Wong Kar-wai
Gender: Male
Born: 17th July 1958 (currently 53 years old)
Nationality: China
Movies: 2046, As Tears Go By, Ashes of Time, Ashes of Time Redux, Chungking Express, Days of Being Wild, Eros, Fallen Angels, Happy Together, Hua Yang De Nian Hua, In the Mood for Love, My Blueberry Nights, Six Days, The Grandmasters, The Hire: The Follow, The Lady from Shanghai, There’s Only One Sun, To Each His Own Cinema, Wkw/tk/1996@7'55"hk.net
Wong Kar-wai BBS (born 17 July 1958) is a Hong Kong Second Wave filmmaker, internationally renowned as an auteur for his visually unique, highly stylised, emotionally resonant work, including Days of Being Wild (1990), Ashes of Time (1994), Chungking Express (1994), Fallen Angels (1995), Happy Together (1997) and 2046 (2004). His film In the Mood for Love (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.
Wong was listed at number three on the British Film Institute's Sight & Sound Top Ten Directors list of modern times.
Born in Shanghai, he moved to Hong Kong with his parents at the age of five. Coming from the Mainland and speaking only Mandarin and Shanghainese, he spent hours in cinemas with his mother. After graduating from Hong Kong Polytechnic College in graphic design in 1980, he enrolled in the Production Training Course organised by Hong Kong Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) and became a full-time television screenwriter. In
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