Three... Extremes

Three... Extremes
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Fruit Chan Chan-wook Park Takashi Miike
Produced by	Ahn Soo-Hyun Peter Ho-Sun Chan Fumio Inoue Naoki Sato Shun Shimizu
Written by	Dumplings: Lilian Lee Cut: Chan-wook Park Box: Bun Saikou Haruko Fukushima
Starring	Bai Ling Tony Leung Ka-fai Lee Byung-hun Lim Won-hie Kyoko Hasegawa Atsuro Watabe
Music by	Chan Kwong-wing Kōji Endō Peach Present
Cinematography	Chung Chung-Hoon Christopher Doyle Koichi Kawakami
Release date(s)	August 20, 2004
Running time	118 minutes
Country	China Japan South Korea
Language	Mandarin Japanese Korean

Three... Extremes (Chinese: 三更2 Saam gaang yi) is a 2004 international East Asian horror film collaboration consisting of three segments by three directors from three countries. It is a sequel to, and follows the concept of Three (2002), this time with more established directors. The three segments are, in the following order:

• Dumplings, directed by Fruit Chan (Hong Kong)
• Cut, directed by Park Chan-wook (South Korea)
• Box, directed by Takashi Miike (Japan)

Fruit Chan later released Dumplings, a ninety-minute version of his segment.

Plot

• Dumplings - An aging actress wishing to reclaim her youth goes to a woman who makes dumplings that supposedly have regenerative properties; however, they contain a gruesome secret ingredient.
• Cut - A successful film director and his wife are kidnapped by an extra, who forces the director to play his sadistic games. If he fails, his wife's fingers will be chopped off one by one every five minutes.
• Box - A soft spoken young woman has a bizarre recurring nightmare about being buried in a box in the snow. Searching for her long lost sister, she realizes her dreams and reality may possibly be connected.

Cast

Dumplings

• Bai Ling as Mei
• Pauline Lau as Lee's maid
• Tony Leung Ka-fai as Lee
• Meme Tian as Connie

Cut

• Lee Byung-hun as Director
• Lim Won-hie as Stranger
• Kang Hye-jeong as Director's wife

Box

• Kyoko Hasegawa as Kyoko
• Atsuro Watabe as Yoshii/Higata
• Mai Suzuki as Young Kyoko
• Yuu Suzuki as Young Shoko

Dumplings theatrical

Dumplings was extended and turned into a full length theatrical film that was released into British cinemas by Tartan Films in the spring of 2006.

Box office

The film was released on November seventeenth, 2005 in nineteen North American theatres. Despite positive reviews by critics such as Roger Ebert, it grossed $36,414 ($1,916 per screen) in its opening week-end, and its final gross stands at a modest $77,532.

External links

• Three... Extremes at AllRovi
• Three... Extremes at the Internet Movie Database