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Wong Kar-wai

Wong Kar-wai

Hong Kong screenwriter, film producer and film director
July 17, 1958 (65 years old)

The Grandmaster

V.O.: Yidai zongshi
H.-K. 2012. Biography by Wong Kar-wai with Tony Leung, Zhang Ziyi, Chang Chen. From the 1930s to the 1950s, the story of Ip Man, the great kung fu master and mentor of Bruce Lee.
Runtime: 108 min.

Ashes of Time Redux

V.O.: Dung che sai duk
H.-K. 2008. Martial arts by Wong Kar-wai with Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Brigitte Lin. Rejected by the woman he loved, an innkeeper living alone in the desert hires hitmen trained in martial arts to support him.
Runtime: 93 min.
H.-K. 2007. Sentimental drama by Wong Kar-wai with Norah Jones, Jude Law, Natalie Portman. A young woman in search of love leaves New York to become a waitress in Tennessee and then in Nevada.
Runtime: 94 min.
Chin. 2004. Sentimental drama by Wong Kar-wai with Tony Leung, Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li. Back in Hong Kong in 1966, an ex-journalist writing a science fiction novel is haunted by a lost love.
Runtime: 129 min.
U.S. 2004. Sketches by Wong Kar-wai, Steven Soderbergh, Michelangelo Antonioni with Gong Li, Robert Downey Jr., Christopher Buchholz. Variations on the themes of desire and eroticism by three masters of cinema.

In the Mood For Love

V.O.: Hua yang nianhua
H.-K. 2000. Sentimental drama by Wong Kar-wai with Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung, Rebecca Pan. After discovering that each of their husbands is having an affair, a journalist and a secretary feel attracted to each other.
Runtime: 98 min.

Happy Together

V.O.: Cheun gwong tsa sit
H.-K. 1997. Psychological drama by Wong Kar-wai with Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung, Chang Chen. After a painful breakup, two young gay men from Hong Kong immigrate to Buenos Aires to start living together again.
Runtime: 96 min.

Fallen Angels

V.O.: Duoluo tianshi
H.-K. 1995. Mores drama by Wong Kar-wai with Leon Lai Ming, Michele Reis, Takeshi Kaneshiro.

Ashes of Time

V.O.: Dung che sai duk
Runtime: 90 min.

Chungking Express

V.O.: Chunghing Samlam
H.-K. 1994. Dramatic comedy by Wong Kar-wai with Tony Leung, Faye Wang, Takeshi Kaneshiro.
Runtime: 102 min.

Days of Being Wild

V.O.: Ah Fei jing juen
H.-K. 1990. Drama by Wong Kar-wai with Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Andy Lau.
Runtime: 100 min.

As Tears Go By

V.O.: Wang Jiao ka men
H.-K. 1988. Drama by Wong Kar-wai with Andy Lau, Maggie Cheung, Jacky Cheung.
Runtime: 102 min.

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