Wong Kar-wai BBS (traditional Chinese: 王家衛; pinyin: Wáng Jiāwèi; Cantonese Yale: Wòhng Gà Waih; born 17 July 1958) is an award-winning Hong Kong filmmaker, internationally renowned as an auteur for his visually unique, highly stylized films. Wong was listed at number three on the respected Sight & Sound Top Ten Directors list of modern times.
Born in Shanghai, he moved to Hong Kong with his parents at the age of five. Coming from the Mainland and...
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Wong Kar-wai BBS (traditional Chinese: 王家衛; pinyin: Wáng Jiāwèi; Cantonese Yale: Wòhng Gà Waih; born 17 July 1958) is an award-winning Hong Kong filmmaker, internationally renowned as an auteur for his visually unique, highly stylized films. Wong was listed at number three on the respected Sight & Sound Top Ten Directors list of modern times.
Born in Shanghai, he moved to Hong Kong with his parents at the age of five. Coming from the Mainland and speaking only Mandarin and Shanghainese, he had a difficult period of adjustment to Cantonese speaking Hong Kong, spending hours in movie theatres with his mother. After graduating from Hong Kong Polytechnic College in graphic design in 1980, he enrolled in the Production Training Course organized by Hong Kong Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) and became a full-time television screenwriter. In the mid-1980s, he became a screenwriter/director at The Wing Scope Co. and In-gear Film Production Company, the production houses owned by renowned...
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