Three... Extremes (Saam gaang yi)

Three Asian directors, from Hong Kong, Korea, and Japan, join forces to create an omnibus horror film, Three...Extremes. In Fruit Chan's "Dumplings," shot by Christopher Doyle, Mrs. Li, a thirtysomething former actress with a philandering husband goes to visit Aunt Mei, who sells the most expensive dumplings in Hong Kong. Mrs. Li knows about their rejuvenating powers, and she also knows about their unpleasant main ingredient, but after some initial nausea, she digs right in. In Oldboy writer/director Park Chan-wook's "Cut," a successful filmmaker arrives home to find that a disgruntled extra has taken over his home, and fastened his pianist wife to the grand piano. The madman threatens to cut off the wife's fingers, one by one, unless the director strangles the helpless child he's tied to the couch. Takashi Miike directs the last segment, "Box," about a young author and former circus performer, Kyoko, seemingly haunted by the ghost of her twin sister, who died a mysterious and horrible death while practicing their act. Adding to Kyoko's trauma, her editor is a dead ringer for her old stepfather/ringmaster, who may have perished in the same "accident" that took her sister's life.

Cast:
Bai Ling (Mei)
Tony Leung Ka Fai (Lee)
Kyoko Hasegawa (Kyoko)
Atsurô Watabe (Yoshii)

Director: Fruit Chan, Takashi Miike, Chan-wook Park
Writer: Haruko Fukushima, Lilian Lee
Runtime: 125 min
Genre: Horror
Language: Cantonese, Japanese, Korean
Production Year: 2004