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Bookmark this pageGreen Fish (1997)
Director: Lee Chang-Dong
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Screenwriter Lee's debut feature offers a wry, regretful chunk of recent social history in the guise of a gangster drama. Makdong (Han) comes home from military service to find his family fragmented and their village razed to make way for a vast new housing development. He drifts back to the outer suburbs of Seoul and into the employ of a seemingly sympathetic gang boss (Moon), whose much-put-upon mistress (Shim) seems in need of a friend. But Makdong is hopelessly out of his depth, not realising that he's barging into a sado-masochistic relationship and misunderstanding the politics of inter-gang rivalry. Lee's sense of his characters as unwitting victims of the moral/economic/architectural climate they live in is anchored in brilliantly judged imagery and in an acute sensitivity to ambiguities of mood and feeling.Author: TR
Cast & crew
Director: Lee Chang-Dong
Producer: Yeo Kyun-Dong, Myung Kye-Nam
Cast: Han Suk-Kyu, Shim Hye-jin, Moon Sung-Keun, Myung Kye-Nam, Song Kang-Ho full cast
Duration: 111 mins
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