What are your 5 favourite Tony movies?

[Tony Grrl]

Nah! Go on give a them a go! Bound sure to like the Tony ones any way!!
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[theroane]

I'm new, and I've only seen about 15 of his films, but here we go so far--

1. Hero
2. Dr. Mack ("Let It Be Me"--in English--sigh!)
3. Happy Together (he should have won at Cannes for this one)
4. In the Mood for Love
5. Tokyo Raiders

I'll be interested tosee how this list changes as I see more of his films.....

[hamberger362]

IT'S HARD FOR ME TO CHOOSE 5 FAVOURITE MOVIES. BUT THERE ARE FIVE MOVIES , I AWALYS TAKE TO WATCH. 1. TOKYO RAIDER 2. CHINESE ODESSYS 2002 3.MY LUCKY STAR 4. SOUND OF COLOUR 5. LOVE ME LOVE MY MONEY

[pran]

hello hamberger362!!! Are you remember me? I will tell you that your favourite movies is similar my favourite movies. Espectially sound of colors that I and my husband like this movies very much. I like it Because it is very romantic and tony so cute (very very much). When I and my husband watch this movies we feel (more) love because this movies teach me that love make the people happy and warm although that people is a blind or normal. Thank you again for your help to find this movies at KIM. bye bye.

[hamberger362]

HI, PRAN, I'M GLAD TO SPEAK WITH YOU AGAIN. ACTUALLY, I LOVE OLD TVB SERIES,TOO. EXAMPLE HAP HAK HANG<IN THIS SERIES TONY SO FUNNY> AND THE GRAND CANAL IS THE BEST SERIES <TONY LOOKS GREAT > ON 23 DECEMBER DON' MISS 2046 . I WILL GO TO WATCH CERTAINLY. PRAN, MAY I HAVE YOUR EMAIL?

[pran]

Hi!! hamberger362,my e-mail is prodeprana@yahoo.com I will tell you that I like tony in Grand Canal too and now I rent it (partI) from the shop near my home. Talk about 2046, I have waited for along time and I alway know some bad news about it that it is postpone(I alway check by call to EGV's call center). Are you sure that it's coming on 23 december? And where?(EGV,MAJORCINEPLEX,SFX or LIDO) If you sure I think it's a good news for me and I will see certainly. Hamberger I forget to tell you ,KIM's seller phone to me and tell me that can order 2046 with subtitle english at his shop. bye bye

[hamberger362]

HI,PRAN, THANK YOU FOR THE EMAIL. MY EMAIL IS HAMBERGER362@YAHOO.COM THE 2046 IN THE THEATRE ON 23 DECEMBER I CHECKED ON WWW.SIAMZONE.COM. THERE ARE DETAILS AND DATE OF MANY MOVIES. HOWEVER, WE HAVE TO WAIT AND READ IT IN NEWSPAPERS AGAIN. I DON'T MISS 2046 CERTAINLY.BYE

[Yuki]

1. Blind Romance: He looks so handsome and kawaii in this movie. Who can forget about that killing wink he gave Chingmy when he offered her a ride home but she only had her head down with the plant in her hands. That wink threw me off into a daze

2. Lucky Encounter: I like this movie simply because Tony's character is very funny here. I also adore that little yellow car that Tony always calls "fai por, or buut por". My favorite scene from this movie would be the part where Cheap Chan (Anthony Wong) ran over the yellow car with his car. Loved the pissed-off expression of Tony.

3. Seoul Raiders: His character here is just so witty and I love his sense of humor.

4. '97 Aces Go Places: He does good in every movie and I like this movie because it was a comedy relief for me. I like the IQ quizes that he gives to Chu Kit Yee in this movie.

5. Don't Fool Me: Luv it just because it's a comedy with both Tony and Andy. And it was the first movie I ever heard Tony swearing in english haha
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[7thclouds]

My Tony movie my favorite 5 are...

1.2046
Please see my comments/review in my posts in this forum http://www.tonyleung.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2855
and my review in IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212712/usercomments-54
Watching the film is feeling like living at the bottom of destroyed lake ....
In feeling the stint of the light of the possibility of love again...
Reviving process in the stint of the possibility of love and universal love

(For the movies that I count below, I have not written full-review and post yet and but I will to this forum and IMDB at some point!)

2.Chong qing sen lin (KOI SURU WAKU SEI - 恋する惑星）
The very first love in Tony.
The sweet indulge in living in the shadow of the days in searching the memories of kisses, touches of each other who loved at the same time and the same place....

The splendid edge in starting the new days for the humming of love

3. Sad City (非情城市）
The overwhelming Tony's expression.
Pain, anger, modest joy in love, sadness and determination to live in humane dignity and belief under such irrational situation which forced everyone - I mean everyone whichever stands in the era - suppressed.

The humane grace in knowing the destination.
The Tony at the train station in this film....is the one of the scene that I won’t forget in my whole life.

4. Happy Together (ブエノスアイレス）
I watched this film in 1997 or 1998...and last month again.
I have not written my full-review yet and I will write my review to movie review in this site and IMDB at some point...
I have different impression between the time when I watched before and this year (last month).
One thing I can say here is that...
The suppressed feeling and thick atmosphere which fully suffocated Tony, the film and audience were definitely crucial part of the film that gives audience the core of what WKW assumes love in the worst from.

