Bin-jip (2004)

English titles: 3-Iron; Empty Houses.
Synopsis (MAJOR spoilers!): A wanderer breaks into empty houses to sleep, watch TV, etc. He goes away before the owner returns. He doesn't take anything from the house (except the food he eats) and makes small repairs. He also takes photos of himself next to some family picture. One day he meets a woman in one of the houses he breaks into. She is an unhappy wife who is constantly beaten and oppressed by her husband. They start a friendship. When her husband returns she flees with the wanderer. One day they break into a house that has a corpse in it. They bury it. Unfortunately, the relatives of the deceased arrive and the couple is arrested. She is released but he must serve a prison sentence for breaking and entering as well as abandoning a dead body. After some time he is released and avenges himself on all the people that mistreated him. Then he goes back to his beloved one. P.S. did I mention that this goofball has the hobby of hitting golf balls, and that he accidentally kills someone inside a car with one of his balls? And that he is able to climb, lizardlike, prison cell walls? And that the film ends with a caption saying "Sometimes it's hard to tell reality from dream"?
Appraisal: Another uninspired effort from the maker of Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring. Both films received a favorable critical response, go figure. This one was less praised, it seems, and is indeed the worse of the two, a boring and often ridiculous love story with surreal pretensions that trips at its own silliness.
Rating: 28