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Wong Kar-wai

Index Wong Kar-wai

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 stylized work, including As Tears Go By (1988), Days of Being Wild (1990), Ashes of Time (1994), Chungking Express (1994), Fallen Angels (1995), Happy Together (1997), 2046 (2004) and The Grandmaster (2013). [1]

160 relations: A Better Tomorrow, Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Academy Award for Best Production Design, Academy Awards, Alan Tang, Alfred Hitchcock, Amazon Video, Andy Lau, Anthology film, Art film, As Tears Go By (film), Ashes of Time, Auteur, B movie, BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language, Bangkok, Barry Jenkins, Beijing, Bernardo Bertolucci, Best Director Award (Cannes Film Festival), Biographical film, Brigitte Lin, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, British Film Institute, Bronze Bauhinia Star, Bruce Lee, Buenos Aires, Call girl, Cannes Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, Cantonese, Cantopop, Capitalism, Carina Lau, César Award for Best Foreign Film, Chang Chen, Charlie Young (actress), China, Christopher Doyle, Christopher Nolan, Chungking Express, Cinematographer, Cultural Revolution, Darius Khondji, David Bordwell, David Strathairn, Days of Being Wild, Directors' Fortnight, Ely, Nevada, Enfant terrible, ..., Eros (film), Fallen Angels (1995 film), Faye Wong, Federico Fellini, Film4, Final Victory, French New Wave, Gong Li, Graphic design, Happy Together (1997 film), Haruki Murakami, Harvard University, Historical period drama, Hong Kong, Hong Kong dollar, Hong Kong Film Award, Hong Kong New Wave, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, In the Mood for Love, In-Gear Film Production, Ingmar Bergman, International Film Festival of India, Ip Man, Ip Man (film), Ip Man 2, Jacky Cheung, Jean-Luc Godard, Jeffrey Lau, Jin Yong, John Woo, Jude Law, Julio Cortázar, Karen Mok, Las Vegas, Lawrence Block, Lee Myung-se, Legion of Honour, Leon Lai, Leslie Cheung, LGBT, Liu Yichang, Los Angeles (magazine), Macau, Maggie Cheung, Manhattan, Manuel Puig, Martin Scorsese, Mean Streets, Memphis, Tennessee, Michelangelo Antonioni, Michelle Reis, Ministry of Culture (France), Miramax, MTV, My Blueberry Nights, Natalie Portman, National Society of Film Critics, National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Foreign Language Film, New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Norah Jones, Norwegian Wood (novel), One country, two systems, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Palme d'Or, Patrick Tam (film director), Quentin Tarantino, Rachel Weisz, Racking focus, Robert De Niro, Rosa (1986 film), San Francisco, Second Sino-Japanese War, Shanghai, Sight & Sound, Slant Magazine, Sofia Coppola, Song dynasty, Steven Soderbergh, Storyboard, Takeshi Kaneshiro, The Boston Globe, The Grandmaster (film), The Legend Is Born: Ip Man, The Legend of the Condor Heroes, The Weinstein Company, Tom Tykwer, Tong Wars, Tong Wars (TV series), Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong, Tsim Sha Tsui, Tsui Hark, TVB, Ty Burr, Variety (magazine), Venice Film Festival, Wang (surname), William Chang, Wing Chun, World War II, Wuxia, Zhang Yimou, Zhang Yuan (director), Zhang Ziyi, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, 1989 Cannes Film Festival, 1997 Asian financial crisis, 2004 Cannes Film Festival, 2046 (film), 63rd Berlin International Film Festival. Expand index (110 more) »

A Better Tomorrow

A Better Tomorrow is a 1986 Hong Kong crime film, directed by John Woo, and starring Ti Lung, Leslie Cheung and Chow Yun-fat.

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Academy Award for Best Cinematography

The Academy Award for Best Cinematography is an Academy Award awarded each year to a cinematographer for work on one particular motion picture.

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Academy Award for Best Production Design

The Academy Award for Best Production Design recognizes achievement for art direction in film.

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.

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Alan Tang

Alan Tang Kwong-Wing (20 September 194629 March 2011) was a Hong Kong film actor, producer and director.

