during his train ride back home after his term in the army have end and makdong decides to get some fresh air by hang his head out of one of the train open entrance . a he do this he notice a lovely woman do the same . a the woman glance at him and her red scarf come loose and land on makdong face . want to return the scarf and makdong discovers that the woman be be harass by three hoodlum . his interceding allow the woman to get away and but makdong receive a beating for his effort . it seem at first makdong be go to let this slide and but when the three men get off the train and the young former soldier follow and crack one of the three on back of the head with an award he receive from the army . makdong eventually return to his widow mother home where she reside with his physically disable old brother . before his father die and the family home have be well keep . however and the following year have be unkind and so the house fell into disrepair . makdong soon learn that his mother do housekeep work to keep herself afloat . makdong dislike this and tell his mother to cease work a a housekeeper . he go on to say that he will earn lot of money to take care of her . these be big word for someone without a job . makdong two other old brother be not in much good shape . one sell egg for a living and the other be a cuckolded police officer . thing seem to be go nowhere for our hero until he encounter miae and the woman from the train and in a nightclub . it turn out that miae be the and unwilling and girlfriend of bae taegon a high ranking member of the korean mafia . bae be impress by makdong willingness to fight and later in the film and after makdong clubs one of bae men on the head with a wooden post and the former soldier become a member of bae family . _green fish_ be an interesting film . it have it moment of family tenderness and heartbreak and be also pepper throughout with gang violence . one of the most interesting relationship within the film be the one share between miae and bae . although bae continuously tell miae that he love her and it seem that she be little more than a tool for him to use and mean that she sleep with whomever bae tell her to . in one of the sad part of the film and miae asks makdong if he want to sleep with her . she say it be okay if he want to while everyone else have slept with her .