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Green Fish (Korean: 초록 물고기; RR: Chorok Mulgogi) is a 1997 South Korean neo-noir crime film. It was the first feature-length film directed by Lee Chang-dong , who also co-wrote the screenplay.
Feb 7, 1997 · Green Fish. Original title: Chorok mulkogi. 1997. 1h 51m. IMDb RATING. 7.0 /10. 2.1K. YOUR RATING. Rate. Drama. Returning home and finding his town drastically changed, a former soldier falls in with gangsters. Director. Lee Chang-dong. Writer. Lee Chang-dong. Stars. Han Suk-kyu. Shim Hye-jin. Moon Sung-Keun. See production info at IMDbPro.
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- Drama
- Lee Chang-dong
- 1997-02-07
Makdong ( Han Suk-kyu) is fresh out of his army service and is returning home on the train. It is here he meets the mysterious Mi-ae ( Shim Hye-jin ), trying – and failing – to come to her rescue from a group of thugs. But she takes a shine to the young soldier and asks him to look her up when he returns home.
The debut feature from Korean auteur Lee Chang-Dong, in a new 4K restoration.Mak Dong has just been released from the army and is on his way home when he hel...
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- Film Movement
Feb 7, 1997 · 114min | Release date in South Korea: 1997/02/07. Synopsis. This is a melodrama depicting death, love, pain, and the hardships that an innocent young man experiences in a violent society, where the meaning of family vanishes because of industrialization.
- Lee Chang-Dong
Green Fish (1997) < Cho-log-mul-go-gi >. This is a melodrama depicting death, love, pain, and the hardships that an innocent young man experiences in a violent society, where the meaning of family vanishes because of industrialization.
Eschewing the romanticization of gangster films in favour of an austere focus on character interiority and the banality of everyday life, Green Fish is a tonally nuanced debut by one of Korea’s cinema masters and one of the peninsula’s harshest critics.
