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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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

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