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Byung-Gu believes that the problems of Earth are a result of the actions of extra-terrestrials. On a mission to save the planet from impending disaster, then, our hero kidnaps and interrogates the boss of a multi-national company whom he believes to be an alien...

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ProducerTcha Sung-Jai

EAN5023965351227

eBay Product ID (ePID)44152379

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ActorHa-Kyun Shin, Paek Yun-Sik, Hwang Jeong-Min

Film/TV TitleSave the Green Planet

DirectorJang Jun-Hwan

LanguageKorean

Subtitle LanguageEnglish

Run Time113 Mins

Aspect Ratio1.85 Wide Screen

FormatDVD

Release Year2005

FeaturesWidescreen, Deleted Scenes\Director Commentary\Cast And Crew Interviews\Behind The Scenes\Jamie Russell Film Notes, With Subtitles

GenreDrama, General

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Number of Discs2

Certificate18

Country/Region of ManufactureSouth Korea

ReviewsThe Times - As bonkers as anything you will see this decade., Mail On Sunday - A frantically stylish but ultimately bonkers film.

Additional InformationThis is a jaw-droppingly bizarre movie from Korea that mixes scenes of gruesome torture and violence with comedy and heartbreaking profundity. Perhaps as a result of too many amphetamines and violent incidents in his past, beekeeper Lee Byeong Gu (Sin Ha-Gyun) has become convinced that an unscrupulous business tycoon (Kan Man-Shik) is actually an alien from the planet Andromeda. Lee's frumpy acrobat girlfriend (Hwang Jung-Min) helps him abduct the 'alien' and torture him into confessing. Meanwhile, a hangdog detective is following a trail leading to Lee's hideout high in the mountains. Let the timid be warned: this is not the antipollution comedy that the title might indicate. Man's inhumanity to man is certainly depicted--as in events like Korea's 1980 Kwangju riots--but there's more going on here than any one summation could describe: bees attack, a pet dog named Earth dines on human remains, alternate theories of evolution are posited (ie Noah's Ark was a deep submarine carrying DNA samples); an entire lifetime of films, political turmoil, anime and manga are boiled down and distilled into one profound, multi-textual allegory. Adventurous viewers will be in for one hell of a ride, as this film dares go where few have gone before, yet it does so with heart and intellect to match its wicked humor and headlong momentum.

ScreenwriterJang Jun-Hwan

Sound sourceDolby Digital 2.0 Stereo\Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround\DTS 5.1 Surround

Format DescriptionDVD 9

Movie/TV TitleSave The Green Planet