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Three Extremes

Horror | 2004 | 121 min |

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Fruit Chan's Dumplings serves up the incomparable Bai Ling as Aunt Mei, a dumpling sorceress with a very secret ingredient. When a desperate ex-TV star visits Mei for a dose of her dumplings (famous for their rejuvenating powers), the vain actress pays an eerie price for messing with Mother Nature.

In Cut, Park Chan-wook takes horror on a disturbingly gory ride. Lee Byung-hun plays a celebrated movie director enslaved by an extra who is positively psycho. Cut offers its hero one harrowing choice: he must kill an innocent child or witness his pianist wife's fingers cut off one by one.

In the fiendishly atmospheric Box, prolific filmmaker Takashi Miike transposes the mythic theme of sibling rivalry to a nightmarish end. Kyoko, a renowned novelist (Kyoko Hasegawa), is obsessed with visions of her dead sister and troubled by a recurring dream of being buried alive.

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David Courier, Sundance Film Festival

”Three accomplished and fiercely talented Asian directors combine forces in this chilling trilogy of terror. Three...Extremes exhumes the inherent evil lurking beneath the surface of civilization, the twisted human psyche, and the lengths we will tread to cling to our impossible hope of immortality.”

Screen

”Three Extremes is a tasty showpiece for three of Asia’s hottest directors. Fruit Chan’s Dumplings is one of the best things the Hong Kong maverick has ever done: a textbook exercise in the management of horror. The real stroke of genius here is in the counterpoint between the yeuch! storyline and the limpid beauty of Chris Doyle’s photography. In Cut, Park Chan-Wook gives us a meta-cinematic spin on the revenge theme that underlies so much of his work. Park certainly knows how to dose out the dramatic tension.”

Premiere

”A successful portmanteau film is Three Extremes, an Asian horror anthology from Fruit Chan (Hong Kong), Park Chan-wook (Korea) and Takeshi Miike (Japan) who all came up with very different ways of scaring the audience. Chan's Dumplings is a deliciously blackly comic tale, Chan-wook's Cut is the most extreme (and gory) of the three, and Miike's ghost story Box is hauntingly poetic and beautifully restrained. Lyrically shot by the staggeringly prolific director, this atypical outing from the normally outrageous Miike provided a deeply satisfying end to a fascinating trilogy of”

Filmthreat.com

”You wanted the best? You got the best! These guys are all at the top of their game and they’re gonna take you on an interesting trip. Takashi Miike’s “Box” is a breath of fresh air for folks who frequent the filmmaker’s brutal cinema. This is a film that gets better the more you chew on it and it’s”

Michael Atkinson, The Village Voice

”May be the most viciously conceived piece of social satire the continent's seen since Iron Man.”

Rotterdam Film Festival

”Nail biting about human shortcomings comes surrealistically yet terrifyingly to the surface in three segments.”