Cast

	Leslie Cheung	Ho Po-wing
	Tony Leung Chiu Wai	Lai Yiu-fai
	Chen Chang	Chang
	Gregory Dayton	Lover
	Shirley Kwan	Fai's Girlfriend

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Director	Kar Wai Wong
Writer	Manuel Puig, Kar Wai Wong
Producer	Raúl Ahumada, Ye-cheng Chan, Joseph Chi, T.J. Chung, Jacky Yee Wah Pang, Enrique Pavón Pereyra, Hiroko Shincharo, Christophe Tseng, Kar Wai Wong, Eliseo Zanusso, Marcelo Zanusso
Musician	Danny CHUNG
Photography	Christopher Doyle

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Part of the World of Wong Kar Wai collection

With his lush and sensual visuals, pitch-perfect soundtracks, and soulful romanticism, Wong Kar Wai has established himself as one of the defining auteurs of contemporary cinema. Joined by such key collaborators as cinematographer Christopher Doyle; editor and production and costume designer William Chang Suk Ping; and actors Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Maggie Cheung Man Yuk, Wong (or WKW, as he is often known) has written and directed films that have enraptured audiences and critics worldwide and inspired countless other filmmakers with their poetic moods and music, narrative and stylistic daring, and potent themes of alienation and memory. Whether tragically romantic, soaked in blood, or quirkily comedic, the seven films collected here are an invitation into the unique and wistful world of a deeply influential artist.


Happy Together
One of the most searing romances of the 1990s, Wong Kar Wai’s emotionally raw, lushly stylized portrait of a relationship in breakdown casts Hong Kong superstars Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Leslie Cheung Kwok Wing as a couple traveling through Argentina and locked in a turbulent cycle of infatuation and destructive jealousy as they break up, make up, and fall apart again and again. Setting out to depict the dynamics of a queer relationship with empathy and complexity on the cusp of the 1997 handover of Hong Kong-when the country’s LGBTQ community suddenly faced an uncertain future-Wong crafts a feverish look at the life cycle of a love affair that is by turns devastating and deliriously romantic. Shot by ace cinematographer Christopher Doyle in both luminous monochrome and luscious saturated color, Happy Together is an intoxicating exploration of displacement and desire that swoons with the ache and exhilaration of love at its heart-tearing extremes.

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