triad culture

His films obsessively explore romantic and violent triangular relationships, most notably in 'In the Mood for Love' and 'Chungking Express,' where desire circulates between three or more characters.

His masterpiece 'Jules and Jim' is the quintessential cinematic meditation on a three-way love affair and its psychological and emotional complexities across decades.

His slow-cinema works frequently feature triangular family dynamics and relationships, exploring alienation and desire within closed spaces and emotional structures of three.