Archive of films 3-Iron / Bin-Jip

South Korea / Japan
2004, 89 min

Section: Horizons
Year: 2005

Renowned Korean filmmaker Kim Ki-duk follows up his last film Samaritan Girl with the award-winning movie Bin-jip (Special Director’s  Award at the 2004 Venice IFF). This engaging meditation on the strange nature of evil depicts an encounter between a young biker, who likes to sleep in stranger’s apartments, and the young abused wife of a rich man. Escaping together, a fragile love affair grows between them, but necessity comes into conflict with cruel realities.


Synopsis

In 2002 the KV IFF dedicated a retrospective to leading Korean filmmaker Kim Ki-duk and screened two of his films last year as well. The director’s contribution this year (given the Special Director’s Award and more at the 2004 Venice IFF) is reminiscent of his last feature Samaritan Girl. This time around the heroes of this sophisticated narrative are two young people whose chance meeting develops into an unusual love affair. A young man named Tae-suk, whose only possession is a powerful motorcycle, spends his time riding around the city looking for empty apartments. After finding one, he hangs out for a while, fixing himself something to eat and washing laundry or making small repairs in return. He always tries to leave before the owners get back but he isn’t always successful. In one ostensibly empty mansion he meets the abused wife of a rich man. She joins him.... Kim Ki-duk shot the movie in a very short time and has, in his own unusual way, created a meditation on violence, injustice, and cruelty in which roles are reversed.

About the director

Kim Ki-duk

Kim Ki-duk (b. 1960, Kyongsang Province) as a young man worked in a factory, he was a sailor, and spent five years in the army. He also sold his paintings for two years in Paris. He then began writing screenplays and made a name for himself as a controversial director of films that combined deep melancholy with brutality and erotic extremes. He has become South Korea’s leading director, and his films were profiled at the 37th Karlovy Vary IFF (2002). His work often features outcasts or those hounded by obsessive feelings of guilt. He shouldn’t be mistaken with the director of the same name who worked in the 60s and 70s. Filmography: Crocodile (1996), the drama Wild Animals (1997), The Birdcage Inn (1998), The Isle (2000), the political drama Address Unknown (2001), Bad Guy (2001), Coast Guard (2002), Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring (2003), Samaritan Girl (2004), 3-Iron (2004).

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About the film

Color, 35 mm

Section: Horizons
   
Director: Kim Ki-duk
Screenplay: Kim Ki-duk
Dir. of Photography: Jang Seung-baek
Music: SLVIAN
Editor: Kim Ki-duk
Producer: Kim Ki-duk, koprodukce/co-production Cineclick Asia
Production: KIM KI-DUK FILM
Cast: Lee Seung-yeon, Jae Hee
Contact: Cineclick Asia, Artcam Films
   
www: www.cineclickasia.com

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