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Wong Kar-wai (born 17 July 1958) is a Hong Kong film director, screenwriter and producer. He began his career as a screenwriter in 1982, then made his directoral debut in 1988. As of 2019, he has directed 10 feature films. He has also worked as producer on several films he did not direct.
- My Blueberry Nights
- Ashes of Time 東邪西毒
- As Tears Go by 旺角卡門
- The Grandmaster 一代宗師
- Days of Being Wild 阿飛正傳
- Fallen Angels 墮落天使
- Chungking Express 重慶森林
- Happy Together 春光乍洩
- 2046
- In The Mood For Love 花樣年華
Shocking no one, My Blueberry Nights sits in last place. Wong's first English-language feature still has all of his hallmarks, but too many things get lost in translation. Unfortunately, it's too familiar, from the star-crossed lovers Elizabeth (Norah Jones) and Jeremy (Jude Law) to the pensive and thoughtful narration, it just doesn't offer anythi...
Based on the Wuxia novel The Legend of the Condor Heroes, Ashes of Time is actually quite a sharp divergence from Wong's style, something he had established four years prior with Days of Being Wild and reinforced in 1994 with Chungking Express. Ashes brings in all of Wong's familiar faces to participate in this period piece, but where it fell flat ...
It might shock some to see Wong's directorial debut so low, but Wong was just discovering his style in As Tears Go By, and the film's crime bend was clearly connected to the boom of crime films by fellow directors like John Woo. While Andy Lau, Jacky Cheung, and Maggie Cheung give strong performances, the plot is nothing to write home about. HK gan...
Wong's most recent feature is only number 7 because so many of his films are veritable classics. For any other director, this film might top the charts. Disguised as a historical martial arts film about real-life kung fu legend Ip Man (known, among other things, for training a young Bruce Lee), The Grandmaster is actually a philosophical movie, one...
At some point, in the making of this list, Days of Being Wild was much higher. But it's basically impossible to rank these movies after this point (I was clearly already struggling with The Grandmaster). This is lower on the list simply because, as far as stories go, this is one of the less memorable. We follow Leslie Cheung's Yuddy, a young man wh...
In a perfect world, Fallen Angels and Chungking Express share the same rank, especially since the two films are meant as companion pieces. But, Faye Wong's performance in Chungking pushes it just that much into spot number 4. But Fallen Angels demonstrates all the quirkiness and allure of what makes Wong's films great. Split into two stories, the f...
The yang to Fallen Angels' yin, Chungking Express is probably best known for its second story featuring Faye Wong and Tony Leung Chiu-Wai. Somewhere during the filming of this movie, Leung began to perfect his charismatic winsome smile, his deep longing stare, and that specific joie de vivre that he became so well known for in his films with Wong. ...
After much deliberation, Happy Together is number 3. While it originally held the number 2 spot, my personal connection to 2046 won over any unbiased defenses. As one of Wong's most chaotically romantic films, Happy Together follows the highs and lows of the relationship between Ho Po-Wing (Leslie Cheung) and Lai Yu-Fai (Tony Leung Chiu-Wai). Often...
Again, for me, 2046 and In the Mood for Love hold the same standing in my heart, though the latter wins out for the top spot for obvious reasons and because of how it changed upon rewatch. 2046came to me at a very pivotal point in my life. At the tender age of 14, when I was probably not supposed to watch this movie, my mom showed it to me, and it ...
Of course, In the Mood for Love takes the top spot. Not only because it is so often called one of the greatest films of all time, but because it is actually a rather unconventional Wong film that manages the restraint and subtlety that we don't often see in his other films. There are no gangsters or assassins, no androids or legendary warriors, jus...
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His film Fa yeung nin wa (2000), starring Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung, garnered widespread critical acclaim. Wong's films frequently feature protagonists who yearn for romance in the midst of a knowingly brief life and scenes that can often be described as sketchy, digressive, exhilarating, and containing vivid imagery.
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Kar-Wai Wong in The First Monday in May (2016)- Kar-Wai Wong in Ashes of Time (1994)
- Wong Kar-Wai on the set with co-cinematographer Christopher Doyle
- Kwok-Leung Gan with Wong Kar Wai (Best Director of Cannes Film Festival 1997).
- Kar-Wai Wong in 2046 (2004)
- Kar-Wai Wong in The Grandmaster (2013)
- Kar-Wai Wong
- William Chang, Philippe Le Sourd, and Kar-Wai Wong
- Martin Scorsese and Kar-Wai Wong
- Kar-Wai Wong at an event for Side Effects (2013)
Chungking Express. 1994 1h 42m PG-13. 8.0 (97K) Rate. 78 Metascore. Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious female underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal waitress at a late-night restaurant he frequents. Director Kar-Wai Wong Stars Brigitte Lin Takeshi Kaneshiro Tony Leung Chiu-wai. 4.
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.
Even if all it had to offer were writer-director Wong Kar-wai's thrillingly distinctive visuals, Chungking Express would be well worth watching; happily, its thoughtfully drawn characters and naturalistic performances also pack a potent dramatic wallop.
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Find out the biography, filmography, and awards of Wong Kar-wai, a Hong Kong Second Wave filmmaker known for his visually unique, highly stylized films. Browse his movies from 1982 to 2023, including Chungking Express, In the Mood for Love, The Grandmaster, and more.
