Three . . . Extremes Movie Review 2004

Twisted horror trilogy from Hong Kong, Korea, and Japan. Chan's truncated "Dumplings" (also a 90-minute feature) finds a vain former actress (Yeung), desperate to keep her looks and husband, partaking of the titular food prepared by Mei (Ling) with a secret ingredient and serious side effects. Park's "Cut" centers on the revenge taken on horror director Ryu (Lee) and his wife (Gang) by a resentful extra (Lim). Miikie's "Box" has successful novelist Kyoko (Hasegawa) haunted by the death of her twin sister in childhood and forced to continually relive her part in the tragedy. Japanese, Cantonese, and Korean with subtitles.

Distribution

CinemaNow, 4553 Glencoe Ave., Ste. 200, Marina Del Rey, CA 90292, URL: http://www.cinemanow.com, Remarks: Formerly known as Lions Gate Home Entertainment

Available on DVD
Running time 126 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Classic Horror, Horror Anthologies, Horror Comedy, Asia, Buried Alive, Twins, Magic

Screenplay

Chan-wook Park, Lilian Lee, Haruko Fukushima, Bun Saikou

Cast

Bai Ling, Tony Leung Ka-Fai, Pauline Lau, Meme Tian, Miraim Yeung Chin Wah, Sum-Yeung Wong, Wai-Man Wu, Chak-Man Ho, Miki Yeung, So-Fun Wong, Kai-Piu Yau, Kam-Mui Fung, Byung-hun Lee, Won-hie Lim, Hye-jeong Kang, Jung-ah Yum, Dae-yeon Lee, Gene Woo Park, Mi Mi Lee, Gyu-sik Kim, Kyoko Hasegawa, Atsuro Watabe, Mai Suzuki, Yuu Suzuki, Mitsuru Akashobi

Cinematography

Christopher Doyle, Jeong-hun Jeong, Koichi Kawakami

Director

Fruit Chan, Takashi Miike, Chan-wook Park

Music

Kwong Wing Chan, Koji Endo

Other

Fruit Chan, Yasushi Shimamura, Jae-beom Kim, Sang-Beom Kim

Producer

Peter Ho-Sun Chan, Applause Pictures Limited, Lions Gate Films