Save The Green Planet

Posted By: Allan Ogg - 4/11/2005

Lee Byeong-Gu thinks his boss is an alien.

He may be right.

One of Korea's secret masterpieces explodes onto western screens.

April 20, 2005 (Earth years)

Credo Mutwa 457 XRB 56,000,641 (Andromedan years)

Can you handle the truth about the disgusting alien conspiracy that might just destroy our planet?

Please help us Save The Green Planet...watch the trailer for this madcap movie.


Synopsis

Finally, an Asian movie that matters gets an American release. SAVE THE GREEN PLANET is a tilt-a whirl genre-blender from Korea that turns film history against itself to create one of the most savage, affecting  and inspired anti-violence movies ever made. This is a movie that defies all marketing labels and is exactly what it wants to be: like nothing you've ever seen before.

Lee Byeong-Gu (Shin Ha-Gyun, JSA) is a sensitive, blue collar sad sack hopped up on conspiracy theories and sci-fi films whose life has been derailed by one bad break after another. Yet he knows there's no such thing as bad luck. The only thing that could have made such a mess of his life are...aliens. Nasty, disgusting aliens who have infiltrated human society. Sly aliens who are planning to destroy our planet at the next lunar eclipse. The one alien possessing the Royal Genetic Code needed to contact the Crown Prince and stop the destruction just happens to be his old boss, CEO of Yuje Chemicals, Kang Man-Shik (Baek Yun-Shik).

So with the help of his circus-performer girlfriend he sets out to kidnap Kang and torture him until he confesses to his alien identity and stops the invasion. Of course, it's hard to confess to something that's just a delusion in a sick man's mind.

First time director Jang Jun-Hwan has marshaled every trick in his cinematic arsenal to unleash a full-out moviemaking assault on the audience. Shot for $4 million, this stylish flick looks like something Terry Gilliam would come up with if he were in a really bad mood.

Funny, brilliant and moving, SAVE THE GREEN PLANET is one-of-a-kind.


Awards

Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film
Winner, Golden Raven

Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema
Best Actress: Hwang Jung-Min
Best Cinematography: Hong Gyeong-Pyo

Grand Bell Awards, Korea
Best New Director: Jang Jun-Hwan
Best Sound Effects: Lee Ji-Soo

Moscow International Film Festival
Best Director: Jang Jun-Hwan

Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan)
Best Picture

Pusan Film Critics Awards
Best Picture
Best New Director: Jang Jun-Hwan
Best Actor: Shin Ha-Gyun

Daejong Film Festival, Korea
Best New Director: Jang Jun-Hwan

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