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Three... Extremes

Sam gang yi

Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong

2004

125 Min
Color
1.85:1
Japanese, Korean, Cantonese
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DIR Fruit Chan, Park Chan-wook, Takashi Miike

PROD Peter Chan, Fumio Inoue, Ahn Soo-Hyun, Naoki Sato, Shun Shimizu

SCR Haruko Fukushima, Lilian Lee, Park Chan-wook

DP Chung Chung-hoon, Christopher Doyle, Kôichi Kawakami

CAST Bai Ling, Lee Byung-hun, Kang Hye-jeong, Kyoko Hasegawa, Atsuro Watabe

ED Fruit Chan, Kim Jae-beom, Yasushi Shimamura

MUSIC Chan Kwong Wing, Kôji Endô

Synopsis

An Asian cross-cultural trilogy of horror films from accomplished indie directors. –IMDb

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Fruit Chan

Fruit Chan Gor (traditional Chinese: 陳果), born April 15, 1959 in Guangdong, China, is an independent Hong Kong screenwriter, filmmaker and producer, who is best known for his style of film reflecting the everyday life of Hong Kong people. He is well known for using amateur actors (such as Sam Lee in Made in Hong Kong, Wong Yau-Nam in Hollywood Hong Kong) in his films. His name became familiar to many Hong Kongers only after the success of the 1997 film Made in Hong Kong, which earned many local and international awards.

On August 22, 2007, Chan announced that he will make a film focusing on Bruce Lee’s early years, specifically, the Chinese-language film, Kowloon City, will be produced by John Woo’s producer Terence Chang. The film will be set in 1950s Hong Kong.
Chan’s credits include Durian Durian. Also, Stanley Kwan stated that he was talking with Lee’s family to make a movie about the late action movie icon. Further, in April, Chinese… read more

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Park Chan-wook

A versatile stylist with an aesthetic that straddles the line between the idiosyncratic and the mainstream, Park Chan-wook is best known for his 2000 film Joint Security Area, a powerful story about a murder along the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea that became the biggest box-office hit in the history of Korean cinema. (It was later supplanted by the action film Shiri, which also dealt with North-South relations.) Park’s interest in film began in college at Sogang University, where he started the “film gang” club and published a number of critical studies on contemporary cinema. After graduating from the Department of Philosophy, he began working in the film industry as an assistant director to Gwak Jae-young on A Sketch of a Rainy Day (1988). In 1992, he directed his first feature, The Moon Is…the Sun’s Dream, a gangster drama, and shifted gears into comedy with 1997’s Trio, a romp about three pals on the run from the law. Neither of these films gained much recognition… read more

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Takashi Miike

A contemporary of such noted film experimentalists as Tetsuo: The Iron Man [1989, maverick Japanese workhorse director Takashi Miike became one of the most talked about filmmakers in the international festival circuit. Despite the derailed manic energy of the aforementioned films, it was the stark relationship drama turned sadistic nightmare Audition that found the director receiving increasing international exposure. Audition succeeded in pulling the rug from under viewers as it turned the age-old image of the submissive Japanese female on its head with a shocking and nearly unbearable finale that had many horrified viewers shell-shocked. Born in Osaka, Japan, in 1960, Miike spent his childhood growing up in Osaka, where he eventually opted to study filmmaking at the Yokohama Academy of Visual Arts. Inspired more by Bruce Lee than Seijun Suzuki, Miike’s distinctive style came more as a result of not studying the traditional rules of filmmaking than a conscious attempt to break them… read more

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ayundya

8Aug11

Perfect.

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G.W. Elmer

7Jul11

I think Miike's had the best atmosphere, but dumplings was just awesome! Hahaha

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nurrrit

6Apr11

Takashi y Fruit Chan totalmente sometidos por el corto de Park Chan Wook. Aunque los otros dos son visualmente "compelling".

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Adam Eisentrout

30Jan11

One great short, and two good ones. Miike's "Box" may be some of his best work and is surreal, dreamy, and creepy. "Cut" is fun, and "Dumplings" shorter version is much more nastier and sillier than its longer counter part. I recommend seeing the full-length version, even if the shorter version delivers quite a shocking end.

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Fantasia Festival Report: Three Extremes

By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
We’re down to our last few Fantasia reviews and here’s Philippe Gohier with his thoughts on a film we’ve talked about a bit here in the past: Three Extremes. Working with the theme of artistic egoism and
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Fantasia Festival Report: Three Extremes

By Twitchfilm.net on July 16, 2010
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Three... Extremes (of Human Nature)

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“Three… Extremes” is an anthology of three chilling short films (each about 40 minutes) by three prominent Asian horror directors. Fruit Chan is Chinese and directs the first of the three, Park Chanwook…  read review

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