Three... Extremes

Three... Extremes
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Fruit Chan Park Chan-wook Takashi Miike
Produced by	Ahn Soo-hyun Peter Ho-sun Chan Fumio Inoue Naoki Sato Shun Shimizu
Written by	Dumplings: Lilian Lee Cut: Park Chan-wook Box: Bun Saikou Haruko Fukushima
Starring	Bai Ling Tony Leung Ka-fai Lee Byung-hun Im Won-hee Kyoko Hasegawa Atsuro Watabe
Music by	Chan Kwong-wing Kōji Endō Peach Present
Cinematography	Chung Chung-hoon Christopher Doyle Koichi Kawakami
Release date	October 28, 2005 (2005-10-28)
Running time	125 minutes
Country	Hong Kong Japan South Korea
Language	Cantonese Mandarin Japanese Korean
Box office	$509,486

Three... Extremes (Chinese: 三更2; pinyin: Sāngēng 2; Hangul: 쓰리, 몬스터; RR: Sseuli, Monseuteo; Japanese: 美しい夜、残酷な朝; Utsukushī Yoru, Zankokuna Asa) is a 2004 international East Asian horror film collaboration consisting of three segments by three directors from three countries. It is a sequel to, and follows the concept of Three (2002), this time with more established directors.

Its first film, Dumplings, was expanded into a theatrical feature film.

Aging actress Mrs. Li wants to rejuvenate her youth and beauty to attract the attention of her husband, Li, who has secretly taken a mistress behind her back. She buys dumplings from Aunt Mei, a mysterious seller who claims to be much older than she appears. However, to her disgust, she learns that the dumplings are in fact made from aborted fetuses, which Mei takes from a nearby hospital that has a secret abortion facility, as well as working as an abortion midwife herself.

Nevertheless, Mrs. Li decides to continue eating the fetus dumplings. One of them, made from a five month old fetus (the 'oldest' of the aborted fetuses thus far), seems to have a positive effect on Mrs. Li's libido, yet it also causes her skin to exhibit a fishy smell. Eventually, Mei has to move out when the authorities are about to capture her. Mrs. Li, now two months pregnant despite being declared infertile earlier, is still desperate for a rejuvenation and chooses to abort her own fetus, presumably to make it into dumplings.

A successful film director has to face a night of misery when an extra, who appeared in five of his films, captures both him and his wife to play a deadly game. The director is instructed to strangle a girl the extra met while on the way, or else he will chop off his wife's fingers one by one every five minutes. The extra reveals that he kidnapped the couple because he is jealous that the director is able to be a rich and good man, while he is poor and abusive to his wife and son, the former of whom he murdered before the incident.