A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

This is the second installment of the Three Extremes films. Far less interesting than the first one. 2/3 arent worth watching at all.Memories, The Wheel and Coming Home are the titles of the films. Memories and the Wheel were bland and boring. Coming Home was the interesting one. Its about a single father cop moving into a new apartment and their neighbour, a husband who is taking care of his paralyzed wife.

3 shorts with varied results"Memories" Kim Ji-Woon (Korea) 8/10"The Wheel" Nonzee Nimibutr (Thailand) 5/10"Coming Home" Peter Ho-Sun Chan (China) 9/10Kim Ji-Woon has some stylish and effective camera-work (Kyung-pyo Hong) to convey the plight of a separated couple. There are some scary and beautiful moments. He is a Korean director that seems to be able to do not wrong and his cinematographer would later win awards with landmark movies like Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (2004), Mother (2009), Snowpiercer (2013) and The Wailing (2016). The female lead from Busan (Kim Hye-Soo) is gorgeous and well captured on film in this fantasy horror.Nonzee Nimibutr manage some set pieces with some symbolic fire and details traditional statutes and wardrobe, yet fails to convey fear or interest in his haunted puppet ploy. His sexual-charged Jan Dara (2001) is a classic of Thai cinema.Peter Ho-Sun Chan makes a daring take on (also) a sort of separated couple story. He boasts brilliant editing and engaging writing and acting. He works with cinematography legend Christopher Doyle who delivers solid city atmospheric scenes. This Hong Kong director had more than 10 feature films before this short and later would direct the well-received The Warlords (2007).

of all the films, going home was the only one i really found memorable. the story was unique, and the sets were wonderfully atmospheric as well as the soundtrack.it's full of a stark kind of beauty - i didn't find it the least bit horrifying, and it was actually quite a sad tale that moves at a very slow pace that really kept me wondering how things would end.spoiler below.what i didn't understand is what happened to the little boy. i believed the little girl was the couple's unborn child, but why could the little boy see her, and what happened to him? what did the photographer's studio have to do with the story? it seems like the only people who saw her were the photographer who seemed to address her in the opening sequence, and the little boy.this is the first i've seen of a Chinese 'horror' film, i look forward to seeing more in the future. any recommendations out there?

SPOILERS!! SPOILERS!! SPOILERS!! SPOILERS!! SPOILERS!! SPOILERS!!Three short films from three places, South Korea, Thailand and Hong Kong, each progressively better than the last, and certainly worth the viewing. Memories is a sometimes heavy handed jumper with some very cool gross out moments at the end that begin with a heavy nod to the Ring then carry a few steps further deliciously. Downside, the Tales from the Crypt punchline left me feeling pretty empty, really. Told through two simultaneous inter-cut narratives, one follows the hubby trying to remember what he did, while the other follows the wife waking up with amnesia in a street. The hubby material is generally boring and laden with noise blast jumper moments that are OK, but nothing new, except the visitation from the apparent ghost of the missing wife whole feels a brain is a good thing to waste after all. Nice one. The wife's narrative as she goes through a mini-Memento tracking through the clues and flashes of memory trying to figure out who and where she is kicks ass. This is well shot, well edited, tense and absolutely wonderful. Apparently also too good to be true, because the climax of the short film is apparently a simultaneous realization by both people as to what had happened between them. Neat. Now we've managed to resolve the mystery, true, in the lamest way possible, well, not completely lame, it's definitely disturbing on a visceral level which has appeal on a base level, BUT now we also feel empty, because the wife, who by now we dig, well her whole struggle and journey past the scary construction sites and insane cab driver, now all of that is rendered useless and unjustified, while the hubby rides off into the sunset the tail end of a Viagra commercial. Damn, almost a genius piece of jumper genre fare. The Wheel is a very captivating and almost completely alien yarn that works well and moreover is generally fun to watch. Starts a bit slow, and the appearance of dead loved ones could have been held off until the end, and didn't get the crying blood thing but it looked cool so who cares? Ends extremely well, who can frown on a machete welding preschooler? Moving on. Going Home is what I bought this anthology for without even knowing it. Oh my. Beautifully rendered in every department, the location is an astoundingly effective nearly abandoned pair of adjacent dense apartment towers in the seedier side of HK, where we follow a Dad and son moving in while everyone else is moving out (the building is going to be demolished in a month explains the manager). We meet another couple and a little girl, and we learn through brilliant art direction all kinds of things, like how ghosts do graffiti, how Eastern medicine cures liver cancer, how to best groom and maintain a beloved wife who has taken a three year hiatus from living to get well again, and most importantly, how big a urine bottle needs to be to adequately provide for your well saturated hostage. I'm making light only because I'm giddy with joy over how fresh, beautiful, terrifying, disturbing and ultimately heart touching (did I say "touching", more like "pounding with a meat cleaver and pair of well matched tuna"). Been a long time since I've burst into tears during a movie, not counting tears of frustration. I love this film, and frankly, of the three, this one most deserves to be remade as a full length feature with more characters and intertwined stories, because frankly, the location alone is simply a freak magnet. And here I also have to retract earlier snide remarks about Leon Lai. Although I expect he was massively directed, still, in this he was simply perfect, and trust me, his role would not be an easy one to pull off for most actors, not convincingly anyway. Perhaps he has found his true niche in cinema? And as for the rest of the cast? Although familiar already with the power of Eric Tsang, the rest of the cast was new to me, and further, blew me away as well, astounding as two of the actors I'm referring to are tiny children, not something I'm generally impressed by. And how does the beautiful Eugenia Yuan manage to hold so still playing a stiff and still manage to convey her character? (something I've ironically accused Leon Lai of doing in the past, ha ha. Ok, I did like his album "Sound". So sue me...)