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Wong Kar-Wai
57 credited titles on WatchWise
Wong Kar-wai (王家衛, born July 17, 1958) is a Hong Kong film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is internationally celebrated for his atmospheric, highly stylized cinema centered on themes of longing, romance, memory, and temporal transience. His major film and television credits include As Tears Go By (1988), Days of Being Wild (1990), Chungking Express (1994), Fallen Angels (1995), Happy Together (1997), In the Mood for Love (2000), 2046 (2004), The Grandmaster (2013), and the television series Blossoms Shanghai (2023).
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Commercial performance
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1.6x return · 58% of films profitable · trending down · little recent work. Weighted toward recent releases (a film counts half as much every 6 years) and toward titles they actually carried.
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