Screenplay: Wong Kar-Wai
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Wong Kar-Wai. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
In the Mood for Love
2000 · Movie · 95 min. · Hong Kong
Direction Wong Kar-Wai
Cast Tony Leung Chiu-Wai · Maggie Cheung · Rebecca Pan · Siu Ping-Lam
Plot Two couples meet and live in a building mainly inhabited by the Shanghai community. The husband of one couple, Chau, meets the beautiful wife of the second couple, Li-chun. As...
7.8
37K votes
7.8
37K votes
Chungking Express
1994 · Movie · 103 min. · Hong Kong
Direction Wong Kar-Wai
Cast Brigitte Lin · Takeshi Kaneshiro · Tony Leung Chiu-Wai · Faye Wong
Plot The loosely connected stories of a pair of Hong Kong cops who are dumped by their girlfriends. In the first segment, a young cop, known only by his badge number...
7.6
12K votes
7.6
12K votes
Happy Together
1997 · Movie · 98 min. · Hong Kong
Direction Wong Kar-Wai
Cast Leslie Cheung · Tony Leung Chiu-Wai · Gregory Dayton · Chang Chen
Plot Yiu-Fai and Po-Wing arrive in Argentina from Hong Kong and take to the road for a holiday. Something is wrong and their relationship goes adrift. A disillusioned Yiu-Fai starts working...
7.4
8K votes
7.4
8K votes
The Hand
2004 · Movie · 44 min. · Hong Kong
Direction Wong Kar-Wai
Cast Chang Chen · Gong Li · Tien Feng · Jianjun Zhou
Plot The Hand stars Gong Li as a 1960s high-end call girl in an impossible love affair with her tailor.
7.4
1K votes
7.4
1K votes
Fallen Angels
1995 · Movie · 92 min. · Hong Kong
Direction Wong Kar-Wai
Cast Leon Lai · Michelle Reis · Takeshi Kaneshiro · Charlie Yeung
Plot Wong Kar-wai's Fallen Angels is a sequel of sorts to the director's "Chungking Express". The narrative intercuts two story lines. The first follows a hitman who finds that the assassin's...
7.1
5K votes
7.1
5K votes
2046
2004 · Movie · 120 min. · Hong Kong
Direction Wong Kar-Wai
Cast Tony Leung Chiu-Wai · Zhang Ziyi · Faye Wong · Gong Li
Plot He was a writer. He thought he wrote about the future but it really was the past. In his novel, a mysterious train left for 2046 every once in a...
7.1
24K votes
7.1
24K votes
Days of Being Wild
1990 · Movie · 95 min. · Hong Kong
Direction Wong Kar-Wai
Cast Leslie Cheung · Andy Lau · Maggie Cheung · Carina Lau
Plot DAYS OF BEING WILD is the story of York (Leslie Cheung), a lady's man who finds girlfriends very quickly and then terminates the relationship without warning. Needless to say, this...
7.0
3K votes
7.0
3K votes
My Blueberry Nights
2007 · Movie · 90 min. · Hong Kong
Direction Wong Kar-Wai
Cast Norah Jones · Jude Law · Natalie Portman · Rachel Weisz
Plot A young woman (Norah Jones) takes a soul-searching journey across America to resolve her questions about love while encountering a series of offbeat characters along the way. In Wong Kar...
6.6
24K votes
6.6
24K votes
As Tears Go By
1988 · Movie · 105 min. · Hong Kong
Direction Wong Kar-Wai
Cast Andy Lau · Maggie Cheung · Alex Man · Jacky Cheung
Plot A low-level triad "big brother" has a hot-tempered "little brother" who can't keep out of trouble, and consequently is in constant need of being bailed out by his protector. The...
6.5
2K votes
6.5
2K votes
To Each His Cinema
2007 · Movie · 111 min. · France
Direction Theodoros Angelopoulos · Olivier Assayas · Bille August · Jane Campion
Cast Cindy Beckett · Audrey Dana · Jacques Frantz · George Babluani
Plot To Each His Cinema is a 2007 film, produced and conceived by Gilles Jacob, celebrating the Cannes Film Festival's 60th anniversary. The film is comprised of a collection of 35...
