Days of Being Wild (A Fei zheng chuan) (1990)
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90% of critics liked it
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86% of users liked it
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Set in 1960, the film center of the young, boyishly handsome Yuddy (Leslie Cheung), who learns from the drunken ex-prostitute who raised him that she is not his real mother. Hoping to hold onto him, she refuses to divulge the name of his real birth mother. The revelation shakes Yuddy to his very… More Set in 1960, the film center of the young, boyishly handsome Yuddy (Leslie Cheung), who learns from the drunken ex-prostitute who raised him that she is not his real mother. Hoping to hold onto him, she refuses to divulge the name of his real birth mother. The revelation shakes Yuddy to his very core, unleashing a cascade of conflicting emotions. Two women have the bad luck to fall for Yuddy. One is a quiet lass who works at a sport arena named Su Lizhen (Maggie Cheung), while the other is a glitzy showgirl named Mimi (Carina Lau). Perhaps due to his unresolved Oedipal issues, he passively lets the two compete for him, unable or unwilling to make a choice. As Lizhen slowly confides her frustration to a cop named Tide (Andy Lau), he falls for her. The same is true for Yuddy's friend Zeb (Jacky Cheung), who falls for Mimi. Later, Yuddy learns of his birth mother's whereabouts and heads out to the Philippines. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi
- Directed By
- Kar Wai Wong
- Genres
- Drama, Romance, Art House & International, Mystery & Suspense
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Mar 13, 1990 Wide
- Studio
- Rim
Critic Reviews
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Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star
Needless to say a must-see for Wongcolytes, Days of Being Wild is also an excellent entry point for people who haven't yet caught this most exotic and habit-forming of cinematic bugs.
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Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle
Every shot is perfectly composed and compelling, with light and shadow manipulated to maximum effect.
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John Hartl, Seattle Times
It now seems like a promising apprentice work, almost a blueprint for the writer-director's most acclaimed and famous film, In the Mood for Love.
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Ty Burr, Boston Globe
There are images in Days that can make your heart stop for no other reason than that they're perfect.
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Desson Thomson, Washington Post
It may have been released in the olden days of 1991, but Wong Kar-Wai's Days of Being Wild remains pulsatingly contemporary.
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Cast
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Leslie Cheung
as Yuddy
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Maggie Cheung
as Su Lizhen
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Andy Lau
as Tide
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Jacky Cheung
as Zeb
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Carina Lau
as Leung Fung-ying
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Rebecca Pan
as Rebecca (as Tik-Wa Poon)
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Tony Leung Chiu Wai
as Chow Mo-wan
