3 Scoundrels

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3 Scoundrels
Directed byHenry Luttich
Written byShizuku Honda
Norbert Chánh Lê
Produced byQuách Ý Thắng
StarringRichard Philip Todd
William George Hoang
Emrick Brennan
Akino Terai
Pierce MacLean
Đoàn Khán Dũng
Narrated byWilliam George Hoang
CinematographyThomas Evans
Music byAngus MacDonald
Nguyễn Bạch Chinh
Production
companies
Distributed byEndelmann Pictures
Crazy Monkey Films
Release date
25 December 2016
Running time
171 minutes
CountriesUnited Kingdom
Quenmin
LanguagesEnglish
Quenminese
Budget175 million Gil
Box office6.5 billion Gil

3 Scoundrels (3人の怪人 3-Ri no kaijin) is a 2016 Lucian-Quenminese coming of age comedy film directed by Wintergrand award-winning director Henry Luttich, who is known for his film, Tankolympics. The film stars Richard Philip Todd, William George Hoang, Emrick Brennan, Akino Terai, Pierce MacLean, Đoàn Khán Dũng and Thạch Đình Tắc.

Upon release, the film was the highest-grossing film in its opening weekend in the United Kingdom and Quenmin and had the highest opening day collections for an collaboration film up until that point. It also held the record for the highest net collections in the first week for a LucioQuen film.

Half of the film's gross was donated to the Joint Association of Commonwealth and Quenminese Veterans.

Plot

Cast

  • Richard Philip Todd as Frederick "Fred" Paddock/Rick/Derrick Philip Mallory - one of the title group of three friends in the engineering college. An Australian immigrant to Quenmin, He went missing after graduation and after 10 years his two friends traveled across Quenmin looking for him, while telling stories of their time in engineering college together. Fred, as a student, was intelligent and had a brilliant personal philosophy. He rallied against unjust systems of teaching. At the end of the film, he is shown to be a famous scientist, entrepreneur and business magnate who also teaches young children when he takes a break from researching.
    • John Harris as young Rick
  • William George Hoang as Tống Chiến Minh – the film's narrator and a friend of Fred and Vashyron. His father wanted him to be an engineer despite his lack of interest in the career. Instead, he becomes an accomplished wildlife photographer.
  • Emrick Brennan as Vashyron Colingsworth. He comes from an impoverished Lucian family with a mother who is a retired school teacher and a paralyzed father who had been a postman. In the flashback story, his family is poor so they can't afford the car that would be demanded as a dowry for his sister. In the present story, he is married to Alicia Henderson with 3 children and is a entrepreneurship managing one of Austrakiba's famous coffee shops.
  • Akino Terai as Kaoru Minazawa. An Lucian-Aomorinese student in the Kontin Institute of Technology, She is the daughter of Prof. Mallory "Malaria" Minazawa. She is an intelligent, capable doctor and sometimes childish and playful. Fred is her love interest, and she breaks off her engagement to another to be with Fred. She brags about not wanting to change her last name after she marries Fred, who turns out to be Derrick Mallory. Saying that "Kaoru Mallory" doesn't sound good.
  • Tarou Dalton as Prof. Mallory Minazawa - better known as "Malaria", he is the strict college director. He is also Kaoru's father, and the film's "antagonist". By the end of the movie, he has changed his doctrinal method of teaching.
  • Đoàn Khán Dũng as Hai Manh Canh - better known as "Silencer" A Tamau-born Quenminese who is the opposite of Fred, Chiến Minh and Vashyron. Manh Canh is depicted as having a mere inability to speak Quenminese due to two factors; being born in Tamau and having completed basic education in the countryside. He believes in mindless memorisation. and sneers at Fred's distinctive ideas, as does Malaria. In the present story, he is vice-president of an Quenminese company who only discovers his success being overshadowed by Fred in the end of the film.
  • Thạch Đình Tắc as Lục Viên Ích - Better known as "Millimiter/Centimeter", a young man who earns a small living in the college such as helping students by ironing their clothes, finishing assignments, and getting groceries; Fred persuades him to buy a school uniform and go to any school to gain knowledge. Later, He becomes known as Centimeter who works as Fred's/Derrick's assistant in Kontin.
  • Klankain Auchinleck IV as the real Frederick "Fred" Paddock – a person Vashyron, Chiến Minh and Manh Canh meet during the Theodore Paddock funeral service. His character is shown to be a corrupt person right from childhood, taking benefits from 'Fred' in his homework and his exams. His father sends him to Insomnia and he sends 'Fred' to the Kontin Institute of Technology to gain an engineering degree in his name. He does appreciate what Fred did for him, giving Vashyron and Chiến Minh information on where to find him.
  • Claire Rieveldt as Alicia Henderson-Colingsworth, college sweetheart and later, wife of Vashyron.
  • Sean Trinh as Tống Chiến Quang - Chiến Minh's father, a strict but loving parent who just wants his son to be happy.
  • Trevor Nguyen as Kiếu Chính Lịch - a materialistic man who is Kaoru's ex-fiance.
  • Chử Tấn Quang as Phạm Thịnh Sáng - a student with a passion for machines. After Malaria tells him that he will not graduate, he commits suicide.

Production

The film was shot within the vicinity of the Kontin Institute of Technology.