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Green Fish

Overall rating: 3 out of 5

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This landmark Korean film finds our hero, Mak-dong discharged from the military and returning home to find his village transformed into a city. Confused, alone and alienated he drifts into the shady world of organised crime, which offers some stability and familiarity in its codes of honour and respect. However morality comes crashing down through the complicated love triangle which develops with his gangland boss and his boss’s mistress, all the while as the criminal empire itself starts to come apart at the seams.

Green Fish details

Format:	15 DVD
Starring:	Han Suk-Kyu, Moon Sung-Keun, Shim Hye-Jin
Director:	Lee Chang-Dong
Genres:	Drama - Crime, World Cinema - Korean
Studio:	THIRD WINDOW

DVD 1 disc

Name	Discs
Green Fish	15 Feature

DVD Information

Run time:	1 hour 51 minutes
Rental release:	04 Jun 2007
Main languages:	Korean

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dated Korean ganster film

By a customer from Brighton , 18 Jun 2007

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Both Peppermint Candy and Oasis were excellent films, but I cannot understand why it is Lee Chang-Dong's first film Green Fish that has got a DVD release in this country. It shows none of the originality of his later films, and is quite frankly nothing more than a cliched take on the ubiquitous Korean gangster film.
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By juradino (811 reviews) from London , 20 Nov 2010

Coming back from military service young man has to come to terms with life in no uncertain terms. He sacrifices his life to his family to set up business while discovering what family business is all about with tragic consequences to himself.
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Gangsters are bad

By a customer from Barking , 10 Oct 2007

Fairly run of the mill tale about a naive guy falling in with the wrong crowd and getting caught up in their evil gangster naughtiness, probably worth a look but won't make any 'films to see before you die' kind of lists.
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dated Korean ganster film

By a customer from Brighton , 18 Jun 2007

Both Peppermint Candy and Oasis were excellent films, but I cannot understand why it is Lee Chang-Dong's first film Green Fish that has got a DVD release in this country. It shows none of the originality of his later films, and is quite frankly nothing more than a cliched take on the ubiquitous Korean gangster film.
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