Save the Green Planet!

Byeong-gu, with his tightrope-walker girlfriend, abducts a pharmaceutical executive he believes is an alien from Andromeda, and sets about torturing a confession out of him in his basement.

Jang Joon-hwan made a film that begins as a torture comedy, becomes a police procedural, becomes a study of abuse and grief, and ends somewhere no synopsis can prepare you for, and the tonal control across all of it is extraordinary.

It flopped completely in Korea in 2003 and has become one of the most beloved cult films in the country's cinema, precisely because it refuses to be one thing.

Shin Ha-kyun is remarkable as a man who is either mad or right, and the film keeps you genuinely uncertain until the last minutes.

Bong Joon-ho has cited it. It is one of the great one-of-a-kind films and it is finally getting the reputation it deserves.