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3-Iron (2005)

Seung-yeon Lee , Hyun-kyoon Lee , Ki-duk Kim  |  R |  DVD
4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (49 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Seung-yeon Lee, Hyun-kyoon Lee, Hyuk-ho Kwon, Jeong-ho Choi, Ju-seok Lee
  • Directors: Ki-duk Kim
  • Writers: Ki-duk Kim
  • Producers: Ki-duk Kim, Michiko Suzuki, Yong-bae Choi, Youngjoo Suh
  • Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
  • Language: Korean (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 2.1)
  • Subtitles: English, French
  • Dubbed: French
  • Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
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  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated: R (Restricted)
  • Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: September 6, 2005
  • Run Time: 88 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (49 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000A1OFZA
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #36,619 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • Learn more about "3-Iron" on IMDb

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  • Director audio commentary

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Words really do get in the way in 3-Iron, a strange, poignant South Korean film from director Kim Ki-Duk (Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring) in which the central character doesn't utter a single word. It's not explained why the puck never speaks, but it adds an element of mysticism to this love story that's at once humorous and disturbing. In this case, the knight in shining armor, Tae-Suk (Hee Jae) is a vagabond who supports himself by breaking into people's homes when they're on vacation. But rather than steal possessions, he cooks himself a meal, carefully washes the dishes, takes a bath, does their laundry, fixes anything broken, sleeps in their pajamas, and leaves each home spic and span. One day he trespasses on the home of a battered wife (Seung-yon Lee) who's still home. Fascinated, she leaves her husband and joins in his adventures, until one of their random break-ins gets them in trouble and the couple is forced apart.

Adding in a reliance on some stunning visuals, 3-Iron does a good job filling itself out in a non-implicit way. In this case, compliments and banter aren't needed to tell you that the pair has found a bond that no one can wrest away from them. The ending may tickle suspended reality (it's either becoming supernatural or someone's a lot more nimble than we thought), but it's still a poetic conclusion to this twisted fairy tale. --Ellen A. Kim

Product Description

Mysterious drifter Tae-suk enters other peoples' lives as easily as he breaks into their unoccupied homes. Instead of stealing their riches, he repays his hosts' unknowing hospitality by fixing broken items, cleaning up, even doing their laundry. But when he sneaks into a sprawling mansion, he discovers a beautiful, lonely wife named Sun-hwa, trapped in a loveless marriage. Without saying a word, the pair begin an erotic game of cat-and-mouse, until her abusive husband returns home, unleashing a shocking burst of violence. Tae-suk defends Sun-hwa with the aid of her husband's golf club. The lovers run away together finding domestic bliss inhabiting strangers' homes. Later, when Tae-suk is framed for a murder, even prison walls can't keep them apart for good.

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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Pixie-like Sweetness & Simplicity November 21, 2005
Format:DVD
"3-Iron" is a delightful surprise. Kim Ki-duk's "Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter" was so lyrical and so cinematically beautiful that it is amazing that this DVD keeps up that film's quality. The fact that most of the film is nonverbal makes this subtitled drama particularly easy for international audiences to adopt. Jae Hee Song as the young lead Tae-suk is good looking and keeps our eyes glued to the screen. The unusual plot of a young man who breaks into houses and apartments while the owners are away is filled with lyrical details. In one scene, he carefully selects a toothbrush before sitting on the toilet brushing his teeth. He seems to experience the lives of the people by seeing their surroundings, cleaning their clothes, fixing appliances & eating their food. Lee Seung-yeon was in a 1996 film about a serial killer called "Pianoman" before taking on the role of Sun-hwa. Sun is an abused wife of a controlling husband. Tae-suk inhabits her house as she quietly observes him taking a bath and reveals herself to him as he lies in her bed self-stimulating to nude pictures of her from an album. Her middle aged controlling husband Min-kyo played by Gweon Hyeok-ho returns from a business trip. He has bruised her face and bloodied her lip and blames her for not picking up the phone and speaking to him. Depressed, she falls into an exquisite wordlessness that suits Tae-suk's observant lifestyle of stepping into other people's lives. After the husband has slapped his wife, Tae-suk launches golf balls into the squealing husband.... Read more ›
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25 of 27 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Great Korean film August 3, 2005
Format:DVD
One of the more talented Korean directors working today is Kim-ki Duk whose latest film 3-Iron, was released this year (2005) here in the US and is out on DVD domestically in September. This is the tale of a young guy--nameless-who makes a meager living as a distributor of promo flyers for an eating establishment and also has the habit of breaking into the homes of people who are away so he can eat their food and maybe take a nap. But he's not completely malicious; one of his great virtues is the ability to clean clothes by hand.

