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Mar 24, 2021 · Here are all of Wong Kar Wai’s films, ranked from worst to best. “You can’t blame the blueberry pie, just… no one wants it.” Image Credit: Sony Pictures Classics
- Days of Being Wild (1991) While As Tears Go By is his first film, Days of Being Wild is the first time the real Wong Kar Wai stood up.
- 2046 (2004) In spite of the fact that it is connected to the stories of two other films (Days of Being Wild and In the Mood for Love – to which it is a virtual sequel), 2046 remains an anomaly in Wong’s body of work.
- As Tears Go By (1988) As Tears Go By was Wong Kar Wai’s smash debut, rising out of the invention and wizardry of Hong Kong’s vibrant film scene in the 80s.
- Ashes of Time (1994/2008) From his body of work, it’s clear that the themes of desire and the sensuality of violence are deeply intertwined for Wong, but somehow he has always struggled with fully realizing aspects of that vision.
- My Blueberry Nights - 46%
- The Grandmaster - 78%
- Ashes of Time Redux - 78%
- Happy Together - 79%
- As Tears Go by - 82%
- 2046 - 86%
- Chungking Express - 87%
- Days of Being Wild - 90%
- In The Mood For Love - 90%
- Fallen Angels - 95%
There aren't many Wong Kar-wai films that received the "rotten" critical score in Rotten Tomatoes. There are actually only two and this is one of them, My Blueberry Nights. Despite the low critical appeal, it's still a decent movie in the eyes of the masses. My Blueberry Nights is one woman's attempt to heal herself after a painful break-up with he...
The Grandmaster is one of Wong Kar-wai's latest movies (2013) and its artistic recreation of Ip Man's peak as a martial arts master, Bruce Lee's famous teacher. That guy's had several films about him already but what sets The Grandmaster apart is Wong Kar-wai's artistic touch and how he adds more cinematic flair to Ip-Man's story. RELATED: 10 Movie...
Ashes of Time Redux is another action movie directed by Wong Kar-wai and yet again stars Tony Leung as one of the lead actors. This time around, the story is about several storylines of established heroes in Chinese literature, namely the wuxia novel The Legend of the Condor Heroes. The film reimagines them in their younger selves and that's where ...
Happy Together is an important milestone film in Wong Kar-wai's portfolio as it's one of the few he has about LGBT relationships. In this case, it's between a male gay couple from Hong Kong who moves to Argentina. Tony Leung plays Lai and Leslie Cheung stars a Ho as they navigate their new home while trying to survive their toxic relationship. RELA...
Before John Wick introduced the concept of a hardened criminal leaving his organization for love, there was As Tears Go By released back in 1988. It explores the forbidden love between a Hong Kong triad gang member and his distant relative where he decided to leave behind his dangerous life to pursue that relationship. Of course, trouble and his pa...
It's not often that a sci-fi backdrop is used as a stage for a forbidden romance but when it does happen, Wong Kar-wai shows how to do it properly. 2046 is as unique as romance movies go. It's about a modern-day writer fueling his unfinished sci-fi novel by jumping from bed to bed with different women. RELATED: 10 Best Asian Horror Movies On Shudde...
That Wong Kar-wai film that Quentin Tarantino liked so much that he distributed it to the Western audience? Chunking Express. It's one of Wong Kar-wai's earliest films too and follows an unconventional storytelling method which, in 1994, was rare for a romance movie. It tells the tale of two cops, one is suffering from a recent heartbreak while the...
Speaking of wild rides, Days of Being Wild chronicles multiple love stories quite similar to that in Chungking Express. Structurally, it's a two-part movie where the first romance tale is that of a broken-hearted young woman who manages to find solace in the arms of a more mature and caring man but their love never manifests. RELATED: 10 Asian Horr...
In the Mood for Love is one of Wong Kar-wai's most studied films due to how tragic and lovely it is at the same time. It's a love story but it also isn't as two married individuals discover that their respective spouses are having an affair, possibly even with each other. So, Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung) and Mrs. Chan (Maggie Cheung), being aggrieved s...
Fallen Angels currently stands as Wong Kar-wai's highest-rated non-certified fresh movie on Rotten Tomatoes and it's easy to see why. combines several genres including action, drama, and romance seamlessly as it follows the story of an assassin, his boss, a businessman, and two women. Their paths all cross together since it seems that their love li...
- In The Mood For Love (2001) ‘Chungking Express’ peeks at contemporary Hong Kong with frantic gusto, whereas ‘In The Mood…’ looks at it through the eyes of two woebegone protagonists, whose melancholy tale of unrequited love doesn’t even need subtitles to get across.
- Chungking Express (1994) Like ‘Fallen Angels’ which came after it, ‘Chungking Express’ consists of two stories told in sequence and is more of a love letter to Hong Kong than a conventional romance.
- 2046 (2004) A lonely author writes stories about a train which leaves for 2046, a place where people went to recapture their lost memories. But no one has ever come back from the place, except the writer himself.
- Days of Being Wild (1990) Set in 1960s Hong Kong (his favorite era), ‘Days Of Being Wild’ is brooding mood piece about how one self-destructive person can affect the lives of those around him.
Oct 22, 2021 · Published: October 21, 2021 11:29pm EDT. The influence of Hong Kong director Wong Kar Wai on global cinema is difficult to overstate. Wong emerged from the creative ferment of the Hong Kong...
Mar 23, 2021 · Set in the frenetic Hong Kong of fast-food stalls and convenience stores, this joyously inventive diptych tells the loosely linked stories of two lovelorn young cops (goofy Takeshi Kaneshiro and sad-eyed Tony Leung), each of whom gets involved with an elusive woman (Brigitte Lin Ching Hsia’s blond-wigged drug dealer and Faye Wong’s snack ...
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Nov 3, 2014 · In the Mood for Love is the quintessential Wong Kar-Wai movie. It showcases everything that makes Wong Kar-Wai great. Those things are his great sensitivity to human nature, his cinematographer, and his cast of top level talent. It’s my recommendation as a type of “chicken soup for your soul.”
