1997 · crime · drama · korean
Green Fish
Directed by Lee Chang-dong1h 51m1997
Returning home and finding his town drastically changed, a former soldier falls in with gangsters.
Our read: Green Fish (1997) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded crime · drama · korean entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured crime / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- intense
- bleak
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