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The director of modern classics such as Days of Being Wild, Chungking Express, In the Mood for Love, and The Grandmaster began production on the series in 2020 The series will run for 30 episodes of around 50 minutes each, with the first four episodes out on December 27th – followed by two episodes per[...]

Chungking Express was more surprising and influential on Hollywood movies and TV shows during the 1990s as well as Fallen Angels, the thematic darker follow-up It feels like there's still a fixation on the past and nostalgia in Everything Everywhere All at Once fixating on In the Mood for Love, which is set in the[...]

Arthouse auteur Wong Kar Wai, master of romantic longing, languid melancholy, is making a sequel to Chungking Express, his 1994 classic that helped define the 1990s According to multiple posts on Chinese social media, a project with the working title of Chungking Express 2020 was approved by the China Film Administration back in April for[...]

It was to be considered a spiritual and thematic sequel to In the Mood for Love and 2046, which were in turn sequels to Wong's second movie Days of Being Wild, the movie that originally put him on the map before he achieved international fame with Chungking Express and In the Mood for Love. Rising star[...]

Wong, Hong Kong's most acclaimed filmmaker whose Chungking Express influenced an entire generation of filmmakers worldwide, has a long record of unmade or unfinished projects on his resumé. Meanwhile, Wong's other major movie, Blossoms, has also been postponed indefinitely This was not his fault This is part of the Chinese government's emergency measure to prevent further[...]