In the Mood for Love
Directed by	Wong Kar-wai
Produced by	Wong Kar-wai
Written by	Wong Kar-wai
Starring	Tony Leung Maggie Cheung
Music by	Michael Galasso Shigeru Umebayashi
Cinematography	Christopher Doyle Pin Bing Lee
Editing by	William Chang
Distributed by	USA Films
Release date(s)	September 29, 2000 (HK) February 2, 2001 (US)
Running time	98 min. 94 min. (Poland)
Country	Hong Kong, France
Language	Cantonese Shanghainese French
Preceded by	Days of Being Wild (1991)
Followed by	2046 (2004)
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In the Mood for Love is a 2000 Hong Kong art film directed by Wong Kar-wai, starring Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu Wai. Its original Chinese title is 花樣年華 (Simplified Chinese: 花样年华, Yale (Cantonese): fa1 yeung6 nin4 wa4, Hanyu pinyin: Huāyàng niánhuá), which means The (Golden) Age of Flowers. The English title derives from a Bryan Ferry cover of the song "I'm in the Mood for Love"; the Chinese title from the Golden Oldie number 花樣的年華 by Zhou Xuan in a 1946 film 《长相思》. Download high resolution version (860x1207, 115 KB)In the Mood for Love movie poster. ... Wong Kar-wai (Traditional Chinese: ; Simplified Chinese: ; Pinyin: ; Cantonese Yale: Wòhng Gà Waih; Shanghainese Latin method: Wan Kawe; born July 17, 1958) is a Hong Kong film director known for his visually unique, highly stylized art films. ... Wong Kar-wai (Traditional Chinese: ; Simplified Chinese: ; Pinyin: ; Cantonese Yale: Wòhng Gà Waih; Shanghainese Latin method: Wan Kawe; born July 17, 1958) is a Hong Kong film director known for his visually unique, highly stylized art films. ... Wong Kar-wai (Traditional Chinese: ; Simplified Chinese: ; Pinyin: ; Cantonese Yale: Wòhng Gà Waih; Shanghainese Latin method: Wan Kawe; born July 17, 1958) is a Hong Kong film director known for his visually unique, highly stylized art films. ... Tony Leung Chiu-wai in a 2006 promotional photograph for the Hong Kong Entertainment Expo Tony Leung Chiu Wai (Chinese: ; pinyin: ) (born in Hong Kong on June 27, 1962) is a Hong Kong movie and ex-television actor. ... Maggie Cheung Man-yuk (張曼玉; pinyin: Zhāng Mànyù; Cantonese: dzoeng1 maan6 juk9/juk2) (born September 20, 1964) is a multi award-winning Chinese actress from Hong Kong. ... Shigeru Umebayashi (born February 19, 1951 in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka) is a Japanese composer. ... Christopher Doyle Christopher Doyle (born May 2, 1952 in Sydney, Australia; Chinese name: 杜可風) is an Australian-born cinematographer and member of the HKSC. Doyle has worked with Chinese directors like Wong Kar-wai (for which he has done the cinematography of all his movies but the first one), Zhang Yimou... Focus Features (formerly known as USA Films and, in the beginning, Gramercy Pictures) is the speciality films division of Universal Pictures, a division of NBC Universal, the U.S.-based film, television and recreation entity of General Electric. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Hong_Kong. ... September 29 is the 272nd day of the year (273rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 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Maggie Cheung Man-yuk (張曼玉; pinyin: Zhāng Mànyù; Cantonese: dzoeng1 maan6 juk9/juk2) (born September 20, 1964) is a multi award-winning Chinese actress from Hong Kong. ... Tony Leung Chiu-wai in a 2006 promotional photograph for the Hong Kong Entertainment Expo Tony Leung Chiu Wai (Chinese: ; pinyin: ) (born in Hong Kong on June 27, 1962) is a Hong Kong movie and ex-television actor. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The Yale romanizations are four systems created during World War II for use by United States military personnel. ... Pinyin (拼音, Pīnyīn) literally means join (together) sounds (a less literal translation being phoneticize, spell or transcription) in Chinese and usually refers to Hànyǔ Pīnyīn (汉语拼音, literal meaning: Han language pinyin), which is a system of... 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The movie forms the second part of an informal trilogy, together with the first part Days of Being Wild (released in 1991) and the last part 2046 (released in 2004). Days of Being Wild aka The True Story of Ah Fei (Traditional Chinese: ; Simplified Chinese: ; pinyin: ā fēi zhèng zhuàn) is a 1991 Hong Kong movie by director Wong Kar-wai. ... Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the 1991 Gregorian calendar). ... 2046 is a Hong Kong movie (filmed in Shanghai) written and directed by Wong Kar-wai and released in 2004. ... shelby was here 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Plot outline

The movie takes place in Hong Kong, 1962. Chow Mo-Wan (Tony Leung Chiu-Wai), a journalist, rents a room in an apartment on the same day as Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung Man-yuk), a secretary from a shipping company. They become next-door neighbours. Each has a spouse who is working and often leaves them alone on overtime shift. Despite the presence of a friendly landlady, Mrs Suen, and bustling, mahjong-playing neighbours, Chow and Su often find themselves alone in their rooms, and they begin to strike up a friendship. Year 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This does not cite any references or sources. ... Mahjong (Traditional Chinese: ; Simplified Chinese: ; Pinyin: ; Cantonese: Màhjeung; other common English spellings include mahjongg, majiang, and hyphenated forms such as mah-jong or mah-jongg) is a game for four players that originated in China. ...