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Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director and producer, widely regarded as one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema.

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Amazon Video

Amazon Video is an Internet video on demand service that is developed, owned, and operated by Amazon.com.

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Andy Lau

Andy Lau Tak-wah, BBS, MH, JPFocus Film.

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Anthology film

An anthology film (also known as an omnibus film, package film, or portmanteau film) is a subgenre of films consisting of several different short films, often tied together by only a single theme, premise, or brief interlocking event (often a turning point).

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Art film

An art film is typically a serious, independent film, aimed at a niche market rather than a mass market audience.

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As Tears Go By (film)

As Tears Go By is a 1988 Hong Kong action drama film that was the directorial debut of Wong Kar-wai and starred Andy Lau, Maggie Cheung and Jacky Cheung.

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Ashes of Time

Ashes of Time is a 1994 Hong Kong film written and directed by Wong Kar-wai, and inspired by characters from Jin Yong's novel The Legend of the Condor Heroes.

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Auteur

An auteur ('author') is an artist, such as a film director, who applies a highly centralized and subjective control to many aspects of a collaborative creative work.

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B movie

A B movie or B film is a low-budget commercial movie, but not an arthouse film.

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BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language

The BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language is given annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and presented at the British Academy Film Awards.

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Bangkok

Bangkok is the capital and most populous city of the Kingdom of Thailand.

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Barry Jenkins

Barry Jenkins (born November 19, 1979) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter based in Los Angeles.

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Beijing

Beijing, formerly romanized as Peking, is the capital of the People's Republic of China, the world's second most populous city proper, and most populous capital city.

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Bernardo Bertolucci

Bernardo Bertolucci (born 16 March 1941) is an Italian director and screenwriter, whose films include The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, 1900, The Last Emperor (for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director), The Sheltering Sky, Stealing Beauty and The Dreamers.

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Best Director Award (Cannes Film Festival)

The Best Director Award (Prix de la mise en scène) is an annual award presented at the Cannes Film Festival for best directing achievements in a feature film screened as part of festival's official selection (i.e. films selected for the competition program which compete for the festival's main prize Palme d'Or).

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Biographical film

A biographical film, or biopic (abbreviation for biographical motion picture), is a film that dramatizes the life of a non-fictional or historically-based person or people.

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Brigitte Lin

Brigitte Lin Ching-hsia (born 3 November 1954) is a Taiwanese actress.

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British Academy of Film and Television Arts

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is an independent charity that supports, develops and promotes the art forms of the moving image – film, television and game in the United Kingdom.

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British Film Institute

The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and charitable organisation which promotes and preserves filmmaking and television in the United Kingdom.

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Bronze Bauhinia Star

The Bronze Bauhinia Star (BBS) is the lowest rank in Order of the Bauhinia Star in Hong Kong, created in 1997 to replace the British honours system of the Order of the British Empire after the transfer of sovereignty to People's Republic of China and the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR).

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Bruce Lee

Lee Jun-fan (November 27, 1940 – July 20, 1973), known professionally as Bruce Lee, was a Hong Kong and American actor, film director, martial artist, martial arts instructor, philosopher, and founder of the martial art Jeet Kune Do, one of the wushu or kungfu styles.

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Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is the capital and most populous city of Argentina.

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Call girl

A call girl or female escort is a sex worker who (unlike a street walker) does not display her profession to the general public; nor does she usually work in an institution like a brothel, although she may be employed by an escort agency.

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Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes Festival (Festival de Cannes), named until 2002 as the International Film Festival (Festival international du film) and known in English as the Cannes Film Festival, is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres, including documentaries from all around the world.

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Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor

The Best Actor Award (Prix d'interprétation masculine) is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival.

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Cantonese

The Cantonese language is a variety of Chinese spoken in the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding area in southeastern China.

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Cantopop

Cantopop (a contraction of "Cantonese pop music") or HK-pop (short for "Hong Kong pop music") is a genre of Cantonese music made primarily in Hong Kong, and also used to refer to the cultural context of its production and consumption.

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Capitalism

Capitalism is an economic system based upon private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.

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Carina Lau

Carina Lau Kar-ling (born 8 December 1965) is a Chinese actress and singer.

