Three Charmed Lives

2014, Chang Chen, Jung Woo-sung, Francis Ng, Mandarin/Korean/Cantonese, 83 minutes

Three Charmed Lives invites three of East Asia’s most celebrated actors to direct three short films about desperate men. Chang Chen’s Inchworm depicts an unemployed man seeking emotional comfort in video games and in his memories of a lost family life. In Jung Woo-sung’s The Killer Behind, The Old Man, a hit man hiding out in a gym, struggles to reject an offer: a son who wants his father dead. Francis Ng’s The Tangerine tells the story of a fugitive’s chance meeting with a stranger.