Chow and Su finally admit their shared suspicions that their spouses are cheating on them with each other. Chow persuades Su to re-enact what they imagine might have happened between their partners' and their lovers, and slowly the line between playacting and real romance blurs.

Chow invites Su to help him with a martial arts series that he is writing for the newspaper. As their relationship begins to draw closer, people begin to notice, and Chow and Su try to persuade each other that they will not end up as their spouses. At the end of the movie, Chow leaves Su for a job in Singapore after she rejects his offer to go together. Four years later Su and her young son visit an emigrating Mrs Suen at their old lodgings. Chow, revisiting the place, narrowly misses out meeting up with her. At Phnom Penh, Cambodia, covering the visit of President Charles de Gaulle, Chow visits the Angkor Wat and whispers several years worth of secrets into a hole in a wall, before plugging the hole with mud. Wǔxiá (Traditional Chinese: ; Simplified Chinese: , Mandarin IPA: , Cantonese Pinyin: mou5 hap6), literally meaning martial (arts) heroes, is a distinct quasi-fantasy sub-genre of the martial arts genre in literature, television and cinema. ... City motto: No motto City proper Province Phnom Penh Mayor Kep Chuktema ( ) Area 376 km² Population 2,009,264(2006) Density 5343. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Aerial view of Angkor Wat The main entrance to the temple proper, seen from the eastern end of the Naga causeway Angkor Wat (or Angkor Vat) is a temple at Angkor, Cambodia, built for King Suryavarman II in the early 12th century as his state temple and capital city. ...

Style and Themes

Wong states he was very influenced by Hitchcock's Vertigo while making this film, and compares Tony Leung's movie character to Jimmy Stewart's: This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...

"the role of Tony in the film reminds me of Jimmy Stewart's in Vertigo. There is a dark side to this character. I think it's very interesting that most of the audience prefers to think that this is a very innocent relationship. These are the good guys, because their spouses are the first ones to be unfaithful and they refuse to be. Nobody sees any darkness in these characters - and yet they are meeting in secret to act out fictitious scenarios of confronting their spouses and of having an affair. I think this happens because the face of Tony Leung is so sympathetic. Just imagine if it was John Malkovich playing this role. You would think, 'This guy is really weird.' It's the same in Vertigo. Everybody thinks Jimmy Stewart is a nice guy, so nobody thinks that his character is actually very sick."

Two novel artistic devices are used in this movie. One is the use of seemingly repetitive scenes and the other is that certain sequences which look like one scene are actually a collage of numerous encounters of the two main characters in the movie. These techniques gave the audience the impression that these two characters were doing the same thing over and over again over a very long period of time. However, paying attention to the dresses (qipao) that Maggie Cheung wears reveals that she wore a different dress in every single shot in those sequences. They are more likely artistic shots with different costume and makeup for each shot. John Gavin Malkovich (born December 9, 1953) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor, producer and director. ... Jimmy Stewart, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1934 James Maitland Stewart (May 20, 1908 – July 2, 1997) was an American film actor beloved for his persona as an average guy who faces adversity and tries to do the right thing, an image which was largely reflected in his own... Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ... A collage composed of magazine articles and pictures Collage (From the French: , to stick) is regarded as a work of visual arts made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Chow and Su's spouses are rarely shown and in those occasions their faces are not seen, resulting in brief one-sided scenes in which Wong uses only the angle showing either Chow or Su.

Title song

The track song Hua Yang De Nian Hua is based on a song by famous singer Zhou Xuan from the Solitary Island period. The 1946 song, used in Wong's film, is a peaen to a happy past and an oblique metaphor for the darkness of Japanese-Occupied Shanghai. Wong also set the song to his short 2000 film, also named Hua Yang De Nian Hua after the track. Zhou Xuan Zhou Xuan (周璇, Wades-Giles: Zhou Hsuan) (1 August 1918 - 22 September 1957, Shanghai) was a popular Chinese singer and film actress. ... Shanghai (Chinese: ; pinyin:  ; Wu (Long-short): ZÃ¥nhae; Shanghainese (IPA): ), situated on the banks of the Yangtze River Delta in East China, is the largest city of the Peoples Republic of China and the ninth largest in the world. ...

《花樣的年華》

花樣的年華 The years (slipped past) like flowers...

月樣的精神 the vigor light of the moon

冰雪樣的聰明 bright, clever as glacier snow

美麗的生活 our beautiful life

多情的眷屬 my affectionate spouse

圓滿的家庭 this happy and fulfilled family...

