7 Films · Collection

The Essential Wong Kar-wai

From Hong Kong's neon backstreets to 1960s exile - the cinema of memory, longing, and the love that just missed.

In the Mood for Love

2000 Wong Kar-Wai

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Two neighbors in 1960s Hong Kong discover their spouses are having an affair, and fall into a love they never let themselves act on.

Days of Being Wild

1990 Wong Kar-Wai

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Leslie Cheung plays a Hong Kong playboy chasing his birth mother, in Wong's first film with cinematographer Christopher Doyle.

Chungking Express

1994 Wong Kar-Wai

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Two lovesick Hong Kong cops, a woman in a blonde wig, and a snack bar set to 'California Dreamin'.

Fallen Angels

1995 Wong Kar-Wai

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A weary hitman and a mute drifter wander Wong's neon-soaked Hong Kong nights, born from a story cut out of Chungking Express.

Happy Together

1997 Wong Kar-Wai

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Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung play a couple breaking up and reuniting in Buenos Aires - the film that won Wong Best Director at Cannes.

2046

2004 Wong Kar-Wai

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Tony Leung's writer drifts through hotel rooms and a sci-fi reverie, the loose sequel to In the Mood for Love and Days of Being Wild.

The Grandmaster

2013 Wong Kar-Wai

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Tony Leung is Wing Chun master Ip Man, who would go on to train Bruce Lee, in Wong's rain-and-snow martial-arts epic.