Wong Kar-wai

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Type

Person

Country

HK

Active from

1958-07-17

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

609

Total plays

10,647

Wong Kar-wai, is a Hong Kong-based film director known for his unique, highly visual style of romantic art films. An internationally renowned auteur, he often wears dark sunglasses in public. Wong Kar Wai is an unusual artist in Hong Kong’s film industry. After his first few feature films, he was acknowledged as one of the most exciting Asian “auteurs” of his day and one of the most influential directors of contemporary cinema. Born in 1958 in Shanghai, he and his family emigrated to Hong Kong

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,383x

2. ModelFinder: fast model selection for accurate phylogenetic estimates

   · 2017 · cited 16,419x

3. Early Transmission Dynamics in Wuhan, China, of Novel Coronavirus–Infected Pneumonia

   · 2020 · cited 11,535x

4. Human Breast Cancer: Correlation of Relapse and Survival with Amplification of the HER-2/<i>neu</i>Oncogene

   · 1987 · cited 9,310x

5. Prevalence, Severity, and Comorbidity of 12-Month DSM-IV Disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication

   · 2005 · cited 8,867x

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Quotes

• “I like Latin American literature a lot and I’ve always thought Latin American, and Italian people are very close to Chinese, especially the women — jealousies, passion, family values, it’s very close.”
• “Of course, people are more affected by actors or acting. But as a filmmaker, I need some logic. And this was my logic in making these two films, and how I connected these stories and these films together. People say my films don’t have any plot or storyline, but in my logic there is a storyline.”
• “We always put something in front of the camera because we wanted to create the feeling that the audience was one of the neighbors and was always observing or watching these two people. And the color is so vivid because everything from memory is vivid—it’s beautiful because it’s very close to your mind.”
• “It takes less effort to stream a film at home these days. However, streaming should not fundamentally affect how a film is made, as long as the pleasure of watching films doesn’t change, and we as filmmakers continue to serve that purpose.”

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Key dates

Born

17 July 1958

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Family name

Wang

Gender

male

Citizenship

British Hong Kong

Place of birth

Shanghai

Occupation

film producer

Educated at

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Languages spoken

Chinese

Movement

Hong Kong New Wave

Image

Wong Kar-wai Berlin cropped.jpg

Residence

Shanghai

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