Tae-suk is homeless and lives like a phantom. His daily routine involves temporarily staying in houses and apartments he knows to be vacant.
He never steals from nor damages his unknowing hosts’ homes; rather, he is like a kind ghost, sleeping in other people’s beds, eating a little food out of strangers’ refrigerators and repaying their unintended hospitality by doing the laundry or making small repairs.
Sun-hwa was once a beautiful model, but she has become withered living under the shadow of her abusive husband, who keeps her imprisoned in their affluent, expensively decorated house.
Tae-suk and Sun-hwa are bound by fate to cross paths though their invisible existences. They meet when Tae-suk breaks into Sun-hwa’s house and they instantly recognize the similarity of their souls. As if bound by unseen ties, they find themselves unable to separate and quietly accept their bizarre new destiny. --MSN
Cast: Lee Seung-yeon, Jae Hee, Kwon Hyuk-ho
Venice (Competition): FIPRESCI Prize, Little Golden Lion, Special Director's Award, Toronto, Sundance (Premieres)
About this movie
Title: 3-Iron | Empty Houses | Bin-jip (2004)
Directed by: Kim Ki-duk
Date of birth: 20 December 1960, South Korea, Bongwha
Writing credits: Kim Ki-duk
Music: Slvian
Year: 2004
Country: South Korea | Japan
Language: Korean
Color: Color
Runtime: 95 min.