The Chaser
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“You’re dead if I catch you”
Overview
Before his cult horror phenomenon The Wailing, Na Hong-jin conjured one of the most suspenseful South Korean thrillers of the ‘00s: The Chaser. After capturing a sex worker named Mi-jin (Seo Young-hee), vicious serial killer Yeong-min’s (Ha Jung-woo) murderous plans are disrupted when, by chance, he runs into the car of her employer Joong-ho (Kim Yoon-seok), a dishonest yet sharp former detective. Noticing blood on Yeong-min’s shirt, Joong-ho apprehends him before a local cop arrests them both. While the fuzz is distracted by a separate P.R. nightmare, Joong-ho has only a few hours, with no evidence, no support and no leads, to find Mi-jin before her captor walks free.
Why You Should See This Film
Attention fans of Memories of Murder, Oldboy and I Saw the Devil, this one’s for you. One of the very best all-night-long odysseys that never lets up its extremely taut game of suspense, The Chaser is a jewel among the canon of great Korean thrillers. Like its contemporaries, this is lean and very mean, delving into the depths of evil, making scathing critique on the systems that fail us when we need them most while maintaining a hopeful heart at its core.
Viewer advisory: contains some scenes of high impact violence.
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