Wong Kar Wai
Hong 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. Their encounters are formal and polite—until a discovery about their spouses creates an intimate bond between them. At 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. With 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.
Film Info
- Hong Kong
- 2000
- 98 minutes
- Color
- 1.66:1
- Cantonese
- Spine #147
DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- 4K digital restoration with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack, both supervised and approved by director Wong Kar Wai
- One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Documentary from 2001 by Wong, chronicling the making of the film
- Hua yang de nian hua (2000), a short film by Wong
- Interview and cinema lesson from 2001 featuring Wong
- Press conference from the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival with actors Maggie Cheung Man Yuk and Tony Leung Chiu Wai
- Interview from 2012 with critic Tony Rayns about the soundtrack
- Deleted scenes with optional commentary by Wong
- Music video
- Trailer
- PLUS: A new essay by novelist Charles Yu
Cover by Nessim Higson
Purchase Options
Collector's Sets
Collector's Set
World of Wong Kar Wai
Blu-ray Box Set
7 Discs
$159.96
Collector's Set
CC40
Blu-ray Box Set
49 Discs
$639.96
DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- 4K digital restoration with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack, both supervised and approved by director Wong Kar Wai
- One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Documentary from 2001 by Wong, chronicling the making of the film
- Hua yang de nian hua (2000), a short film by Wong
- Interview and cinema lesson from 2001 featuring Wong
- Press conference from the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival with actors Maggie Cheung Man Yuk and Tony Leung Chiu Wai
- Interview from 2012 with critic Tony Rayns about the soundtrack
- Deleted scenes with optional commentary by Wong
- Music video
- Trailer
- PLUS: A new essay by novelist Charles Yu
Cover by Nessim Higson
Cast
- Maggie Cheung Man Yuk
- Su Li-Zhen
- Tony Leung Chiu Wai
- Chow Mo-wan
Credits
- Director
- Wong Kar Wai
- Producer
- Wong Kar Wai
- Written by
- Wong Kar Wai
- Executive producer
- Chan Ye Cheng
- Associate producer
- Jacky Pang Yee Wah
- Director of photography
- Christopher Doyle
- Director of photography
- Mark Lee Ping Bing
- Production designer
- William Chang Suk Ping
- Editor
- William Chang Suk Ping
- Costume designer
- William Chang Suk Ping
- Music by
- Michael Galasso
Related Films
- Brief Encounter David Lean
- Chungking Express Wong Kar Wai
- La notte Michelangelo Antonioni
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Current
Sneak Peeks — Sep 26, 2012
A film of rich colors, mournful silences, and haunting symmetries, Wong Kar Wai’s masterpiece is a meticulously constructed memory box that invites fetishistic dissection.
By Charles Yu
Essays — Nov 1, 2022
By marrying the glamour of golden-age Hollywood to a quicksilver formal daring influenced by a wide range of artists, the Hong Kong auteur became one of the coolest and most beloved filmmakers in the world in the 1990s.
By John Powers
Essays — Mar 23, 2021
Set in 1960s Hong Kong, Wong Kar-wai’s ravishing masterpiece is both a love song to a city and a human romance of epic intimacy.
By Steve Erickson
Essays — Oct 2, 2012
Wong Kar-wai’s biggest commercial success to date elevated him to the mainstream of international art house cinema, and it echoes the end of an era with pure melancholic power.
By Li Cheuk-to
Essays — Mar 5, 2002
Under the Influence
What Wong Kar Wai Taught Barry Jenkins About LongingIn the first installment of our new video series Under the Influence, the Moonlight director waxes rhapsodic about Chungking Express and In the Mood for Love.
Visual Analysis — Nov 29, 2016
The director of Blue Sun Palace chooses a selection of films that have taught her about the craft of cinema, including works by Chantal Akerman, Robert Bresson, Edward Yang, and Satyajit Ray.
— May 12, 2025
