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2\/6\/2006<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/a>Color, R (mature themes, violence, language), 125 min., DVD only $27.98; Cantonese, Japanese, Korean and Mandarin with English subtitles. DVD: Takashi Miike’s commentary. Street: Feb. 28, Prebook: now. First Run: L, Oct. 2005, <$1 mil>. LIONSGATE<\/span><\/p>\n

Directors: Fruit Chan, Park Chan-wook, Takashi Miike<\/span><\/p>\n

Story Line: An anthology of horror tales, Three Extremes<\/em> includes “Dumplings,” in which an aging actress (Yeung) discovers a secret delicacy that brings back her youth; “Cut,” in which a movie director (Byung-hung) is tormented by an angry extra (Hye-jung); and “Box,” in which a novelist (Hasegawa) is haunted by the spirit of her dead sister.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bottom Line: This accurately titled film finds a trio of craftsmen trying to outdo each other in the arena of shock horror. Each entry has its own pace and mood, but all three end in a delirious manner and dote on nasty elements, from aborted fetuses to amputated fingers in a blender. Surprisingly, cult director and master of gross-out sequences Miike (Gozu<\/em>) contributes the tamest and most genuinely scary episode, as his heroine in “Box” is confronted by jarringly composed images that reflect and distort her unhappy childhood. Chan-wook’s (Old Boy<\/em>) “Cut” is an uncharacteristically unpleasant, sadistic bit of business that mixes dark humor and gradual dismemberment. “Dumplings” from Hong Kong director Chan was released as a feature-length horror pic in Asia, which could explain why it seems so infernally elliptical as a 38-minute short. But Extremes<\/em> should do very well with Asian horror cultists and fans of the wildly prolific Miike. —Ed Grant<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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