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Director:
Peter Chan
Writers:
Oi Wah Lam
Raymond To
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Release Date:
1 December 2005 (China) See more »
Genre:
Drama | Musical | Romance See more »
Plot:
A love triangle develops during the making of a musical in mainland China. | Add synopsis »
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Awards:
17 wins & 13 nominations See more »
NewsDesk:
(8 articles)
The Warlords
 (From The Hollywood Reporter. 17 April 2008)
Perhaps Love
 (From The Hollywood Reporter. 8 June 2006)
H.K. film nods cast vote for To's 'Election'
 (From The Hollywood Reporter. 10 April 2006)
User Reviews:
Life is a movie - with deleted scenes and added songs See more (25 total) »

Cast

  (in credits order)

Takeshi Kaneshiro ... Lin Jian-dong / Zhang Yang
Xun Zhou ... Sun Na / Xiaoyu
Jacky Cheung ... Nie Wen / The Circus Master
Jin-hee Ji ... Monty
Eric Tsang ... Producer
Sandra Ng Kwan Yue ... Lin's Manager
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Tung Man Chan ... Hotel Receptionist
Suresh Chandukutty ... Indian Dancer
Ji-lai Dong ... Man at Crossroad
Yong Fan ... Man at Crossroad
Helen Feng ... Crossroad Hooker
Lei-Xin Gao ... Producer's Girlfriend #2
Stephen Kealy ... Foreign Producer
Na Li ... Crossroad Hooker
Su-qin Li ... Man at Crossroad
Kirankumar Manikumar ... Indian Dancer
Shirin Nagporewala ... Indian Dancer
Anisha Narang ... Indian Dancer
Adil Shaikh ... Indian Dancer
Tie-long Shang ... Jin
Jun-ying Shen ... Crossroad Hooker
Zi-liang Shi ... Man at the Party
Dipender Singh ... Indian Dancer
Jitender Singh ... Indian Dancers
Alpa Solanki ... Indian Dancer
Pearl Sukhadia ... Indian Dancer
Sunil Veerbahadur ... Indian Dancer
Ying Wu ... Crossroad Hooker
Jing Xu ... Ground Crew
Han Zhang ... Hsian Ping
Jia-yi Zhang ... Crossroad Hooker
Ming Zhang ... Producer's Girlfriend #1
Xiao-tian Zhang ... Crossroad Hooker
Ye Zhang ... Crossroad Hooker
Yi-qun Zhang ... Press Conference MC
Jing Zhou ... Crossroad Hooker
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Directed by
Peter Chan 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Oi Wah Lam 
Raymond To 

Produced by
Peter Chan .... producer
Zoe Chen .... co-producer
Andre Morgan .... producer
 
Original Music by
Peter Kam 
Leon Ko 
 
Cinematography by
Christopher Doyle 
Peter Pau 
 
Film Editing by
Chi-Leung Kwong 
Wenders Li 
 
Production Design by
Chung Man Yee 
 
Art Direction by
Pater Wong 
 
Costume Design by
Dora Ng 
 
Production Management
Tze Hung Lam .... production manager
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Wah Lee Chiu .... first assistant director
Chiu Wah Lee .... first assistant director
Felicia Tang .... first assistant director
 
Sound Department
Terry Shek .... sound effects editor
 
Stunts
Wei Tung .... stunt coordinator
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Sung Fai Choi .... camera operator
Bo-Wing He .... aerial crane grip: beijing unit
Patrick Ho .... camera & lighting department coordinator
Po Wing Ho .... dolly grip: Beijing scenes
Louis Jong .... key grip
 
Other crew
Farah Khan .... choreographer
Zheng Min .... production secretary
 

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
"Perhaps Love" - International (English title)
"Isos agapi" - Greece (festival title)
"Perhaps Love" - Germany (DVD title)
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Runtime:
108 min
Country:
China | Malaysia | Hong Kong
Language:
Mandarin | Cantonese | English
Color:
Color (Fujicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 See more »
Sound Mix:
DTS | Dolby Digital
Certification:
Singapore:PG | Malaysia:U | South Korea:12 | Australia:PG
Filming Locations:
Beijing, ChinaSee more »
Company:
Applause PicturesSee more »

Did You Know?

Trivia:
Jin-hee Ji's role as the angel was offered to Andy Lau originally.See more »

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6 out of 6 people found the following review useful.
Life is a movie - with deleted scenes and added songs, 2 April 2006
Author: TrevorAclea from London, England

Peter Chan's Perhaps Love is an intriguing Chinese/Hong Kong/Malaysian backstage musical built around the notion of life as a movie where we constantly edit our memories and that, while we are all the leading players in our personal movie, we're no more than bit parts rather than co-stars in anybody else's and that consequently life is full of abandoned subplots and deleted footage. With the huge amount of mutual crossover between local pop stars and Hong Kong movies, it's surprising there have been so few movie musicals from that part of the world, but they're thin enough on the ground for this to be marketed as the first Chinese musical in 40 years. Only it's not 'really' a musical - like most modern musicals, it tries to disguise the fact it's a musical by setting its drama against the making of a movie musical as Takeshi Kaneshiro has to come to terms with the fact that the great love of his life (Zhao Xun, excellent in a virtual dual role) has completely edited him out of her memory because to her the past is only useful as a reminder of what to get away from. Her present is Jacky Cheung's director with Fellini syndrome (he can't see what he really wants to do with his film), and she's already rewriting that relationship in expectation of a Hollywood deal. Through it all wanders Ji Jin-hee's angelic keeper of discarded footage, an occasional observer rather than an active participant.

Hong Kong's failed official entry for the Best Foreign Film Oscar, it's a lavishly mounted affair, with beautiful photography and great design. There are some visual influences from Jacques Demy (most notably an overhead shot of multi-coloured umbrellas) and more overtly in the circus scenes Moulin Rouge, although thankfully the musical numbers are much better shot than Luhrman's effort, and without resorting to excessive ADDS editing. Peter Kam's songs may occasionally sound a little odd to Western ears (although the HK DVD thankfully subtitles the lyrics, a rarity in musicals), but they're surprisingly impressive and memorable, and for the most part well-served by the cast. Kaneshiro may have the face of an angel but he also has the singing voice of Lee Marvin, although since his songs aren't written for a trained voice that's not a major problem. However, Jacky Cheung is quite a revelation to anyone only aware of his work as an actor – not only does he have the strongest voice among the cast, but its the one that puts the real emotional power into his numbers. Its appeal to Western audiences is probably limited to fans of Wong Kar-Wei's brand of morally compromised romanticism, although this is not as exhilarating or daring as the best of Wong, it has more than enough imagination and emotional resonance of its own to make it well worth checking out.

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