladden her heart. A tsunami which destroys Haeundae symbolizes the establishment of a typical axis called provocation of conflicts, and later the inner spaces of the couples without anything left behind after all conflicts have ended.
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Curiosities:

*The CGI tsunami sequences had been shot at Kerner Optical's stages using water-dump tanks left over from special effects sequences of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) in San Rafael, California in November and December 2008, months before any principal photography began in South Korea

*"Haeundae" has the highest budget of any Korean film to date (approx US$11 million), and is Korea's first foray into the disaster genre represented by such 1970s star-heavy titles as Airport (1970), The Towering Inferno (1974), and The Poseidon Adventure (1972).

*The film's title is taken from Haeundae Beach, a wealthy sea-side resort area south-east of the city of Busan, South Korea. 'Haeun' translates as 'Sea and Clouds'.

*The stars performed their own stunts (except for the high falls)

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