驀地里這孤島籠罩著慘霧愁云 suddenly gloomy clouds and fog loom across this solitary isle

慘霧愁云 clouds of gloom and melancholy

啊，可愛的祖國 Ah, my lovely native country

几時我能夠投進你的怀抱 when can I go back into your arms

能見那霧消云散 and see these fogs dispel

重見你放出光明 and behold you give off light again

花樣的年華 (as in) those flower-like years

月樣的精神 and of the moon...

Soundtrack

• Shigeru Umebayashi: "Yumeji's Theme" (originally from the soundtrack of Seijun Suzuki's Yumeji)
• Michael Galasso: "Angkor Wat Theme", "ITMFL", "Casanova/Flute"
• Nat King Cole: "Aquellos Ojos Verdes", "Te Quiero Dijiste", "Quizás, Quizás, Quizás"
• Bryan Ferry: "I'm in the Mood for Love" (the inspiration for the English title, found on e.g. the French 2 CD Soundtrack, not in the film)
• Zhou Xuan: 《花樣的年華》 "Hua Yang De Nian Hua" (the inspiration for the original Chinese title)

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Cast and roles

• Tony Leung Chiu Wai - Chow Mo-Wan
• Maggie Cheung - Su Lizhen (Mrs Chan)
• Siu Ping Lam - Ah Ping
• Cheung Tung Cho 'Joe' - Special appearance
• Rebecca Pan - Mrs Suen
• Lai Chen - Mr Ho
• Chan Man-Lei
• Koo Kam-wah
• Roy Cheung - Mr Chan (voice)
• Zhi-Gong Chen - The amah (female servant)
• Yu Hsien
• Chow Po-chun
• Paulyn Sun - Mrs Chow (voice)
• Wong Man-lei - Koo Kam-wah
• Julien Carbon - French tourist (uncredited)

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Box Office

In the Mood for Love made HK $8,663,227 during its Hong Kong run.

On February 2, 2001, the film opened in 6 North American theatres, earning a strong US $113,280 ($18,880 per screen) in its first weekend. It finished its North American run with a respectable US $2,738,980.

The film's total worldwide box office gross is US $12,854,953.

Awards and nominations

• 2000 Cannes Film Festival
  • Won: Best Actor (Tony Leung Chiu-wai)
  • Won: Technical Grand Prize (Christopher Doyle, Lee Ping-bing, William Chang)
  • Nominated: Palm d'Or

• 2001 Hong Kong Film Awards
  • Won: Best Actor (Tony Leung Chiu-wai)
  • Won: Best Actress (Maggie Cheung)
  • Won: Best Art Direction (William Chang)
  • Won: Best Costume and Make-up Design (William Chang)
  • Won: Best Film Editing (William Chang)
  • Nominated: Best Picture
  • Nominated: Best Director (Wong Kar-wai)
  • Nominated: Best Supporting Actress (Poon Dick-wah)
  • Nominated: Best Screenplay (Wong Kar-wai)
  • Nominated: Best New Performer (Siu Ping-lam)
  • Nominated: Best Cinematography (Christopher Doyle, Lee Pin-bing)
  • Nomianted: Best Original Score (Michael Galasso)

• 2001 Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards
  • Won: Best Director (Wong Kar-wai)
  • Won: Film of merit

• 2002 National Society of Film Critics (USA)
  • Won: Best Foreign Language Film
  • Won: Best Cinematography (Christopher Doyle, Lee Pin-bing)

• 2001 Cesar Awards
  • Won: Best Foreign Film

• 2001 German Film Awards
  • Won: Best Foreign Film

• 2001 New York Film Critics Circle Awards
  • Won: Best Foreign Language Film
  • Won: Best Cinematography (Christopher Doyle, Lee Pin-bing)

• 2001 BAFTA Awards
  • Nominated: Best Foreign Language Film

• 2002 Argentinian Film Critics Association Awards
  • Won: Best Foreign Language Film

• 2000 Asia-Pacific Film Festival
  • Won: Best Cinematography (Christopher Doyle, Lee Pin-bing)
  • Won: Best Editing (William Chang)

• 2001 Australian Film Institute Awards
  • Nominated: Best Foreign Language Film

• 2001 British Independent Film Awards
  • Won: Best Foreign Language Film

• 2002 Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards
  • Nomianted: Best Foreign Language Film

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Miscellaneous

While set in Hong Kong, the actual filming location of outdoor and hotel scenes was Bangkok, Thailand. The movie also incorporates footage of Angkor Wat, Cambodia. A BTS skytrain passing the Sathon area of Bangkok. ... Aerial view of Angkor Wat The main entrance to the temple proper, seen from the eastern end of the Naga causeway Angkor Wat (or Angkor Vat) is a temple at Angkor, Cambodia, built for King Suryavarman II in the early 12th century as his state temple and capital city. ...

See also

• Qipao
• Cinema of Hong Kong
• Christopher Doyle
• List of movies set in Hong Kong

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External links

• Official site
• In the Mood for Love at the Internet Movie Database
• Criterion Collection essay by Li Cheuk-to
• A review/essay of the DVD set released by Criterion Collection by David Ng.