Streaming provides a home for seemingly any interest these days. Darkroom, a video streaming platform, specializes in independent, foreign, arthouse, and cult classic genre benders. For fans of the weird and esoteric, Darkroom exists to satiate those needs. It now invites fans to stream the extraordinary South Korean animated adventure, Aachi and Ssipak.
The award-winning adult comic science fiction action film was directed by Jo Beom-jin and was originally released two decades ago in 2006. It has been out of circulation in the west for many years but returns for an exclusive run on Darkroom with a vivid 2K remaster to mark its 20th anniversary. The film is notable for its unique, punk-inspired characters, irreverent storyline, and rollicking, over-the -top action sequences. It is presented in Korean with English subtitles.
For more details on Aachi and Ssipak, check out the details below.
A blockbuster-scale, hyper-delinquent action ride for the fiercely burning youth!
In a dystopian future where all natural resources have been depleted, human waste has become the city’s sole source of energy. To maximize energy production, the government incentivizes defecation by rewarding citizens with “Hard” – which are highly addictive, hallucinogenic popsicles.
Before long, a group of mutated outcasts known as the “Bojagi Gang” emerges. Having lost their ability to defecate due to severe “Hard” addiction, they are brutally exiled from the city for being “unproductive.”
With “Hard” becoming the ultimate status symbol of wealth, the city spirals into a lawless wasteland plagued by constant looting and violence. For Aachi and Ssipak, two street thugs who scrape by through the illicit “Hard” trade, survival is getting harder by the day. Meanwhile, the desperate Bojagi Gang relentlessly raids the city to satisfy their craving, prompting the government to deploy “Geco” – a ruthless, cybernetically enhanced super-soldier – to wipe them out.
While wandering through Sector 4, the city’s most dangerous slum, Achi and Ssipak cross paths with a girl named Ippeuni. The moment Ssipak falls head over heels for Ippeuni at first sight, the duo is dragged into a wild, unwanted, and chaotic journey…
Aachi and Ssipak looks pretty wild especially by the looks of this trailer. It’s hyperactive visuals seem perfect for anyone looking for something bizarre and outside the box. And thanks to Darkroom, it now has a home on streaming. 
The Darkroom platform is available as an app from all major platforms including Google and Apple stores and via the web at www.darkroom.film. Monthly memberships are only $2.99.
