Fa yeung nin wa (2000)

Director:

Kar Wai Wong

Writer:

Kar Wai Wong (written by)

Release Date:

26 February 2001 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Tagline:

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

Plot:

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

Plot Keywords:

Hong Kong | Newspaper | Apartment | Japan | What Happened To Epilogue

Awards:

Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 31 wins & 23 nominations

Cast

Maggie Cheung	...	Su Li-zhen - Mrs. Chan
Tony Leung Chiu Wai	...	Chow Mo-wan
Ping Lam Siu	...	Ah Ping
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
Julien Carbon	...	French tourist (uncredited)
Laurent Courtiaud	...	French reporter (uncredited)
Charles de Gaulle	...	Himself (1966 visit to Cambodia) (archive footage) (uncredited)

Directed by
Kar Wai Wong

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Kar Wai Wong		written by

Produced by
William Chang	....	associate producer
Ye-cheng Chan	....	executive producer
Gilles Ciment	....	co-executive producer
Jacky Pang Yee Wah	....	associate producer (as Jacky Pang Yee-Wah)
Kar Wai Wong	....	producer

Original Music by
Michael Galasso		(as Mike Galasso)
Shigeru Umebayashi

Cinematography by
Christopher Doyle
Pin Bing Lee		(as Mark Lee Ping-bin)

Film Editing by
William Chang

Production Design by
William Chang

Costume Design by
William Chang

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Johnnie Kong	....	first assistant director

Art Department
Ping Lam Siu	....	property master

Other crew
Tony Rayns	....	subtitler: english

Production Companies

• Block 2 Pictures
• Jet Tone Production
• Paradis Films

Distributors

• Artistas Argentinos Asociados (AAA) (2001) (Argentina) (theatrical)
• C-Films (2001) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Cinema Mondo (2001) (Finland) (theatrical)
• Filmcoopi Zürich (2000-2001) (Switzerland) (theatrical)
• Océan Films (2000) (France) (theatrical)
• Prokino Filmverleih (2000) (Germany) (theatrical)
• Solar Films (2004) (Philippines) (theatrical)
• Triangelfilm (2001) (Sweden) (theatrical)
• USA Films (2001) (USA) (theatrical) (subtitled)
• Amboto Audiovisual S.L. (Spain)
• C-sales Arthouse Video (2001) (Netherlands) (VHS)
• Criterion Collection, The (2004) (USA) (DVD)
• Criterion Film Corp. (DVD)
• Divisa Home Video (2004-2006) (Spain) (DVD)
• Mei Ah Entertainment (2001) (Hong Kong) (DVD)
• Palisades Tartan (2009) (UK) (all media)
• Shôchiku Eiga
• Transeuropa Video Entertainment (TVE) (2005) (Argentina) (DVD)
• Transeuropa Video Entertainment (TVE) (2005) (Argentina) (VHS)
• Universal Pictures (2001) (Germany) (DVD)
• Videoimpulse (2004) (Russia) (DVD)

Other Companies

• Asia Legend  opening title design
• Kantana Animation Co. Ltd.  film processing
• Kodak (Hong Kong) Ltd.  film supplied by
• Oriental Post Co. Ltd.  telecine
• Ramindra Sound Recording Studios  Dolby Digital sound mix
• Salon Films  equipment provided by
• True Technic Ltd.  sound re-recording

Also Known As:

In the Mood for Love (France) (Hong Kong: English title) (UK) (USA)
Beijing Summer (Hong Kong: English title) (working title)
Flower Like Years (Hong Kong: English title) (working title)
Hua yang nian hua (Hong Kong: Mandarin title)
Любовное настроение (Russia) [ru]
Amor à Flor da Pele (Brazil) [pt]
Ask zamani (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
Con ánimo de amar (Argentina) [es]
Deseando amar (Spain) [es]
Disponível Para Amar (Portugal) [pt]
Erotiki epithymia (Greece) [el]
In the Mood for Love (Finland) [fi]
In the Mood for Love (Spain) [es]
In the Mood for Love (Italy) (video title) [it]
In the Mood for Love - Der Klang der Liebe (Germany) [de]
Les silences du désir (Canada: French title) [fr]
Rakkaus käy taloksi (Finland) (TV title) [fi]
Spragnieni milosci (Poland) [pl]
Szerelemre hangolva (Hungary) [hu]

MPAA:

Rated PG for thematic elements and brief language.

Runtime:

98 min | Poland:94 min

Country:

Hong Kong | France

Language:

Cantonese | Shanghainese | French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Iceland:L | Malaysia:U | South Korea:15 | Argentina:Atp | Australia:G | Chile:TE | Finland:S | France:U | Germany:6 | Hong Kong:IIA | Ireland:PG | Netherlands:AL | Norway:A | Philippines:PG-13 | Singapore:PG | Spain:13 | Sweden:Btl | UK:PG | USA:PG

Filming Locations:

Cambodia

Company:

Block 2 Pictures

Trivia:

Filming took 15 months.

Goofs:

Continuity: Before Su Li-zhen bestowed her landlady with a electric rice cooker, there already was one sitting on the kitchen counter in an earlier scene.

Quotes:

Caption: He remembers those vanished years. As though looking throusth a dusty window pane, the past is something he could see, but not touch. And everything he sees is blurred and indistinct.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Le cinéma passe à table (2005) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Quizás, Quizás, Quizás

Moody Mis-en-scene

The most attractive factor that lies in this masterpiece of a film is not the beautiful lead actors. It isn't their outstanding acting and sizzling chemistry either.

To me, it is the mis-en-scene of the entire movie. The settings, the lighting, the props... all add to the mood for love between the main characters. A whiff of smoke from Chow's cigarette tells us his state of mind, the ever-changing tight-fitting cheongsams of Lizhen reflects the constraints of decision-making, the ruins of Angkor Wat ties in with the deteriorating relationship of the two leads.

The excellent use of mis-en-scene gives the film just the right amount of feel needed to flesh out the complicated nature of the characters' relationship. The film leaves the audience fruitlessly yearning for more.