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César Award for Best Foreign Film

This is the list of winners and nominees of the César Award for Best Foreign Film (César du meilleur film étranger).

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Chang Chen

Chang Chen (born 14 October 1976), sometimes credited as Chen Chang according to Western name order, is a Taiwanese actor.

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Charlie Young (actress)

Charlie Young (born May 23, 1974), sometimes spelled Charlie Yeung, is a Hong Kong actress, singer and film director.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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Christopher Doyle

Christopher Doyle, also known as Dù Kěfēng (Mandarin) or Dou Ho-Fung (Cantonese) (born 2 May 1952) is an Australian-Hong Kong cinematographer who often works on Chinese language films.

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Christopher Nolan

Christopher Edward Nolan (born 30 July 1970) is an English film director, screenwriter, and producer who holds both British and American citizenship.

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Chungking Express

Chungking Express is a 1994 Hong Kong drama film written and directed by Wong Kar-wai.

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Cinematographer

A cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the chief over the camera and light crews working on a film, television production or other live action piece and is responsible for making artistic and technical decisions related to the image.

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Cultural Revolution

The Cultural Revolution, formally the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in China from 1966 until 1976.

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Darius Khondji

Darius Khondji, A.S.C. (داریوش خنجی; born 21 October 1955) is an Iranian-French cinematographer.

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David Bordwell

David Bordwell (born July 23, 1947) is an American film theorist and film historian.

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David Strathairn

David Russell Strathairn (born January 26, 1949) is an American actor.

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Days of Being Wild

Days of Being Wild is a 1990 Hong Kong drama film directed by Wong Kar-wai.

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Directors' Fortnight

The Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs) is an independent section held in parallel to the Cannes Film Festival.

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Ely, Nevada

Ely is the largest city and county seat of White Pine County, Nevada, United States.

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Enfant terrible

Enfant terrible ("unruly child") is a French expression, traditionally referring to a child who is terrifyingly candid by saying embarrassing things to parents or others.

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Eros (film)

Eros is a 2004 anthology film consisting of three short segments: The Hand directed by Wong Kar-wai in Mandarin, Equilibrium by Steven Soderbergh in English, and The Dangerous Thread of Things by Michelangelo Antonioni in Italian.

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Fallen Angels (1995 film)

Fallen Angels is a 1995 Hong Kong drama film written and directed by Wong Kar-wai, starring Leon Lai, Michelle Reis, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Charlie Yeung, and Karen Mok.

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Faye Wong

Faye Wong (born 8 August 1969) is a Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actress, often referred to as "the Diva" in the Chinese-speaking world.

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Federico Fellini

Federico Fellini, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (20 January 1920 – 31 October 1993) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.

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Film4

Film4 is a British digital television channel available in the United Kingdom, owned and operated by the Channel Four Television Corporation, that screens films.

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Final Victory

Final Victory is a 1987 Hong Kong action film directed by Patrick Tam and starring Eric Tsang, Loletta Lee, Margaret Lee and Tsui Hark.

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French New Wave

New Wave (La Nouvelle Vague) is often referred to as one of the most influential movements in the history of cinema.

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Gong Li

Gong Li (born 31 December 1965) is a Chinese film actress.

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Graphic design

Graphic design is the process of visual communication and problem-solving through the use of typography, photography and illustration.

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Happy Together (1997 film)

Happy Together (春光乍洩) is a 1997 Hong Kong romance film directed by Wong Kar-wai, starring Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-wai, that depicts a turbulent romance.

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Haruki Murakami

is a Japanese writer.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Historical period drama

The term historical period drama (also historical drama, period drama, costume drama, and period piece) refers to a work set in a past time period, usually used in the context of film and television.

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong (Chinese: 香港), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is an autonomous territory of China on the eastern side of the Pearl River estuary in East Asia.

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Hong Kong dollar

The Hong Kong dollar (sign: HK$; code: HKD) is the official currency of Hong Kong.

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Hong Kong Film Award

The Hong Kong Film Awards (HKFA), founded in 1982, is an annual film awards ceremony in Hong Kong.

