“3 Iron,” which takes its name from the golf club, fuses wife abuse, romance, determination and fantasy into a breathtakingly beautiful and sensual drama. A drifter named Tae-suk, played by the sensuous-looking Jae Hee, has a method. He fastens fliers onto doors and when he returns a day or so later and still sees them untouched, he assumes the house is empty and breaks in. But he isn’t a thief. He just enjoys staying in the surroundings, and even tidies up and fixes whatever he may find broken.

On one such expedition he notices a woman, Sun-hwa, portrayed by the exquisite Lee Seung-yeon, who is peeking at him. She doesn’t panic or report him. She is fascinated by him, a sensitive young man standing in contrast to her brute of a husband who beats her. The romance that blossoms between them is a tender, silent one with virtually nothing spoken between them. Their expressions tell of their emotions. When Sun-hwa rides off with him on the back of his motorcycle, the story also takes flight.

This is also the point at which a viewer can begin contemplating how much is real and how much is fantasy. As the tale develops, we get a moving and entertaining portrait of the couple, yet some upsetting things happen on their romantic journey. Sun-hwa’s husband is out for vengeance and the police are searching. Tae-suk has his spiritual way of coping. Yes, with a film named after a golf club, you might expect violence. But affection symbolically triumphs, and the film is topped with the best, imaginative ending I have seen in a long time, one that expresses feminism in a most unusual manner.