One such house he breaks into is that of a middle-aged man with a young wife who's been mistreated. As he goes about his gentle intruder business he doesn't realize, at first, that the wife is right there in the house with him, although her husband is not. It's obvious from her appearance that she's been recently roughed up. She watches him fascinated and finally makes her presence known.

The two of them hook up with each other almost immediately and as one thing leads to another, the convergence of the spurned husband, an angry cop, an angrier prison guard, and the two lovers--along with the game of golf (from which the film derives its title) results in a unique film that, although almost 70% dialogue free, is a really compelling love story.

There's a sequence in a prison cell with the male lead that is truly imaginative, absorbing, even compelling. And the device of the scale being modified (our protagonist is also an expert at "fixing" things) is very clever, especially as shown at the very end of the film when the lovers stand on the scale together and the combined weight is somewhat less than it should be.
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23 of 25 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars On The Run April 30, 2005
When Tae Suk (Jae Hee) and Sun-hwa (Lee Seung-yeong) meet or more to the point see each other for the first time, it takes but a moment for them to realize they were meant to be together: one, very quiet moment you see because neither of them utter nary a word during the bulk of Ki-Duk Kim's "3 Iron." In fact, in this movie it is only the loud mouths, the abusers, the malcontents, the bullies, the bad guys who speak out loud and when they do, it usually is a scream, a put down or an abuse.

Tae Suk has an ingenious style of living: he breaks into unoccupied homes and settles down for a night or two. He even does any laundry he finds and neatly hangs it out to dry. He also repairs anything he finds broken: he is the ultimate, caring intruder as, even though he eats whatever is in the refrigerator, he often leaves the home cleaner than he finds it.

It is during one of those "stays" that Tae-Suk meets Sun-hwa, who escapes her abusive husband and joins Tae-Suk in his vagabond ways. Almost immediately, Tae-Suk and Sun-hwa are in sync in what becomes "their" quest to find the perfect home to occupy. One such home is decorated in the traditional Korean-style with a beautiful garden and the two are the most tranquil and at peace there as befits their obviously loved and care-for surroundings.

As with all fables, and "3 Iron" is definitely one, the real world intrudes in the person of Min-kyu (Kwon Hyuk-ho), Sun-hwa's abusive and obnoxious husband who promptly buys off the police and has Tae-Suk arrested and sends Sun-hwa into a major depression.

Director Ki-Duk Kim (the sublime "Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring") delicately slices open Korean society and exposes the ugly underbelly and the real brutality the often passes for love and caring.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Lyrical,lovelystrange & wonderful love story
I love this movie so much I have actually bought it on AMAzon TWICE and given it away twice too!!! Lyrical beautiful almost a silent movie it is such an unexpected delightful love... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Birgit Mitchell C/O Wahluke High School
4.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, Weird, Wonderful...
A film with virtually no dialogue, set in Korea, that wasn't particularly popular IN Korea - doesn't sound too promising. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Steven J. Weller
5.0 out of 5 stars Clean my Home PLEASE
My golf buddies kept telling me about this movie. Never have I seen a movie with practically no talking from the main two characters. Read more
Published 3 months ago by J. Hall
4.0 out of 5 stars Definitely one of the most *unique* films you'll ever see
I figure there are enough reviews on here about the plot, and seeing as how the plot isn't half the fun of the this film, I'm going to focus instead on my impressions. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Austin Fitzgerald
5.0 out of 5 stars 3-Iron
Haven't had a chance to watch it yet. Saw it on Encore channell & loved it. Went straight to Amazon,Where you can find almost
any movie & bought It.
Published 6 months ago by Thomas Stankard
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing!
This has now become my favorite movie, ever. It is incredible that by removing the dialogue from this film really the audience is able to see the characters more clearly and feel... Read more
Published 10 months ago by clnoise
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Movie
I will be brief. If you want to know what love is, and isn't, watch this movie. It is one of the best movies I've ever watched.
Published 17 months ago by Kathryn S. Leon
5.0 out of 5 stars My favorite.
If you haven't seen this, go watch it now! Its a beautiful film. The two main characters never say anything to each other but has good body language which they communicate.
Published 17 months ago by Desirae Vaccaro
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome
This movie is the best...I expecting it to be Koren at the menu but It was in English. Even thought this movie was made in 2004 (a little old) It's great. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Yu-Sen
5.0 out of 5 stars one of my favorite movies.. A GREAT BUY
I dont even BUY movies, I find it useless because of the creation of internet, but, i this is such an amazing piece, i want it forever. Read more
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