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3-Iron

Bin-jip

South Korea, Japan

2004

95 Min
Color
1.85:1
Korean
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DIR Kim Ki-duk

EXEC Michiko Suzuki

PROD Kim Ki-duk

SCR Kim Ki-duk

DP Jang Seung-baek

CAST Lee Seung-yeon, Jae Hee, Kwon Hyuk-ho

ED Kim Ki-duk

PROD DES Chungsol Art

MUSIC Slvian

Venice (Competition): FIPRESCI Prize, Little Golden Lion, Special Director's Award, Toronto, Sundance (Premieres)

Synopsis

Tae-suk is homeless and lives like a phantom. His daily routine involves temporarily staying in houses and apartments he knows to be vacant. He never steals from nor damages his unknowing hosts’ homes; rather, he is like a kind ghost, sleeping in other people’s beds, eating a little food out of strangers’ refrigerators and repaying their unintended hospitality by doing the laundry or making small repairs. Sun-hwa was once a beautiful model, but she has become withered living under the shadow of her abusive husband, who keeps her imprisoned in their affluent, expensively decorated house. Tae-suk and Sun-hwa are bound by fate to cross paths though their invisible existences. They meet when Tae-suk breaks into Sun-hwa’s house and they instantly recognize the similarity of their souls. As if bound by unseen ties, they find themselves unable to separate and quietly accept their bizarre new destiny. –MSN

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Kim Ki-duk

One of the most controversial Korean directors, Kim Ki-duk is a self-taught filmmaker who prides himself on his outsider status, openly setting himself apart from contemporaries like Hong Sang-soo and Lee Chang-dong, who he considers too intellectual. Kim’s films have drawn vitriol for their subject matter and praise for their technique, and he has often been compared to his predecessor Kim Ki-young, who was also self-taught and whose films bear a much less brutal, but equally eccentric, personal stamp. Born in a mountainous village, Kim moved with his family to Seoul at the age of nine. During his teenage years he dropped out of school and worked in factories, and at the age of 20, he began a five-year stint in the marines, the toughest and most demanding branch of the Korean military. These early experiences would inspire the gritty milieu and dim view of human relationships that characterize his films. A painter since childhood, Kim went to France in 1990, where he studied art and… read more

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Daniela

25Dec11

Meh. Just meh.

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Agni Putri Raraswulan

28Nov11

I was 13 when i was first watched this. It moved me and inspired me to study film.

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26Nov11

an unique bizarre love story... powerful! feel the beauty of silent :) loving it!

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anarxoaplytos

13Nov11

hm one of my top 20 definitely

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By Law on October 31, 2009

Opening my domestic Korean film festival is Kim Ki-duk’s popular film, 3-Iron, although its Korean title supposedly means empty house, a more appropriate title in my opinion. The film surrounds two…  read review

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