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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 the limits of control editor and production and costume designer william chang suk ping shadowboxer and actors tony leung chiu wai lust, caution and maggie cheung man yuk irma vep, 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 they're 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.as tears go bywong kar wai's scintillating debut feature is a kinetic, hypercool crime thriller graced with flashes of the impressionistic, daydream visual style for which he would become renowned'. '.strtoupper('s')et amid hong kong's ruthless, neon lit gangland underworld, this operatic saga of ambition, honor, and revenge stars andy lau tak wah as a small time mob enforcer who finds himself torn between a burgeoning romance with his ailing cousin maggie cheung man yuk, in the first of her iconic collaborations with the director and his loyalty to his loose cannon partner in crime jacky cheung hok yau, whose reckless attempts to make a name for himself unleash a spiral of violence'. '.strtoupper('m')arrying the pulp pleasures of the gritty hong kong action drama with hints of the head rush romanticism wong would push to intoxicating heights throughout the 1990s, as tears go by was a box office smash that heralded the arrival of one of contemporary cinema's most electrifying talents.days of being wildthe breakthrough sophomore feature by wong kar wai represents the first full flowering of his swooning signature style'. '.strtoupper('t')he initial entry in a loosely connected, ongoing cycle that includes in the mood for love and 2046, this ravishing existential reverie is a dreamlike drift through the hong kong of the 1960s in which a band of wayward twentysomethings including a disaffected playboy leslie cheung kwok wing searching for his birth mother, a lovelorn woman maggie cheung man yuk hopelessly enamored with him, and a policeman andy lau tak wah caught in the middle of their turbulent relationship pull together and push apart in a dance of frustrated desire'. '.strtoupper('t')he director's inaugural collaboration with both cinematographer christopher doyle, who lends the film its gorgeously gauzy, hallucinatory texture, and actor tony leung chiu wai, who appears briefly in a tantalizing teaser for a never realized sequel, days of being wild is an exhilarating first expression of wong's trademark themes of time, longing, dislocation, and the restless search for human connection.chungking expressthe whiplash, double pronged chungking express is one of the defining works of 1990s cinema and the film that made wong kar wai an instant icon'. '.strtoupper('t')wo heartsick hong kong cops takeshi kaneshiro and tony leung chiu wai, both jilted by ex lovers, cross paths at the midnight express take out food stand, where the ethereal pixie waitress faye faye wong works'. '.strtoupper('a')nything goes in wong's gloriously shot and utterly unexpected charmer, which cemented the sex appeal of its gorgeous stars and forever turned canned pineapple and the mamas the papas' california dreamin' into tokens of romantic longing.fallen angelslost souls reach out for human connection amid a glimmering hong kong in wong kar wai's hallucinatory, neon soaked nocturne'. '.strtoupper('o')riginally conceived as a segment of chungking express only to spin off on its own woozy axis, fallen angels plays like the dark, moody flip side of its predecessor as it charts the subtly interlacing fates of a handful of urban loners, including a coolly detached hit man leon lai ming looking to go straight his business partner michelle reis, who secretly yearns for him and a mute delinquent takeshi kaneshiro who wreaks mischief by night'. '.strtoupper('s')winging between hard boiled noir and slapstick lunacy with giddy abandon, the film is both a dizzying, dazzling city symphony and a poignant meditation on love, loss, and longing in a metropolis that never sleeps.happy togetherone 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'. '.strtoupper('s')etting 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'. '.strtoupper('s')hot 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.in the mood for lovehong kong, 1962 chow mo wan tony leung chiu wai and su li zhen maggie cheung man yuk move into neighboring apartments on the same day'. '.strtoupper('t')heir encounters are formal and polite until a discovery about their spouses creates an intimate bond between them'. '.strtoupper('a')t once delicately mannered and visually extravagant, wong kar wai's in the mood for love is a masterful evocation of romantic longing and fleeting moments'. '.strtoupper('w')ith its aching soundtrack and exquisitely abstract cinematography by christopher doyle and mark lee ping bing, this film has been a major stylistic influence on the past two decades of cinema and is a milestone in wong's redoubtable career.2046wong kar wai's loose sequel to in the mood for love combines that film's languorous air of romantic longing with a dizzying time hopping structure and avant sci fi twist'. '.strtoupper('t')ony leung chiu wai reprises his role as writer chow mo wan, whose numerous failed relationships with women who drift in and out of his life and the one who goes in and out of room 2046, down the hall from his apartment inspire the delirious futuristic love story he pens'. '.strtoupper('2')046's dazzling fantasy sequences give wong and two of his key collaborators cinematographer christopher doyle and editor costume designer production designer william chang suk ping license to let their imaginations run wild, propelling the sumptuous visuals and operatic emotions skyward toward the sublime.new 4k digital restorations of chungking express, fallen angels, happy together, in the mood for love and 2046, approved by director wong kar wai, with 5.1 surround dts hd master audio soundtracksnew 4k digital restorations of as tears go by and days of being wild, with uncompressed monaural soundtracksnew program in which wong answers questions submitted, at the invitation of the director, by authors andré aciman and jonathan lethem filmmakers sofia coppola, rian johnson, lisa joy, and chloé zhao cinematographers philippe le sourd and bradford young and filmmakers and founders creative directors of rodarte kate and laura mulleavyalternate version of days of being wild featuring different edits of the film's prologue and final scenes, on home video for the first timehua yang de nian hua, a 2000 short film by wongextended version of the hand, a 2004 short film by wong, available in the u.s'. '.strtoupper('f')or the first timeinterview and cinema lesson with wong from the 2001 cannes film festivalthree making of documentaries, featuring interviews with wong actors maggie cheung man yuk, tony leung chiu wai, chang chen, faye wong, and ziyi zhang and othersepisode of the television series moving pictures from 1996 featuring wong and cinematographer christopher doyleinterviews from 2002 and 2005 with doyleexcerpts from a 1994 british film institute audio interview with cheung on her work in days of being wild program from 2012 on in the mood for love's soundtrack press conference for in the mood for love from the 2000 toronto international film festivaldeleted scenes, alternate endings, behind the scenes footage, a promo reel, music videos, and trailersplus deluxe packaging, including a perfect bound, french fold book featuring lavish photography, an essay by critic john powers, a director's note, and six collectible art prints