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Hong Kong New Wave

The Hong Kong New Wave was a movement in Chinese-language cinema that emerged in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

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Hong Kong Polytechnic University

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) is a public university located in Hung Hom, Hong Kong.

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In the Mood for Love

In the Mood for Love is a 2000 romantic Hong Kong film written, produced, and directed by Wong Kar-wai.

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In-Gear Film Production

In-Gear Film Production Co., Ltd., or In-Gear Film, was a Hong Kong production company that was established by actor/film producer Alan Tang in 1987.

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Ingmar Bergman

Ernst Ingmar Bergman (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a Swedish director, writer, and producer who worked in film, television, theatre and radio.

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International Film Festival of India

The International Film Festival of India (IFFI), founded in 1952, is one of the most significant film festivals in Asia.

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Ip Man

Ip Man, also known as Yip Man, (1 October 1893 – 2 December 1972), was a Chinese martial artist, and a master teacher of Wing Chun.

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Ip Man (film)

Ip Man is a 2008 Hong Kong biographical martial arts film based on the life of Ip Man, a grandmaster of the martial art Wing Chun and teacher of Bruce Lee.

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Ip Man 2

Ip Man 2 (also known as Ip Man 2: Legend of the Grandmaster) is a 2010 Hong Kong biographical martial arts film loosely based on the life of Ip Man, a grandmaster of the martial art Wing Chun.

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Jacky Cheung

Jacky Cheung Hok-yau (born 10 July 1961) is a Hong Kong singer, songwriter and actor.

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Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard (born 3 December 1930) is a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic.

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Jeffrey Lau

Jeffrey Lau Chun-Wai (born 2 August 1952) is a Hong Kong film director, screenwriter, actor and producer.

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Jin Yong

Louis Cha Leung-yung, (born 6 February 1924), better known by his pen name Jin Yong, is a Chinese wuxia ("martial arts and chivalry") novelist and essayist who co-founded the Hong Kong daily newspaper Ming Pao in 1959 and served as its first editor-in-chief.

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John Woo

John Woo SBS (Wu Yu-seng; Ng Yu-sum (Cantonese); born May 1, 1946) is a Chinese-born Hong Kong film director, writer, and producer.

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Jude Law

David Jude Heyworth Law (born 29 December 1972) is an English actor.

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Julio Cortázar

Julio Cortázar, born Julio Florencio Cortázar; (August 26, 1914 – February 12, 1984) was an Argentine novelist, short story writer, and essayist.

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Karen Mok

Karen Joy Morris, known professionally as Karen Mok, is one of the leading Hong Kong actress and pop stars.

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Las Vegas

Las Vegas (Spanish for "The Meadows"), officially the City of Las Vegas and often known simply as Vegas, is the 28th-most populated city in the United States, the most populated city in the state of Nevada, and the county seat of Clark County.

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Lawrence Block

Lawrence Block (born June 24, 1938) is an American crime writer best known for two long-running New York–set series about the recovering alcoholic P.I. Matthew Scudder and the gentleman burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr.

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Lee Myung-se

Lee Myung-se (born August 20, 1957) is a South Korean filmmaker.

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Legion of Honour

The Legion of Honour, with its full name National Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), is the highest French order of merit for military and civil merits, established in 1802 by Napoléon Bonaparte and retained by all the divergent governments and regimes later holding power in France, up to the present.

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Leon Lai

Leon Lai-ming, BBS, MH (born 11 December 1966) is a Chinese-born Hong Kong actor and Cantopop singer.

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Leslie Cheung

Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing (12 September 1956 – 1 April 2003) was a Hong Kong singer, actor as well as composer.

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LGBT

LGBT, or GLBT, is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender.

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Liu Yichang

Liu Yichang, BBS, MH (7 December 1918 – 8 June 2018), or Lau Yee Cheung in Cantonese, was a Shanghai-born Hong Kong-based writer, editor and publisher who is considered the founder of the city's modern literature.

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Los Angeles (magazine)

Los Angeles magazine is a monthly publication dedicated to covering Los Angeles.

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Macau

Macau, officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is an autonomous territory on the western side of the Pearl River estuary in East Asia.

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Maggie Cheung

Maggie Cheung Man-yuk (born 20 September 1964) is an actress from Hong Kong.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace.

