Trio

Trio (1997)

3인조

Han is a suicidal saxophonist, Mun is a violent simpleton with an I.Q. of 80, and Maria is a single mother with dreams of becoming a nun. Han has tried numerous times to kill himself, but nothing ever works. After witnessing his wife's infidelity, it's the last straw.

Date of release
1997-05-24
TMDB
4.8 / 10 (19)
Runtime
1h 43m
Genres
Comedy, Crime
Director
Park Chan-wook

Casting

Interesting facts

Trio is the second feature film by South Korean film director Park Chan-wook, released in 1997. Similarly to his debut film, The Moon Is... the Sun's Dream, it has been seen by relatively few people outside of Korea.

Production

Park was asked by film producer Dong-gyu Ahn to make a film similar in tone to Léon, a French film written and directed by Luc Besson. Park had never seen the film, but had previously wanted to make a film about a series of armed robberies committed from 1972 to 1974 in South Korea, and chose to use that as a basis. Park was also initially influenced by the works of Abel Ferrara.

However, as time passed, the production company for the film changed, and the film lost its wild and violent conception, becoming closer to a mainstream film. Park took blame for the film's perceived failure, saying, "I regret Trio much more than my first movie."

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