Director Song Neung-han

He began his career in filmmaking by writing screenplays for films and TV dramas, and No.3 is his directorial debut. He began with the motive of the scene in 'Chaos' where different kinds of lives collide. In studying the characters, he wrote the screenplay and came up with the storyboard within just four days. He said he had chosen this story as he was getting tired of Korean society being filled with gangsters and their followers. He introduced several characters to explain the betrayal of morals that society now lacks. The message of the film is not just one. "It's not important whether or not the film has a message. I just wanted to tell the story I wanted to tell". In creating multiple episodes within the film structure, he said he did not want to follow any particular style. The film is full of parodies and the language which connotes multiple meanings within the film. Much of "the drive of the film comes from the dialogue of each character. All of them are the parodies of existing social characters," said Song. He observed and analysed characters like the kind we can see in his film while he was writing the screenplay. In creating the characters, instead of just showing archetypes, he picked a particular style from each and described in examples. His characters are the images of people we often run into in our everyday lives. The film critics of Korea hope that he will be one of the leading forces of Korean cinema in the future. Currently, he is preparing for his next project as well as giving lectures at a college.

Director's Statement

This film is about the ridiculous stories of the third-rate lives living in this city at the end of the '90s. They are the gangsters who live like ordinary guys, the bar hostess who becomes a best-selling poet, and the 'nuclear-bomb' prosecutor who is more like a gangster than the actual gangsters themselves. All the characters in this film are third-rate lives but as they love and betray one another, they are earnestly working hard to get by in their own way. These are not exaggerated characters that you can only see in films. They are like our neighbors, 'smelling like real people,' people we can often find in our dinky daily lives. Permeated throughout this film is anger aimed at real gangsters spread out in the world and those who do not work up a sweat. If you are not a 'real gangster,' then there is a character in this film that you can definitely identify with. It is because this film is telling your story.