WONG KAR WAI

In his sole cinematic journey outside his country's borders to date, the wonderful Wong Kar-wai discovers his own America, mapping in his unique way beautiful emotional landscapes of loneliness and mood for love. — After a breakup, a young woman embarks on a solitary journey of search and self-discovery in America, meeting unique and strangely fascinating people who will change her beliefs and character forever. — Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 2007

A rainy poem of martial arts and color shades in the hands of the unsurpassed Wong Kar-wai. Starring his regular partner, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, in delightful kung fu battles with Zhang Ziyi. — Ip Man, the great Kung Fu Master, was born in 1893 in Foshan, China. His early education began at age 7 and, while still young, he fought the best warriors, defeating them all. His life was tragically transformed when, during the Japanese invasion and subsequent civil war, he was forced to go to exile, leaving his beloved family behind. In Hong Kong, Ip Man began a successful career as a martial arts teacher, with Bruce Lee as his most famous student. — Nominated for Best Achievement in Cinematography | Oscars | 2014 Nominated for Best Achievement in Costume Design | Oscars | 2014

"At our closest point, we were just 0.01 centimeters away from each other." Wong Kar Wai delivers a filmic nuclear bomb of emotion about lost love, memory, loss, and the places where we move in our cities. With Tony Leung, Faye Wong and "California Dreaming". — Every day, officer 223 buys a can of pineapple with the expiration date May 1st, symbolizing the day he will finally get over his lost love. At the same time he cannot take his eyes off a mysterious woman with a blonde wig, not knowing that she is a drug dealer. Officer 663 is consumed by grief because of a break up. But when his ex leaves a set of keys for his apartment in a neighbouring café, a waitress will use them to enter his house and brighten up his life. — Official Selection | Locarno International Film Festival | 1994 Best Picture | Hong Kong Film Awards | 1995 Best Director | Hong Kong Film Awards | 1995 Best Actor (Tony Leung) | Hong Kong Film Awards | 1995 Best Actress (Faye Wong) | Stockholm Film Festival | 1994

Wong Kar Wai delivers a spirited sequel to the unparalleled “Chungking Express”. Professional and personal relationships get intertwined unexpectedly, in a riveting highly-stylized adventure drama set against the backdrop of Hong Kong's urban nightscape. — A frustrated hitman must first overcome his feelings for his colleague before he embarks on his last job. Considering it dangerous and inappropriate to engage with a partner, he seeks a substitute. Lost in the sordid and surreal urban nightscape of modern-day Hong Kong, he will meet two unique characters one of which is a woman in pursuit of her mysterious ex. — Best Supporting Actress (Karen Mok) | Hong Kong Film Awards | 1996 Best Cinematography | Hong Kong Film Awards | 1996 Best Original Film Score | Hong Kong Film Awards | 1996

A moody journey full of tension, love and hate in constant succession, portrayed in absolute aesthetic freedom and a frenzied camera lens, in yet another stylistic marvel by Wong Kar Wai that touches upon the unpredictability of life. — A gay couple goes to Argentina on vacation. At some point in their trip they break up. Not having the necessary money to return home, one of them starts working as a doorman at a bar while staying in a small room. One day his ex-partner, who spends his nights out with various people, visits him injured and bloody. While taking care of him, he loses his job but manages to get another one as a dish-washer at a Chinese restaurant. There he meets a young man from Taipei who is traveling the world. — Best Director | Cannes Film Festival | 1997 Audience Award | Arizona International Film Festival | 1998 Best Actor | Hong Kong Film Awards | 1998

A lot of people swear to this day that this is the most beautiful film ever created and 4K restoration catapults this beauty to the moon. A hallmark of Wong Kar Wai's career, with shots, colours, music and slow motion coming together in a celebration of the senses. — Chow, editor-in-chief of a newspaper, moves with his wife to a new house. There he meets Li-zhen, the beautiful woman living next door, wife of a commercial agent, who is usually on business trips. Chow's wife is also often away from home. One day they will realize that their spouses are lovers and will find themselves in the footsteps of an erotic desire that neither of them admits is their own. — Best Actor (Tony Leung) | Cannes Film Festival | 2000 Best Foreign Language Film | César Awards | 2001 Best Actor (Tony Leung) | Hong Kong Film Awards | 2001 Best Actress (Maggie Cheung) | Hong Kong Film Awards | 2001 Best Film Editing | Hong Kong Film Awards | 2001

In his most soulful and ambitious moment, Wong Kar Wai dives into the science fiction of memories of an elusive past, climaxing his obsessions with the (legendary) aesthetic perfection of his images. — An author is writing a book about 2046, a place where people travel on board a mysterious train, in search of their lost memories. As he plunges into his writing, the boundaries between the past and the future, his own life and fiction, dreams and memory, become blurred and indistinct. — Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 2004 Best Actor (Tony Leung) | Hong Kong Film Awards | 2005 Best Actress (Ziyi Zhang) | Hong Kong Film Awards | 2005 Best Cinematography | Hong Kong Film Awards | 2005 Best Art Direction | Hong Kong Film Awards | 2005 Best Original Film Score | Hong Kong Film Awards | 2005

Before "In the Mood for Love" and "2046", Wong Kar-Wai’s second feature brings his signature themes of time, desire, and distance to the forefront in an intoxicating blend of noir and romance. It also marks the director’s first collaboration with the incomparable cinematographer Christopher Doyle. — In 1960s Hong Kong, a group of unruly young adults come together and drift apart in a slow-burning dance of suppressed desire. A disillusioned playboy who seduces and abandons women without remorse is searching for his biological mother. One woman is desperately in love with him. A police officer finds himself caught in the middle of their troubled relationship. What follows is a chain of events driven by obsession, self-discovery, and shocking violence. — Best Picture | Hong Kong Film Awards | 1991 Best Director | Hong Kong Film Awards | 1991 Best Actor (Leslie Cheung) | Hong Kong Film Awards | 1991

In his electrifying directorial debut, Wong Kar-Wai fuses the grit of Hong Kong crime thrillers with the romanticism that would later become his signature. Starring Andy Lau and Maggie Cheung, in the first of their iconic collaborations with the director. — In the ruthless, neon-lit underworld of Hong Kong’s gangster scene, a small-time crook is torn between a blossoming romance with his beautiful, ailing cousin and his loyalty to a dangerous partner in crime, whose reckless attempts to make a name for himself unleash a wave of violence.