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Manuel Puig

Juan Manuel Puig Delledonne (December 28, 1932 – July 22, 1990) was an Argentine author.

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Martin Scorsese

Martin Charles Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an American director, producer, screenwriter, actor and film historian, whose career spans more than 50 years.

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Mean Streets

Mean Streets is a 1973 American crime film directed by Martin Scorsese and co-written by Scorsese and Mardik Martin.

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Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis is a city located along the Mississippi River in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee.

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Michelangelo Antonioni

Michelangelo Antonioni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (29 September 1912 – 30 July 2007), was an Italian film director, screenwriter, editor, and short story writer.

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Michelle Reis

Michelle Monique Reis (born 20 June 1970) is a Hong Kong actress of Portuguese and Shanghainese descent.

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Ministry of Culture (France)

The Ministry of Culture (Ministère de la Culture) is the ministry of the Government of France in charge of national museums and the monuments historiques.

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Miramax

Miramax (also known as Miramax Films) is an American entertainment company known for producing and distributing films and television shows.

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MTV

MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks (a division of Viacom) and headquartered in New York City.

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My Blueberry Nights

My Blueberry Nights is a 2007 American romantic drama film directed by Wong Kar-wai, his first feature in English.

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Natalie Portman

Natalie Portman (born Neta-Lee Hershlag on June 9, 1981) is an Israeli-American actress, film producer and director.

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National Society of Film Critics

The National Society of Film Critics (NSFC) is an American film critic organization.

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National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the annual awards given by the National Society of Film Critics.

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New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the annual film critics awards given by the New York Film Critics Circle.

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Norah Jones

Norah Jones (born Geetali Norah Shankar; March 30, 1979) is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist.

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Norwegian Wood (novel)

is a 1987 novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami.

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One country, two systems

"One country, two systems" is a constitutional principle formulated by Deng Xiaoping, the Paramount Leader of the People's Republic of China (PRC), for the reunification of China during the early 1980s.

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Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

The Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of Arts and Letters) is an Order of France, established on 2 May 1957 by the Minister of Culture, and its supplementary status to the Ordre national du Mérite was confirmed by President Charles de Gaulle in 1963.

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Palme d'Or

The Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) is the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival.

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Patrick Tam (film director)

Patrick Tam Kar Ming (born March 25, 1948) is a Hong Kong film director and film editor.

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Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American director, writer, and actor.

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Rachel Weisz

Rachel Hannah Weisz ("vice"; born 7 March 1970) is an English actress.

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Racking focus

A rack focus in filmmaking and television production is the practice of changing the focus of the lens during a shot.

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Robert De Niro

Robert Anthony De Niro Jr. (born August 17, 1943) is an American actor, producer, and director.

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Rosa (1986 film)

Rosa is a 1986 Hong Kong action comedy film directed by Joe Cheung and starring Yuen Biao, Lowell Lo, Luk Siu-fan, Kara Hui and Paul Chun.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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Second Sino-Japanese War

The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan from July 7, 1937, to September 2, 1945.

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Shanghai

Shanghai (Wu Chinese) is one of the four direct-controlled municipalities of China and the most populous city proper in the world, with a population of more than 24 million.

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Sight & Sound

Sight & Sound is a British monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute (BFI).

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Slant Magazine

Slant Magazine is an American online publication that features reviews of movies, music, TV, DVDs, theater, and video games, as well as interviews with actors, directors, and musicians.

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Sofia Coppola

Sofia Carmina Coppola (born May 14, 1971) is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and former actress.

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Song dynasty

The Song dynasty (960–1279) was an era of Chinese history that began in 960 and continued until 1279.

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Steven Soderbergh

Steven Andrew Soderbergh (born January 14, 1963) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.

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Storyboard

A storyboard is a graphic organizer in the form of illustrations or images displayed in sequence for the purpose of pre-visualizing a motion picture, animation, motion graphic or interactive media sequence.

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Takeshi Kaneshiro

Takeshi Kaneshiro (金城武; born October 11, 1973) is a Taiwanese-Japanese actor and singer.

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The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe (sometimes abbreviated as The Globe) is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts, since its creation by Charles H. Taylor in 1872.

