Wong Kar-Wai Filmography

Born:: January 1, 1958 in Shanghai, China
Occupation:: Director, Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: While a product of the fertile Hong Kong filmmaking community of the '90s, writer/director Wong Kar-Wai did not traffic in the over-the-top action blowouts favored by the likes of John Woo and Tsui Hark. Instead, his films took their inspiration from the seminal work of Jean-Luc Godard and the...Read More

Sort By:
Title
Release Date

My Blueberry Nights

Crew: Director, Producer, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Jude Law, Norah Jones, Natalie Portman, Rachel Weisz, David Strathairn, Chan Marshall

Synopsis: Legendary filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai directs Jude Law, Natalie Portman, Rachel Weisz, and Norah Jones in his first English-language feature film -- a romantic road movie detailing the cross-country journey of a woman who sets off across the United States in hopes of mending her broken heart. Elizabeth Read More

4/4/08
Ashes of Time Redux

Crew: Director

Actors: Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung Kar-Fai, Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Maggie Cheung

2008
To Each His Own Cinema

Crew: Director

Synopsis: At the time of its production, To Each His Own Cinema represented the latest arrival in a tidal wave of internationally oriented omnibus films, with no official relation between them but all produced within a few years of one another. Few could claim a roster of talent comparable to this one Read More

2007
2046

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Gong Li, Takuya Kimura, Faye Wong, Zhang Ziyi

Synopsis: Hong Kong-based filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai moves back and forth in time as he reexamines and amplifies the themes from his film In the Mood for Love in this offbeat romantic drama. Opening in the year 2046, in which a man named Tak (Takuya Kimura) attempts to persuades wjw 1967 (Faye Wong) to travel Read More

8/5/05
Eros

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Gong Li, Chang Chen, Tin Fung, Robert Downey, Jr., Alan Arkin

Synopsis: Three of the world's most gifted filmmakers offer their own unique perspectives on love and lust in this omnibus film. The initial episode, "The Hand," was directed by Wong Kar-Wai, and tells the story of Zhang (Chang Chen), a young, virginal dressmaker's assistant who finds it difficult to Read More

4/8/05
Days of Being Wild

Crew: Director

Actors: Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Andy Lau

Synopsis: Following up on his debut As Tears Go By, master filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai directs this dark, brooding tale about identity and unrequited love. Set in 1960, the film center of the young, boyishly handsome Yuddy (Leslie Cheung), who learns from the drunken ex-prostitute who raised him that she is not Read More

11/19/04
Epreuves d'Artistes

Actors: Pedro Almodóvar, Robert Altman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Roberto Benigni, Bernardo Bertolucci

2004
Sound of Colors

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Miriam Yeung, Chang Chen, Dong Jie, Fan Jik-Wai

Synopsis: The budding romance between a girl blinded in a childhood accident and a dating agency owner who has inexplicably lost his own eyesight is contrasted against the tender relationship between a heartbroken young woman and the man who was mysteriously guided to her by forces he cannot comprehend in Read More

2004
Chinese Odyssey 2002

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Faye Wong, Vicki Zhao Wei, Chang Chen, Rebecca Pan

Synopsis: Chinese Odyssey 2002, produced by Wong Kar-Wai, is writer-director Jeff Lau's energetic parody of Chinese kung fu epics, with a bit of Shakespeare thrown in. Chang Chen (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) plays the Emperor, who, desperate for the free-spirited life of a wanderer, tries to escape from Read More

2002
In The Mood For Love

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Maggie Cheung, Lai Chin, Rebecca Pan

Synopsis: For his first film since the 1997 Hong Kong handover, auteur filmmaker Wong Kar-wai directs this moody period drama about unrequited love that, like his earlier work, swoons with romantic melancholy. Set in a Shanghaiese enclave in Hong Kong in 1962, the film centers on two young couples who rent Read More

2/2/01
The Follow

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A driver-for-hire (Clive Owen) is asked to spy on the wife (Adriana Lima) of an obsessively jealous husband (Mickey Rourke). The third of the five films in the BMW promotional series, The Follow was directed by Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai and written by Seven scriptwriter Andrew Kevin Walker. Read More

