Marine Boy (2009)

Interesting facts

Marine Boy is a 2009 South Korean action thriller film. The feature film debut of writer and director Yoon Jong-seok, it stars Kim Kang-woo, Cho Jae-hyun and Park Si-yeon in the lead roles. Marine Boy is the story of a former national swimmer who finds himself in debt, and out of desperation is employed as a mule by a gangster boss, smuggling drugs by sea. Yoon regarded the film's title as a unique point, saying, "There is something beguiling about its duality, how these criminals are called something that romantically calls to mind the popular cartoon Marine Boy or the star swimmer Park Tae-Hwan".

Production

Marine Boy was the debut feature film by writer and director Yoon Jong-seok. Yoon said that he first began thinking about the story after watching a "very moving film noir", which inspired the type of characters he would later write into his script. During casting, he was keen to avoid stereotypes, and for the role of Kang wanted someone who looked more like a businessman than a typical gangster boss, choosing Cho Jae-hyun for that reason.

Filming commenced in Seoul on 17 May 2008 with scenes of Cheon-soo and Yu-ri's first meeting, and later moved to Cebu Island in the Philippines. The film's production went through much trial and error due to the crew's lack of experience of filming at sea, and both crew members and actors suffered severe seasickness during filming.

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