AKA: 3 Extremes II
Original Title: Saam gaang
Genre: Horror/Thriller
Countries:
South Korea, Thailand, Hong Kong
Release Date:May 1, 2002
Rating: R for violence, disturbing images, brief sexuality and some nudity
Directors:
Peter Ho-Sun Chan (segment "Going Home")
Ji-woon Kim (segment "Memories")
Nonzee Nimibutr (segment "The Wheel")
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Starring: Hye-su Kim, Bo-seok Jeong, Suwinit Panjamawat, Leon Lai, Eric Tsang, Eugenia Yuan, Ting-Fung Li
Studio: Applause Pictures, CJ Entertainment & Sahamongkol Film
On DVD: April 25th, 2006
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Three does not precisely refer to a variable, a theme, a trinity, or all of the above, but at best, an impenetrable code of mysteries. Amidst the labyrinth of human nature, fear is perhaps the most mysterious, if not the most unique emotion of all. It constitutes a drive so powerful that can induce acts as outrageous and unimaginable as those against our will and desire. Through fear the dictators become invincible, and through fear we transgress the limit of our capability. It is this un-chartered zone that would always feed the wildest imagination of directors of all generation. (from 3 - Directors' Notes)
Going Home | directed by Peter Chan (Hong Kong)
Keong is an eight-year-old raised by a single parent. His father Wai is a plain-clothes detective preoccupied by both his work and grief over his long deceased wife. The story begins with the father and son moving into a deserted police dormitory. The neighborhood is run-down, sparsely populated by either the elderly or the absent-minded. Keong finds an abandoned photo studio in the neighborhood particularly eerie, but not as much as the four-year-old girl and her father Yu Fai living next door.
Yu Fai is a detached character. Except when shopping for necessities, he stays indoor at all times. His house, always filled with steam, its windows tightly shut, has numerous ventilators running at all hours. Yu Fai has always declared that he lives alone but Kin has spotted him talking to a somewhat paralyzed woman inside his apartment…
Keong disappears suddenly, and out of desperation, Wai breaks into Yu Fai’s apartment. Wai locates a bizarre corpse – exquisitely preserved to an extent that its skin remains elastic. It is the body of Yu Fai’s wife whom Yu Fai murdered three years ago. There is no sign of remorse from Yu Fai who firmly believes that he will soon resurrect his wife. Intrigued by Yu Fai’s candor and integrity, Wai worries more that he is dealing with an extremely passionate lunatic, and that his son Keong has already encountered the most excruciating foul play …
Memories | directed by Kim Ji-Woon (South Korea)
Sung-min is a married man in his thirties, living in a brand new apartment building that is not yet fully occupied. One day, his wife vanishes.
Sung-min suffers some sort of amnesia afterwards; he remembers neither the clothes his wife was wearing nor the reason why she left home on the day of her disappearance. However hard he may try, he can only recall fragments of mundane quarrels and nuances, along with some incomprehensible instances. Furthermore, he begins to suffer from nightmares. The truth begins to dawn on him when he witnesses a terrible car accident in his neighborhood. Sung-min is certain that something terrible has happened to his wife, only he doesn’t know what it is.
On the other hand, Sung-min's wife wakes up and finds herself lying in an empty street. Her condition is far worse than Sung-min’s; she has no idea who she is or what brings her there. While searching through her own purse, hoping to find some clues, she finds a piece of laundry receipt with a phone number on it.
She calls the number on the laundry receipt, but there are no answers. She wanders around the desolate city striving for answers, only to come to a dead end. Out of despair, she looks at the laundry receipt again and suddenly spots an address written on it. Thinking that it may well be hers, she wanders through the empty new-town street. It is already nightfall when she embarks on her way home and she encounters a series of appalling terrors on the way. Barely surviving the misadventures, she finally arrives at her apartment and hurriedly opens the door …
The Wheel | directed by Nonzee Nimibutr (Thailand)
Ornate puppets that once belonged to the legendary Thai puppeteers known as the Hun Lakom Lek. However, as coveted as these puppets are, they also carry with them a terrible curse. The puppets' last owner, the elderly Master Tao is on death's door, and even worse, he can't stop seeing the spirits of his wife and son.
But even Tao's tragic fate isn't enough to dissuade Kru Tong (Pongsanart Vinsin) from wanting the puppets. Tong, a masked street performer, steals them, convinced that he can use them to make something of his life. But of course, the curse cannot be undone, as people close to Tong begin to suffer the tragic consequences of his actions. To stem the tide of death, Gaan (Suwinit Panjamawat), Master Tao's apprentice, enters into the picture trying to convince others about the curse, but will he succeed? Kru Tong truly believes that he can avoid the curse's wrath, but how can he when all those who come in contact with the puppets are doomed to a terrible fate? Can Kru Tong amend his ways and escape the Wheel of Karma?
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