1-World Festival of Foreign Films
HOME      CHOOSE-A-COUNTRY      SEARCH      POST-A-REVIEW      CONTACT 1-WORLD

"Green Fish"
1997
Directed by Lee Chang-dong

After finishing his military service, a young man returns home to find his family divided and his old neighborhood a casualty of economic progress. When he is unable to find work, he joins a band of gangsters in Seoul, but his new job is complicated when he falls in love with the top mobster's girlfriend. "...told with conviction, honesty and a discerning eye--a critical picture of Korean society...The new culture is a non-culture: Coca-Cola, freeways and cellular phones" (World Socialist Web Site). Korean with English subtitles. 111 minutes.