First image from Na-Hong Jin's sophomore film 'The Murder' [황해, Yellow Sea]

Oh joy. Na-hong Jin's first film The Chaser got a lot of love around these parts when it came out so now that news is juuuuuust starting to come out about his sophomore effort titled The Murderer then we're going to pay attention. The first image from that upcoming film was released and those eyes tell the story. Woah. The full image is after the break.

The synopsis is as follows... On the Chinese side of the China-Russia-North Korea border, there is a region called Yanbian, Korean Autonomous Prefecture. This film tells the story of a man from this region, who embarks on an assassination mission to South Korea in order to pay off his mounting debts. He is only given $500 in advance and takes the job without knowing much about his target. However, before long a series of conspiracies and betrayals bring him to the realization that he has been tricked into entering a dangerous trap.

Wildgrounds also points out a note from the director about those eyes... The year before last, I saw a foreign kid in the corner of a small restaurant, eating alone. He looked like he was about ten years old and he wore a very dirty outfit, seemingly from a construction site, and he was eating what I thought was curry. He was there without his parents. The owner of the restaurant told me that the boy comes to his restaurant for every single meal. For some reason the lack of expression on his face while he spooned up his food stuck in my mind.