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In the Mood for Love (2000)
"Fa yeung nin wa" (original title)

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A man and a woman move in to neighboring Hong Kong apartments and form a bond when they both suspect their spouses of extramarital activities.

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Ping Lam Siu ...
Tung Cho 'Joe' Cheung ...
Man living in Mr. Koo's apartment
Rebecca Pan ...
Mrs. Suen
Kelly Lai Chen ...
Mr. Ho (as Lai Chen)
Man-Lei Chan ...
Mr. Koo
Tsi-Ang Chin ...
Amah
Roy Cheung ...
Mr. Chan (voice)
Paulyn Sun ...
Mrs. Chow (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Po-chun Chow
Kam-wah Koo
Hsien Yu
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Set in Hong Kong, 1962, Chow Mo-Wan is a newspaper editor who moves into a new building with his wife. At the same time, Su Li-zhen, a beautiful secretary and her executive husband also move in to the crowded building. With their spouses often away, Chow and Li-zhen spend most of their time together as friends. They have everything in common from noodle shops to martial arts. Soon, they are shocked to discover that their spouses are having an affair. Hurt and angry, they find comfort in their growing friendship even as they resolve not to be like their unfaithful mates. Written by Anonymous

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Feel the heat, keep the feeling burning, let the sensation explode.

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Rated PG for thematic elements and brief language | See all certifications »

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29 September 2000 (Hong Kong)  »

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Opening Weekend:

$113,280 (USA) (2 February 2001)

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ESP 125,406,499 (Spain) (29 June 2001)
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Chosen by "Les Cahiers du cinĂ©ma" (France) as one of the 10 best pictures of 2000 (#05). See more »

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When the people of the house are using the rice cooker that Mr. Chan brought for the landlady from his trip, Mrs. Chan is reading a newspaper and the newspaper is wide open. When she tells Mr. Chow that she will tell her husband to buy a rice cooker for him, the newspaper is folded but when Mr. Chow walks away at the end of that chat, the newspaper is wide open again. See more »

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Chow Mo-wan: Feelings can creep up just like that. I thought I was in control.
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"Aquellos Ojos Verdes"
Written by Adolfo Utrera and Nilo Menendez
Performed by Nat 'King' Cole
Publisher: Peer International corp. (Peermusic (SE Asia) Ltd.) / Campbell Connelly Co. & Ltd. (BMG Music Publishing HK Ltd.)
Courtesy of Capitol Records
Under License From EMI - Capitol Music Special Markets
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The most disarming romance ever filmed.
29 November 2004 | by (Switzerland) – See all my reviews

In 60s Hong Kong, a man and woman move in the same day into adjacent apartments with their respective spouses. Soon they suspect their ever absent spouses of having an affair with one-another. A strange bond emerges between the man and woman as they cope with their sadness by taking turns playing each other's spouse, before a more complex bond emerges...

No summary can do it justice, for Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar-Wai's "In the Mood for Love" is nothing short of a miracle. A story about sadness that manages to be touching and at times funny. A romance that never feels forced or fake. No doubt the director's method has a lot to do with that.

Directed from an inexistent screenplay (though the concept largely flows from a Japanese short story) to favor improvisation, the film is immediately set apart by the freshness of it's performances. All the film revolves around that and the rest is pure enhancement. At the core of the film are two characters that will ease into your heart and stay there long after the end credits roll: Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung are simply amazing and no language barrier undermines a single fragment of immediacy and truth they display. The additional material is also top-notch: the films is magnificent to behold (in part lensed by "Hero"'s Christopher Doyle) and the music is heartbreaking.

This is something everybody must see, if only because it is by far the most heartfelt, mature and authentic "love story" out there. Unmissable.


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