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The Grandmaster (film)

The Grandmaster is a 2013 Hong Kong-Chinese martial arts drama film based on the life story of the Wing Chun grandmaster Ip Man.

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The Legend Is Born: Ip Man

The Legend Is Born – Ip Man is a 2010 Hong Kong biographical martial arts film based on the early life of the Wing Chun grandmaster Ip Man, directed by Herman Yau and starring Dennis To in the titular role.

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The Legend of the Condor Heroes

The Legend of the Condor Heroes is a wuxia novel by Jin Yong (Louis Chan).

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The Weinstein Company

The Weinstein Company LLC (usually credited or abbreviated as TWC) is an American independent film studio, founded in New York City by Bob and Harvey Weinstein in 2005.

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Tom Tykwer

Tom Tykwer (born 23 May 1965) is a German film director, producer, screenwriter, and composer.

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Tong Wars

The Tong Wars were a series of violent disputes beginning in the 1880s among rival Chinese Tong factions centered in the Chinatowns of various American cities, in particular San Francisco.

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Tong Wars (TV series)

Tong Wars is an upcoming American historical crime drama web television series written by Paul Attanasio and directed by Wong Kar-wai set to premiere with a first season of ten episodes on Amazon Video.

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Tony Leung Chiu-wai

Tony Leung Chiu-wai (born 27 June 1962) is a Hong Kong actor.

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Transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong

The transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to China, referred to as "the Handover" internationally or "the Return" in Mainland China, took place on 1 July 1997.

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Tsim Sha Tsui

Tsim Sha Tsui, often abbreviated as TST, is an urban area in southern Kowloon, Hong Kong.

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Tsui Hark

Tsui Hark (Từ Khắc, born 15 February 1950), born Tsui Man-kong, is a Vietnam-born Chinese film director, producer and screenwriter.

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TVB

Television Broadcasts Limited, commonly known as TVB, was the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong and commenced broadcasting on 19 November 1967.

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Ty Burr

Ty Burr (born August 17, 1957) is an American film critic, columnist, and author who writes for The Boston Globe.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is a weekly American entertainment trade magazine and website owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Venice Film Festival

The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival (Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is the oldest film festival in the world and one of the "Big Three" film festivals, alongside the Cannes Film Festival and Berlin International Film Festival.

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Wang (surname)

Wang is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surnames 王 (Wáng) and 汪 (Wāng).

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William Chang

William Chang Suk Ping (born 1953) (張叔平) is a Hong Kong film editor, costume designer, production designer and art director, and along with cinematographer Christopher Doyle is an important collaborator with Hong Kong film director Wong Kar-wai.

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Wing Chun

Wing Chun is a traditional Southern Chinese Kung fu (wushu) specializing in close range combat.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Wuxia

Wuxia (武俠, IPA), which literally means "martial heroes", is a genre of Chinese fiction concerning the adventures of martial artists in ancient China.

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Zhang Yimou

Zhang Yimou (born 2 April 1950) is a Chinese film director, producer, writer and actor, and former cinematographer.

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Zhang Yuan (director)

Zhang Yuan (born October 1963) is a Chinese film director who has been described by film scholars as a pioneering member of China's Sixth Generation of filmmakers.

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Zhang Ziyi

Zhang Ziyi (born 9 February 1979) is a Chinese actress.

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1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die

1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die is a film reference book edited by Steven Jay Schneider with original essays on each film contributed by over 70 film critics.

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1989 Cannes Film Festival

The 42nd Cannes Film Festival was held from 11 to 23 May 1989.

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1997 Asian financial crisis

The Asian financial crisis was a period of financial crisis that gripped much of East Asia beginning in July 1997 and raised fears of a worldwide economic meltdown due to financial contagion.

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2004 Cannes Film Festival

The 57th Cannes Film Festival started on 12 and ran until 23 May 2004.

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2046 (film)

2046 is a 2004 Hong Kong romantic drama film written and directed by Wong Kar-wai.

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63rd Berlin International Film Festival

The 63rd annual Berlin International Film Festival took place in Berlin, Germany between 7 and 17 February 2013.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wong_Kar-wai

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