Hong Kong in step-printed slow motion, from As Tears Go By to The Grandmaster.
A triad and his reckless little brother; Wong's first film, and the most conventional.
Norah Jones drives across America after a breakup; Wong's English-language road film.
A wuxia of exiled swordsmen in a desert, cut and recut for years; Christopher Doyle's desert light.
Ip Man between the wars, in the rain; Wong's martial-arts epic.
A hitman, his agent and a mute who breaks into shops at night; Chungking Express after dark.
Two men from Hong Kong falling apart in Buenos Aires; Wong Kar-wai and the Iguazu falls.
A writer in a Hong Kong hotel and a science-fiction train to 2046; the sequel to In the Mood for Love.
Leslie Cheung as a playboy in 1960 Hong Kong; the first of Wong Kar-wai's loose trilogy.
Two Hong Kong cops and two women, canned pineapple and "California Dreamin'"; Wong Kar-wai's pop masterpiece.
Two neighbours in 1962 Hong Kong fall in love by never saying so.
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