Save The Green Planet (DVD)

A review of Tartan's 'Asia Extreme' DVD release. This is a South Korean film from 2003. It was released in the UK during the period when Western cineastes were discovering there was more to Far Eastern films than men jumping over cars in slow motion firing two guns at once. Films from Thailand, Japan and Korea hit the West like a weird, filmic hurricane. They made the majority of Hollywood product look positively anaemic, so suddenly companies like Tartan were releasing everything they could get their hands on (and rather patronisingly lumping together films from Japan, Korea, China as if they were all the same place). Some truly remarkable films were ...