2001
Cho Chin Lun Hau Dik Yiyan Saigyai

Crew: Producer

Actors: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Eric Kot, Vincent Kok

Synopsis: Stand-up comedian Eric Kot directs and stars in this drama about love and artistic originality. Produced by auteur Wong Kar-wai, the film shares both a similar sumptuous look, thanks to Christopher Doyle's brilliant cinematography, and a familiar bifurcated narrative as that of the Hong Kong Read More

2000
Happy Together

Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Chang Chen

Synopsis: Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai directs the strange, intimate drama Cheun Gwong Tsa Sit (Happy Together). Australian cinematographer Christopher Doyle employed multiple film speeds and different color film stock during the shooting. Ho (Leslie Cheung) and Lai (Tony Leung) are lovers from Hong Read More

1997
Fallen Angels

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Leon Lai, Michelle Reis, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Charlie Yeung, Karen Mok

Synopsis: Wong Kar-wai's Fallen Angels is a sequel of sorts to the director's 1994 U.S. breakthrough Chungking Express. Expanding on the latter's style, themes, and mood, Fallen Angels is set in the surreal milieu of urban, nighttime Hong Kong. As with the filmmaker's other features, plot takes a back seat Read More

1995
Chungking Express

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Faye Wong, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Valerie Chow

Synopsis: A Hong Kong fast food restaurant acts as the link between two unusual stories of police officers in love in this eccentric, stylish comedy-drama. Director Wong Kar-Wai plays freely with traditional narrative structure, dividing his film into two loosely connected segments. The first centers on a Read More

1994
Ashes of Time

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Brigitte Lin, Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Jacky Cheung

Synopsis: Master Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-wai directed this lyrical, dream-like martial arts epic. A famously troubled shoot, the film took two years and 40 million dollars to produce (a shocking sum for a national cinema populated with low-budget quickies) and features a virtual who's-who of the Hong Read More

1994
The Eagle Shooting Heroes: Dong Cheng Xi Jiu

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Leslie Cheung, Jacky Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

Synopsis: Jeff Lau Chun-wai spins this wild and woolly parody of Wong Kar-wai's martial arts epic Ashes of Time, which was actually produced by Wong himself and features many of the same cast members as Ashes. This loosely plotted film centers around the misdeeds of a pair of royals (Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Read More

1993
Return Engagement

Crew: Screenwriter

1990
As Tears Go By

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Andy Lau, Jacky Cheung, Maggie Cheung

Synopsis: Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar-wai makes his feature film debut with this gritty romantic crime-drama inspired by Scorsese's Mean Streets. The film opens with young gangster Wah (Andy Lau) getting a visit for the day from his beautiful cousin Ah-Ngor (Maggie Cheung), who is coming into Kowloon from the Read More

1988
The Haunted Cop Shop

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: A city is plagued by vampires, ghosts, and zombies that eat their living victims. A specially trained unit of government troops is sent to eliminate the creatures and are told to use whatever means necessary. This wild film tries to be a cross between Dawn of the Dead and Ghostbusters, but it Read More

1987
Final Victory

Crew: Screenwriter

1987
The Intellectual Trio

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Joyce Ngai, Sandy Lam, Billy Lau, Leslie Cheung

Synopsis: Guy Lai Ying-chau directs this romantic crime yarn about a pair of sibling thieves named Pretty Eyes (Joyce Ngai Suk-kwan) and Slanty Eyes (played by pop star Sandy Lam Yik-lin). When the two make the mistake of lightening the wallet of a mob assassin who just got paid for a hit, they find Read More

1985
Once Upon a Rainbow

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Eric Tsang

Synopsis: As Fong (Chu Kit, aka Hsu Sye), a successful television star goes back to spend some time at the center where she learned the acting profession, she thinks back to her friend Angie (Chong Jing Yee) who was blessed with a wealthy home, but suffered from neglect as her divorced father devoted Read More

1982