By Leandro E. Seta

Written and directed by Kim Ki-duk, winner of the Berlin Silver Bear among many other prices. “Bin jip” or “3-iron”, has won fifteen international awards, including Film Critics’ awards in Korea, San Sebastian and Valladolid. With its sensitive story and silently crafted narrative, it was very well received in Europe and in America, where it is already considered a classic.

Working placing food flyers on the neighborhood door knobs has a collateral benefit: predicting accurately which of those houses is inhabited and which has been empty for 2 or 3 days with no one picking up the flyers from the door. This information has an elemental value for our drifter hero Tae-suk, played by Lee Hyun-kyoon. He takes advantage of the empty house of a vacationing family or the apartment of a photographer on business travel and makes them his home for a couple of days.