Baek Yun-shik, Ha-kyun Shin, Hwang Jung-Min

Believing that aliens in human form are systematically destroying the planet and all humankind, Byung-gu sets out to capture an alien leader and force him to confess. Because all the aliens look like ...( read more  read more... )humans, Byung-gu makes an educated guess and kidnaps the head of a chemical company. Byung-gu desperately tries to wring the truth from the man before the police close in and aliens destroy the world. Ha-kyun Shin and Yun-shik Baek star.

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Unrated, 118 min.

Directed by: Jun-hwan Jeong

Release Date: April 20, 2005

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DVD Release Date: September 6, 2005

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  • November 25, 2009
    completely obscure. completely changing all the time. worth a shot if you're worth more than idiosyncrasies
  • September 22, 2009
    Bonkers as anything and sometimes a little hard to follow, but overall brilliantly bizarre.
  • May 20, 2009
    Save the Green Planet is a film that refuses to be defined by a single genre and goes against what you may have come to expect from cinema. It's true originality packaged in comfortable surroundings. The story may sound like a comedy but this is hard hitting, thought provoking an...( read more)d at times, difficult to watch. The film keeps us guessing as to whether the aliens exist, it's all the ravings of a madman, or maybe a bit of both. It deals with human nature in a frank and unsettling way. We are given a protagonist that we gradually become more and more distant from. The comedy is very dark but not so much that it isolates the viewer. One scene has a character shoot at a swarm of bees in a sad attempt stop them from attacking. The film laughs at this action by showing a couple of bees fall to the ground dead. This one moment sums up one of the main points of postponing the inevitable. To say what the film is truly about is to give away the ending. A film that demands another watch.
  • November 26, 2008
    A disgruntled ex-factory worker kidnaps the CEO of his former employer, convinced that he is an evil alien out to destroy the world in one week's time. But then again, he could just be a delusional lunatic...This complete fruitloop of a film is unlike anything else you are going ...( read more)to see. For most of the film it's like a semi-comic version of Misery as Byung-gu sadistically tortures the man while a similarly oddball cop who's been demoted to kitchen duty tries to track him down. Then as a ploy to escape, his victim concocts a Usual Suspects style history of the planet consisting of every pop culture sci-fi story combined with pre-history, myth and religion. And then it just gets WEIRD! Starting off as a cross between Seven and Misery and ending up like The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, this has got to be one of the best sci-fi-comedy-horror-serial killer movies I've seen....Totally hatstand.
  • June 10, 2008
    Soooo much fun. A delightful, silly, scary, funny and completely entertaining film
  • November 12, 2009
    What a delight, A multi-genre film that successfully twists your emotions & thoughts, Not just some random images and actually an Impressive & thought-provoking experience
  • October 29, 2009
    I hardly know where to begin when discussing SAVE THE GREEN PLANET; it's as if somone threw 3 or 4 different genres into a blender and set it on puree. Of course for me this is not necessarily a bad thing since I love movies that make unpredictable twists and turns and don't stay...( read more) safely within the boundaries of any conventional realm. However some viewers may feel themselves at sea in this film which seems to start out as a black comedy and then spins wildly out of control (much like its lead character) through the slasher, gorno, and science fiction genres with detours into David Lynch territory for good measure. They may even resent the fact the film's advertising represents it as far more of a comedy then it is. I personally got very few laughs from this flick after the first 10 minutes. It's the story of A young man (Ha-Kyun Shin)who has made it his life's mission to save the planet from an alien take-over with the help of his plump, female friend Sooni (Jeong-Min Hwang). To this end he captures and tortures the CEO of a major chemical firm who he believes has information on the upcoming invasion. The torture scenes are brutal and become extremely difficult to watch. The director stated that he wanted to make a film like MISERY only from the perspective of Kathy Bates' character. So he alternately makes us feel sorry for the young man and repulsed by him; feel certain he's a madman and wonder if maybe he isn't right after all. Director/writer Joon-Hwan Jang pulls at our emotions like he's making salt water taffy. I've never seen another film quite like this, and it will be a little while before I'm ready to see another one. It's bloody and gruesome and violent and full of pathos and dispair, the kind of comedy you get only from the Koreans these days. I do recommend it, but only with a caveat.
  • October 27, 2009
    Just like watching DAY OF THE BEAST for the first time all over again. It's a deeply sick, horrific, shocking, and suspenseful piece of filmmaking that also has to be one of the funniest dark comedies ever. Do yourself a favor and watch it!
  • June 14, 2009
    Forget the title, this is NOT a documentary about enviromentalism! It starts off with the kidnapping of a drunk CEO to a pop punk version of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", and the plot goes completely insane from then on. Best movie I've seen in the last 5 years.
  • June 13, 2009
    What an incredible load of sh..........

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