6.2
1K votes
6.2
1K votes
Ashes of Time
1994 · Movie · 87 min. · Hong Kong
Direction Wong Kar-Wai
Cast Leslie Cheung · Tony Leung Ka-Fai · Brigitte Lin · Tony Leung Chiu-Wai
Plot 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...
6.0
2K votes
6.0
2K votes
The Grandmaster
2013 · Movie · 130 min. · Hong Kong
Direction Wong Kar-Wai
Cast Tony Leung Chiu-Wai · Zhang Ziyi · Zhao Benshan · Chang Chen
Plot The story of martial-arts and the soul of China civilization. Two kung fu masters —Ip Man (Tony Leung), the man who trained Bruce Lee, and Gong Er (Zhang Ziyi), who...
6.0
6K votes
6.0
6K votes
Eros
2004 · Movie · 104 min. · Hong Kong
Direction Wong Kar-Wai · Steven Soderbergh · Michelangelo Antonioni
Cast Gong Li · Chang Chen · Robert Downey Jr. · Alan Arkin
Plot Wong Kar wai’s "Shou" (The Hand) is the story of a young tailor’s long-unrequired love for a beautiful Hong Kong courtesan. Over many years, he lovingly crafts the clothes she...
5.9
2K votes
5.9
2K votes
There's Only One Sun (S)
2007 · Movie · 10 min. · Hong Kong
Direction Wong Kar-Wai
Cast Amélie Daure · Gianpaolo Lupori · Stefan Morawietz
Plot There's Only One Sun is a 2007 short film/long forum advertisement for Philips Aurea a new LCD technology for their televishon it was written and directed by Wong Kar-Wai. PLOT:...
5.8
589 votes
5.8
589 votes
Flaming Brothers
1987 · Movie · 98 min. · Hong Kong
Direction Joe Cheung
Cast Chow Yun-Fat · Alan Tang · Pat Ha · Maria Chan
Plot A tale between two brothers. One has left the triads and gone legit. The other has decided to stay and keep the triad from going to the ways of drugs...
5.4
151 votes
5.4
151 votes
Déjà vu (S)
2012 · Movie · 3 min. · Hong Kong
Direction Wong Kar-Wai
Cast Chang Chen · Du Juan
Plot Chivas Regal has announced that they will unveil "Dejavu," a new short film by the director starring Wong Kar-Wai regular Chang Chen ("Happy Together," "Eros," "2046," "The Grandmasters") and model/actress...
4.9
428 votes
4.9
428 votes
wkw/tk/1996@7'55"hk.net (S)
1996 · Movie · 8 min. · Japan
Direction Wong Kar-Wai
Cast Tadanobu Asano · Karen Mok
Plot wkw/tk/1996@7'55"hk.net is a 1996 commercial short film by Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai that he made for Japanese fashion designer Takeo Kikuchi. The title contains the initials of Wong Kar-wai...
4.7
142 votes
4.7
142 votes
Midnight Poison (S)
2007 · Movie · 1 min. · France
Direction Wong Kar-Wai
Cast Eva Green
Plot An advertisement for Midnight Poison Perfume by Christian Dior.
4.5
189 votes
4.5
189 votes
La rencontre (S)
2002 · Movie · 1 min. · Hong Kong
Direction Wong Kar-Wai
Cast Chang Chen · Diane de MacMahon
4.5
25 votes
4.5
25 votes
Motorola (S)
1998 · Movie · 3 min. · Hong Kong
Direction Wong Kar-Wai
Cast Tadanobu Asano · Faye Wong
Plot Given a completely free hand by Motorola mobile phones, Wong created an advertisement that is a romantic-but-fraught vignette from the sex-wars.
4.3
40 votes
4.3
40 votes