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Wong Kar-wai BBS (born 17 July 1958) is a Hong Kong film director, screenwriter, and producer. His films are characterised by nonlinear narratives , atmospheric music, and vivid cinematography involving bold, saturated colours.
- Wong Kar-wai Filmography
Wong Kar-wai (born 17 July 1958) is a Hong Kong film...
- Chungking Express
Chungking Express is a 1994 Hong Kong arthouse romantic...
- In The Mood for Love
In the Mood for Love (Chinese: 花樣年華; lit. 'Flowery Years')...
- Fallen Angels
Fallen Angels is a 1995 Hong Kong neo-noir crime...
- Happy Together
Happy Together (Chinese: 春光乍洩) is a 1997 Hong Kong romantic...
- The Grandmaster
The Grandmaster ( simplified Chinese: 一代宗师; traditional...
- My Blueberry Nights
My Blueberry Nights is a 2007 romantic drama film directed...
- Wong Kar-wai Filmography
May 6, 2024 · Wong Kar-Wai (born July 17, 1958, Shanghai, China) is a Chinese film director noted for his atmospheric films about memory, longing, and the passage of time. Wong’s family emigrated from Shanghai to Hong Kong in 1963. For many Shanghainese, assimilation of Hong Kong’s different dialect and culture was difficult.
Director: The Grandmaster. Wong Kar-wai (born 17 July 1956) is a Hong Kong Second Wave filmmaker, internationally renowned as an auteur for his visually unique, highly stylised, emotionally resonant work, including Ah fei zing zyun (1990), Dung che sai duk (1994), Chung Hing sam lam (1994), Do lok tin si (1995), Chun gwong cha sit (1997), 2046 ...
- Director, Producer, Writer
- July 17, 1956
- 3 min
- Guerrilla Filmmaking
- The Poetry of Everyday Life
- History and Intimacy
Wong’s fourth film, Chunking Express(1994) brought him to the attention of Western audiences. Set in the infamous Chunking Mansions, a crowded 17-floor residential and shopping complex in Kowloon, the film introduced cinephiles to Wong’s universe of love-lorn romantics obsessing over the possibilities of what might have been. A voiceover by one of ...
What has given Wong such a devotional following across the globe is the way he inexorably returns to the poetry of everyday life and the theme of heartbreak. Whether this is the tortured romance between two men stranded in Buenos Aires in Happy Together (1997) or the unconsummated love affair of In The Mood For Love and its sequel, 2046(2004), Wong...
By capturing the fleeting and the ephemeral, Wong’s films act as a powerful form of cultural memory. This is most obvious in the nostalgic ambience of In the Mood For Love, set in the 1960s, where he had the entire crew eating Shanghainese food popular in 1960s Hong Kong and oversaw the meticulous design of the iconic cheongsam dresses worn by Magg...
Sep 1, 2023 · Touchstones. Wong Kar Wai’s “In the. Mood for. Love” Wong Kar Wai’s 2000 masterwork has influenced filmmakers ranging from Barry Jenkins to Sofia Coppola—and innumerable teens on...
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