2046

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1 Introduction

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Introduction

Possibly the most highly anticipated film from Hong Kong this year is undoubtedly the brand new piece from Wong Kar Wai, one of the world's most acclaimed directors. Five years in the making and starring some of the biggest stars in Asia, 2046 is not merely a film, it is a cultural event of 2004.

With a cast featuring Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Maggie Cheung, Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi, Carina Lau, Faye Wong and Kimura Takuya one cannot deny the star power in this project, but the spotlight is really on Wong. His usual production collaborators such as production designer and editor William Cheng and cinematographer Christopher Doyle are back on board for this ride into the world that only Wong Kar Wai can conjure. Is 2046 a hotel room number? A train to the future? A memory? The year before China’s fifty-year of self-governing promise for Hong Kong expires? In many ways, it is all of the above, but also none of the above. Like all previous Wong films, it is the journey, and not the destination that matters, and all these inhabitants in his film are haunted not by the fear of the future but by the pain of the past.

Loosely a sequel to Wong's previous film, In the Mood for Love, Tony Leung once again plays writer Chow Mo Wan, but he is nothing like the Chow Mo Wan from the previous film. Now Chow has become a womanizer who writes soft pornographic stories to sustain his boozing habits. In the film we see his various relationships with a group of women: Black Spider (Gong Li) in Singapore, whose real name, Su Li Zhen, is the same as slz 1960 (Maggie Cheung), his lover in In The Mood for Love. His friendship with Mimi (Carina Lau reprising a previous WKW role), Wang Jing Wen (Faye Wong), the daughter of the motel owner who is in love with a Japanese man (Kimura Takuya) and his illicit affair with callgirl Bai Ling (Zhang Ziyi), a resident in room 2046. Is Chow Mo Wan really a completely different character, existing in a parallel world to In the Mood for Love, or is he really the same character but is now completely destroyed by a failed romance?

With Cheng's luscious art direction, Doyle's stunning cinematography, a hypnotic soundtrack by Peer Raben and Shigeru Umebayashi, as well as stunning performances from the cast, 2046, is the latest masterpiece from writer/producer/director Wong Kar Wai. The story is presented to you, and it's up to you to find its own meaning.

Awards for 2046

2004 Nominated Golden Palm Kar Wai Wong

2005 Nominated CEC Award Best Foreign Film (Mejor Película Extranjera)

2005 Nominated David Best Foreign Film (Miglior Film Straniero) Kar Wai Wong

2005 Nominated DGGB Award Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Foreign Language Film Kar Wai Wong

2004 Won Screen International Award Kar Wai Wong France/China.

2004 Won Golden Horse Award Best Art Direction:William Chang & Alfred Yau

2004 Won Golden Horse Award Best Original Film Score: Shigeru Umebayashi & Peer Raben

2005 Won Hong Kong Film Award

                                                     Best Actor:Tony Leung Chiu Wa

                                                     Best Actress:Ziyi Zhang

                                                     Best Art Direction:William Chang & Alfred Yau

                                                     Best Cinematography:Christopher Doyle&Yiu-Fai Lai&Pung-Leung Kwan

                                                     Best Costume Design and Make-Up:William Chang

                                                     Best Original Film Score:Peer Raben & Shigeru Umebayash

       Nominated       Hong Kong Film Award          Best Director:Kar Wai Wong
                                                     Best Editing:William Chang 
                                                     Best Picture
                                                     Best Screenplay:Kar Wai Wong
                                                     Best Sound Effects:Claude Letessier & Du-Che Tu 
                                                     Best Visual Effects:Guillaume Raffi&Sonia Holst&Nadir Benhassaine&Nicolas Bonnell

2005 Won HKFCS Award Best Actor:Tony Leung Chiu Wai

                                                     Best Actress:Ziyi Zhang 
                                                     Film of Merit

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Title

English:

2046

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Year

2004

Release date America: Aug. 5, 2005 — New York/Los Angeles

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Cast

Tony Leung Chiu-Wai
Gong Li
Takuya Kimura
Faye Wong
Zhang Ziyi
Carina Lau
Chang Chen
Wang Sum
Siu Ping-Lam
Maggie Cheung Man-Yuk
Thongchai McIntyre
Dong Jie
Miao Feilin
Farini Cheung
Berg Ng

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Director

Wong Kar-Wai

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Producer

Wong Kar-Wai
Zhang Yimou
Eric Heumann
Amedeo Panaghi
Mark Sillam

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Writer

Wong Kar-Wai

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Production

Mei Ah

In America:

Sony Pictures Classics

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Duration

129 Minutes

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Genre

Martial Arts, Drama

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Summaries

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He was a writer. He thought he wrote about the future but it really was the past. In his novel, a mysterious train left for 2046 every once in a while. Everyone who went there had the same intention....to recapture their lost memories. It was said that in 2046, nothing ever changed. Nobody knew for sure if it was true, because nobody who went there had ever come back - except for one. He was there. He chose to leave. He wanted to change.

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