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Overview

User Rating:
7.5/10   17,829 votes
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Director:
Writer:
Kar Wai Wong (screenplay)
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Release Date:
29 September 2004 (Hong Kong) more
Tagline:
Where everything ends... and begins (Spanish translation) more
Plot:
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... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
22 wins & 30 nominations more
NewsDesk:
Jones Has Perfect Acting Aura
 (From WENN. 31 May 2006)

User Comments:
Truly romantic film for the matured, bitter homage to Hong Kong more (200 total)

Cast

  (in credits order)

Tony Leung Chiu Wai ... Chow Mo-wan (as Tony Leung)
Li Gong ... Su Li-zhen
Faye Wong ... Wang Jing-wen / Android
Takuya Kimura ... Tak / Wang Jing-wen's Boyfriend

Ziyi Zhang ... Bai Ling
Carina Lau ... Lulu / Mimi / Android
Chen Chang ... Mimi's Boyfriend
Jie Dong ... Wang Jie-wen

Maggie Cheung ... Su Li-zhen
Thongchai McIntyre ... Bird (as Bird Thongchai McIntyre)
Wang Sum ... Mr. Wang / Train Captain
Ping Lam Siu ... Ah Ping
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Ting Yip Ng ... (unconfirmed)
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Directed by
Kar Wai Wong 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Kar Wai Wong  screenplay

Produced by
Wai-Chung Chan .... line producer
Ye-cheng Chan .... executive producer
Gilles Ciment .... co-executive producer
Eric Heumann .... co-producer
Stéphane Kooshmanian .... associate producer
Amedeo Pagani .... co-producer
Zhong-lun Ren .... executive producer
Marc Sillam .... co-producer
Kar Wai Wong .... producer
 
Original Music by
Shigeru Umebayashi 
 
Cinematography by
Christopher Doyle 
 
Film Editing by
William Chang  (as William Chang Suk Ping)
 
Production Design by
William Chang  (as William Chang Suk Ping)
 
Art Direction by
Alfred Yau 
 
Costume Design by
William Chang 
 
Production Management
Olivier Chiavassa .... production manager
Chiu Wah Lee .... production manager
Helen Li .... production manager
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Shin-shi Hui .... second second assistant director
Johnnie Kong .... assistant director
Ji-wei Kuan .... first assistant director
Shao-hua Li .... assistant director
Rosanna Ng .... second assistant director
 
Art Department
Ping Lam Siu .... property master
 
Sound Department
Michael Baird .... sound designer
Yu Teng Hsu .... boom operator
Claude Letessier .... supervising sound designer
Du-Che Tu .... sound designer (as Tu Duu Chih)
 
Visual Effects by
Johnny Alves .... digital effects artist
Florent Andorra .... digital artist
Jérôme Arthuis .... processing: DuboiColor
François-Xavier Aubague .... visual effects supervisor
Christophe Belena .... coordinator scans/recording/color grading: Duboicolor
Nadir Benhassaine .... visual effects coordinator: BUF Compagnie
Mélodie Boileau .... visual effects coordinator
Nicolas Bonnell .... visual effects producer: BUF
Coralie Boulay .... visual effects editor
Florent Cadel .... digital artist
Nicolas Daniel .... video operator: Duboicolor
Sébastien Drouin .... visual effects supervisor
Laurent Gillet .... visual effects: Buf Compagnie
Rip Hampton O'Neil .... technical director: Duboicolor (as Rip O'Neil)
Sonia Holst .... visual effects coordinator: Buf Compagnie
Abdel Ali Kassou .... processing: DuboiColor
Didier le Fouest .... digital colorist (as Didier Le Fouest)
Damien Macé .... compositor
Karine Marchandou .... digital grading manager
Philippe Palmieri .... digital artist
Xavier Perol .... digital artist
Boris Plateau .... digital compositor
Olivier Pron .... concept artist
Olivier Pron .... digital artist
Guillaume Raffi .... visual effects coordinator: Buf Compagnie
Sebastien Rame .... digital compositor
Eddy Richard .... digital artist: BUF
Mathilde Tollec .... digital artist
Daniel Trujillo .... digital artist
Jean-Marc van Rijswick .... digital artist: BUF
David Verbeke .... visual effects supervisor
Dominique Vidal .... visual effects: BUF
Sophie Gateau .... digital artist (uncredited)
 
Stunts
Wei Tung .... stunt coordinator
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Ian Freeman .... grip
Pung-Leung Kwan .... director of photography: second unit
Yiu-Fai Lai .... director of photography: second unit
Chi Ming Wong .... gaffer (as Wong Chi Ming)
 
Editorial Department
Serge Anthony .... color timer (as Serge Antony)
Fabien Pascal .... color timer
Laurent Pelé .... assistant editor
 
Other crew
Stephanie Cheung .... production secretary
 

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
2046 - Der ultimative Liebesfilm (Germany)
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MPAA:
Rated R for sexual content.
Runtime:
129 min
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The camera points to the left side of Faye Wong's face when she cries. She has problems crying with her right eye, so Wong Kar-Wai shot her crying scenes on the left side of her face. However, there is one scene where the camera films the right side of her face purposely. more
Quotes:
Chow Mo Wan: I have a secret to tell you. Will you leave with me? more
Movie Connections:
References Tian xia wu shuang (2002) more
Soundtrack:
Siboney more

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52 out of 85 people found the following comment useful.
Truly romantic film for the matured, bitter homage to Hong Kong, 2 November 2004
10/10
Author: Masako-2 from Tokyo, Japan

The movie was well above my expectation and definitely worth a wait. Tony Leung plays the same man with "In the Mood for Love" but has a different character. The movie is also vaguely related to "Days of Being Wild" in 1990, co-starred by Leslie Cheung and Maggie Cheng. All three films are about the mixture of hustle-bustle and weariness of Hong Kong in 1960s.

Tony's performance in this film was again brilliant. Faye Wong performed in WKW film for the first time in 10 years (since "Chung King Express" in 1994, also co-starred by Tony Leung) and made this film one of a kind. Mysterious gambler Gong Li was also attractive. Zhang Ziyi gave me a positive surprise. The film's technical level (costumes, music, photography etc.) is also very high. Someone suggested 2004 Cannes Palm d'Or should have gone to this film instead of "Fahrenheit 9/11" and now I can totally agree.

The number "2046" is the metaphor of Hong Kong's destiny, which implies the last year of status-quo for 50 years guaranteed by Chinese government.

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