3 Extremes

3 Extremes

Director: Fruit Chan, Ji-Woon Kim, Nonzee Nimibutr
Cast: Kyoko Hasegawa
Kyoko Hasegawa
, Atsuro Watabe
Atsuro Watabe
Fruit Chan
3 Extremes

3 Extremes

Director: Fruit Chan, Ji-Woon Kim, Nonzee Nimibutr
Cast: Kyoko Hasegawa
Kyoko Hasegawa
, Atsuro Watabe
Atsuro Watabe
Fruit Chan

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Overview

Three Asian directors, from Hong Kong, Korea, and Japan, join forces to create an omnibus horror film, Three...Extremes. In Fruit Chan's "Dumplings," shot by Christopher Doyle, Mrs. Li (Miriam Yeung), a thirtysomething former actress with a philandering husband (Tony Leung) goes to visit Aunt Mei (Bai Ling), who sells the most expensive dumplings in Hong Kong. Mrs. Li knows about their rejuvenating powers, and she also knows about their unpleasant main ingredient, but after some initial nausea, she digs right in. In Oldboy writer/director Park Chan-wook's "Cut," a successful filmmaker (Lee Byung-hun of Joint Security Area) arrives home to find that a disgruntled extra (Lim Won-hee) has taken over his home, and fastened his pianist wife (Kang Hye-jun of Oldboy) to the grand piano. The madman threatens to cut off the wife's fingers, one by one, unless the director strangles the helpless child he's tied to the couch. Takashi Miike directs the last segment, "Box," about a young author and former circus performer, Kyoko (Kyoko Hasegawa), seemingly haunted by the ghost of her twin sister, who died a mysterious and horrible death while practicing their act. Adding to Kyoko's trauma, her editor (Atsuro Watabe) is a dead ringer for her old stepfather/ringmaster, who may have perished in the same "accident" that took her sister's life. Three...Extremes was shown at Subway Cinema's New York Asian Film Festival in 2005. For the American release of Three...Extremes, the order in which the films are presented was altered from the original "Box," "Dumplings," and "Cut" to "Dumplings," "Cut," and "Box." This film was actually preceded by another omnibus film, Three, that was nevertheless retitled Three...Extremes II for the English-language market and issued after this one.

Product Details

Release Date: 02/28/2006
UPC: 0031398178002
Original Release: 2004
Rating: R
Source: LIONSGATE - 600000-AEC LGE
Region Code: 1
Presentation: [Wide Screen]
Sound: [Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language: English
Time: 2:06:00
Sales rank: 39,080

Special Features

Disc 1:; 16:9 widescreen ; Original language 5.1 Dolby Digital; Original language 2.0 Dolbt Digitial; English and Spanish subtitles; Audio commentary with director Miike Takashi for Box; ; Disc 2:; Dumplings full-length feature; Original language 5.1 Dolby Digital; Making of Dumplings; English and Spanish subtitles; Scene index; Trailers

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Kyoko Hasegawa Kyoko (segment "Box")
Atsuro Watabe Yoshii / Higata (segment "Box")
Yuu Suzuki Young Shoko (segment "Box")
Miriam Yeung Li Qing (segment "Dumplings"),Kate (segment "Dumplings")
Bai Ling Mei (segment "Dumplings")
Pauline Lau Actor
Im Won-hee Intruder (segment "Cut"),Actor
Zabit Memedov Actor
Park Jin-woo Assistant Director (segment "Cut")
Wong Su-Fun Actor
Gang Hye-jeong Actor
Lee Jun Goo Actor
Lee Mi Mi Actor
Mitsuru Akaboshi Actor
Won-Hie Lim Actor
Kwong Chan Composer
Kôji Endô Composer
Peach Present Composer

Technical Credits
Fruit Chan Director
Ahn Soo-hyun Producer
Naoki Sato Producer
Lee Eugene Executive Producer
Park Dong-ho Executive Producer
Lilian Lee Screenwriter
OH Jung-wan Executive Producer
Kazuo Kuroi Executive Producer
Chan-wook Park Screenwriter
Eric Tsang Executive Producer,Sound/Sound Designer
Choi Pyeong-ho Executive Producer
Oh Jung-Won Executive Producer
Lee Eu-Gene Executive Producer
Haruko Fukushima Screenwriter
Kim Suk-won Sound/Sound Designer
Jin Nakamura Sound/Sound Designer
Ji-Woon Kim Director
Nonzee Nimibutr Director
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