Put together as a three-way Asian co-production by Applause Pictures in Hong Kong, Three is a ghost-story omnibus. All three episodes contain startling and occasionally scary images, but the overall tone is more elegiac than shocking: this is a seriously beautiful movie. Not surprisingly, each story reflects the supernatural traditions and contemporary fears of the culture it comes from. Kim Ji-Woon's Memories (Korea) is set in a not-yet-finished dormitory town outside Seoul. Sung-Min's wife has disappeared and he is suffering strange memory lapses; meanwhile his wife wakes in an unfamiliar landscape and tries to find her way home. In Nonzee Nimibutr's The Wheel (Thailand), the leader of a khon temple dance troupe reaches for greater prestige and prosperity by founding a hun lakorn lek puppet troupe--but underestimates the proprietorial curses which traditionally cling to puppets. And in Peter Chan's Coming Home (Hong Kong) a single-parent cop (Eric Tsang) searches for his missing son and stumbles upon a bizarre secret involving his neighbour (Leon Lai) and an extremist use of Chinese herbal medicine.- Tony Rayns
Directors
Kim Ji-Woon, Nonzee Nimibutr, Peter Chan Ho Sun
Countries of production
South Korea, Thailand, Hong Kong
Year
2002
Festival Edition
IFFR 2003
Length
120'
Medium
35mm
Languages
Korean, Thai, Chinese
Producers
Applause Pictures Ltd., Cinemasia
Sales
Fortissimo Films
Screenplay
Jojo Hui, Kim Ji-Woon
Cinematography
Christopher Doyle
Local Distributor
A-Film Distribution
Directors
Kim Ji-Woon, Nonzee Nimibutr, Peter Chan Ho Sun
Countries of production
South Korea, Thailand, Hong Kong
Year
2002
Festival Edition
IFFR 2003
Length
120'
Medium
35mm
Languages
Korean, Thai, Chinese
Producers
Applause Pictures Ltd., Cinemasia
Sales
Fortissimo Films
Screenplay
Jojo Hui, Kim Ji-Woon
Cinematography
Christopher Doyle
Local Distributor
A-Film Distribution