Wong Kar-wai's Film Style

Wong Kar-wai, a unique Hong Kong film director, is famous for his unique film style. His films are often regarded as highly abstract reality, showing profound themes and delicate characters' hearts through fragmented pictures.

Wong Kar-wai's films often take the city as the background, showing the prosperity and loneliness of the city. He has a deep understanding of the city, and has built an abstract and real world through the symbolic elements such as crowded chungking mansions, dark blue sky divided by high-rise buildings, apartment windows where airplanes take off and land.

Wong Kar-wai's films have a unique view of time in narration. His movie scenes often present a suspended state in the past and future of time, emphasizing the concept of time through details, such as the opening in The True Story of Teddy Boy and the repeated telling of dates in Chongqing forest.

Wong Kar-wai's films are also unique in visual effects. He often cooperates with photographer Du Kefeng and production designer Zhang Shuping, forming a cooperation mode called the Iron Triangle. Their cooperation has made Wong Kar-wai's films more beautiful on the screen, and Du Kefeng's photography techniques, such as hand-held and semi-hidden, have also become their symbols.

Director profile

Wong Kar-wai was born in Shanghai, China. Born in Dinghai, Zhejiang (now Dinghai District, Zhoushan City). Graduated from the Graphic Design Department of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China is a male director, screenwriter and producer.

1982, he wrote his first screenplay "Colorful Clouds" and officially entered the film circle. 1988, the first film "Tears Running" was released, and was nominated for best director in the 8th Hong Kong Film Awards. 1990 directed the feature film The True Story of Teddy Boy, for which he won the Best Director Award of 10 Hong Kong Film Awards and the Best Director Award of the 28th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards.

1994 directed the feature film "Chongqing Forest" and won the best director award of 14 Hong Kong Film Awards. 1996, directed the film fallen angels.