A young man, whose only possession is a motorcycle, spends his time riding around the city looking for empty apartments. After finding one, he hangs out for a while, fixing himself something to eat, washing laundry or making small repairs in return. He always tries to leave before the owners get back but in one ostensibly empty mansion he meets the abused wife of a rich man and she escapes with him...

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Bin-jip, Bin-Jip - Der Schattenmann, Bin-Jip - Leere Häuser, うつせみ, Empty Houses, Hierro 3, Hierro-3, Locataires, Ferro 3, Casa Vazia, El espíritu de la pasión, Pusty dom, Пустой дом, Ferro 3 - La casa vuota, Ολομόναχοι Μαζί, Three Iron, Tomme hus, Boş Ev, Bin-Jip, 空房间, 3-iron, Lopakodó lelkek, Порожній будинок, להרגיש בבית, Bin-jip (Malplenaj domoj), Стик номер 3, Hierro-3 [빈집], 空屋情人, 感官樂園, Menaj în trei, Kẻ Ở Nhờ Kỳ Dị, Tušti namai, Järn 3:an

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31 Jan 2009

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• Unbelievable. Such a beautiful, mysterious and very well made film. Read that the movie was filmed in 16 days and the film editing was done in 10 days. Hats off to Director Kim ki-Duk. Very well acted. Amazing cinema.
• iron man 3 tried but couldn't top this masterpiece
• "It's hard to tell that the world we live in is either a reality or a dream" - End Quote, - Film Club Ranked: boxd.it/3M2sq That's why I don't golf and that's why I take my toothbrush with me everywhere I go. An absolute delight. When a habitual home squatter crosses paths with an abused housewife their lives blend and magical realism ensues. This movie is very, very quiet in ways that very few films are and it is mesmerizing. The story is bizarre, as are the performances, but in ways that I find very satisfying. I watched it twice in a row and I'm still a little speechless. Recommend.
• A relationship based on empathy and silence arises between two lonely individuals who meet randomly to discover unconditional love and rediscover life and the world around them. He is a wandering young man who breaks into house when the owners are not around; she is a woman trapped in a destructive marriage, locked in a golden cage with a selfish man. Bin-jip is an unconventional romance about silence and isolation that we sometimes resort to in order to distance ourselves from our surroundings, about the transforming capacity of love, and also contains some social criticism about the treatment of women and of those who are different and do not fit into the established norms. The scene in which she takes…
• We are all empty houses Waiting for someone To open the lock and set us free. One day, my wish comes true. A man arrives like a ghost And takes me away from my confinement. And I follow, without doubts, without reserve, Until I find my new destiny. — Kim Ki-duk “The human eye sees 180-degrees,” the prison guard remarks. The other side of that 180-degree sphere of human vision is where ghosts, shadows, and creeps live. The abused, the homeless, and the nobodys, too. Remember that. The other side of where we aren’t looking, where we aren’t paying attention, is where the culturally excluded and the socially undesirable live. These people are invisible to us. We wish they would disappear.…
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A very powerful, complex, symbolic and colorful drama. The plot is simple, and yet so deep. Kim Ki-Duk makes his second best masterpiece and makes an extremely brilliant use of the silence once more. A gem, and one of the best films of the modern era.