Or say, there could be some sort of mal-catharsis even in the form of obsessions in non-mutual relationship. One always tears; other always cares.... and is happy? pretending happy？

And such persistent deep hot thick suffocations finally
leads to the real relief.
At the ending of the film
the beginning of the real mutual love
splendidly opens up with the melody.

Wonder, is everyone qualified to love and to be loved even without determining to give love but seek love from others?

I don’t think so.

But still the former part of this film persistently pressed everyone to ask himself/herself,
is there any pocket for anyone to be indulged into giving into something irrational even in knowing its irrational?

Is there any pocket for anyone or everyone to seek someone who forces you to give in irrationally?

The answer is, for me, no.... but for anyone else, I don’t know.

Such adhesive non-exit ponders was lashing in my mind...
The helplessness in such situation in this film's former part never leaves from my body even....with the feeling of suffocations and the certain anger against such irrationality in the form of pleasure in being, unfairly, exploited....
That was my impression when I watched this film in 1997 or 1998 firstly.

Actually, now I know, it was reflection of the real feeling of suffocations which all casts/stuffs had had in the process of filming....
I watched the documentary with huge alternative cuts, the Zero Centigrade and became to know...how hard the filming situation and, like or not, that gives the film the sense of unceasing pressures.

(oh...mmmm....by the way, in case if there is any risk of any misunderstanding...
Love exists between guy-guy or guy-girl/girl-girl that are all love. Off course.
Then I did not think of and did not think of mentioning about that factor....you know.... love is love ...no matter how guy-guy or girl-girl or guy-girl...off course! there is no difference between! no discrimination should be on any gay couple...discrimination on gay couples had emerged from certain unvocal motif in encouraging life-proliferation in seeking of supplying solders ...which is nothing do with love. as we all know...life-proliferation is nothing do with love)

5.Doctor Mack (uramachi no seija - 裏町の聖者）
Could have been criticised as sort of stero-typed hero movie
But I really love this movie
since the Tony was, (or shall I say the Mack was/is) very much determined in living with people who tend to be left behind AND he just wants to be just as he is with his maximum goodness for himself and all naturally. And all in all, Tony's existence in this film with his, I think, personality that avoids attentions or reputation but seeks what he wants to do as humane good and his expression details wisely naturally saved this film from something which is same old story.

I really like the warmth in this film.
Even such natural idealism and humane endeavour without strains may have been rarely seen in real world...still this gives hope in humane.

(5. The days of being wild)
5 -
Sound of Colours,
Infernal Affairs 1(have not watched 2 and 3 yet),
Tokyo Raiders, Seoul Raiders...
Xing nan xin nan di (tsukihono negai - 月夜の願い）....
Three Summers...etc...mmm..

*Somewhere between 2-7 or else...
In the mood of love...

The film is very much exquisitely vividly highly composed.
Each cut strictly sticks to each depth in aim to shoot ...how one cut tells what, well say any film is or should be though.

Shall I call the film the beauty of the completeness in composition in filming.

The Tony is the quite different Tony that I also cannot stop loving.
The Tony was just like a body function.
In the mood of love, Tony was in the middle of the process of digestion of his hate and anger in his body. The hate leads to, maybe sadly, strong will to search the anwswer to his why.
At the end of the day, what the Tony, or Chow, meant to reach was that some sort of understanding in struggling to see the point where the woman he loved had wrongly reached, such irrationality.
On the way in reaching to the point, Chow divert his way and found himself in reaching to his rationality.
Tony, Chow, finds such irrationality in digesting hate/anger aiming at reaching to the point of irationality is no use since Tony wants to love, not hate. He wants to love in rationlity.
But he faced with another why at the time when he thought he found and determined divert from irrationality to ANOTHER rationality.
Chow digested his hate and surprisingly cherish remained after his hate in his body. The cherish was closs-overed with love....closering to the love which reminded him/her the love paralysed him/her before.
She, however, just confined herself into the feeling of cherish because of fear. His cherish gives her, ironically, some conviction to live more in her rationality in irrationality. His cherish gives himself more strength in loving more than before. Ironically? No.

BTW, well anyway it is difficult thing to align the Tony films that I love...and I actually forgot to put IMFL...
I am not sure if I place In the mood of love yet ...
It could be between 1 and 2 or anywhere around 2- 7 or else...
Say, at this moment, the countdown on the basis of the degree how far I love the Tony film... from many poits of view...mmm... well, IMFL is IMFL.

good night
love
7thclouds (mari t)
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[wan yu]

oh man..its so hard 2 decide >.<..lolss jus luv all of his movies.. my favourite wong kar wai movie wld b chungking express =) its great.. d followin r my choices..

1.infernal affairs 1, 2[although he didn't rilly appear init] & 3
[he is so charming, handsome n cute in infernal affairs ^^]
2.chinese odessy
3.chungking express
4.my lucky star
5.tokyo raiders & seoul raiders

man, dat was hard 2 choose~..sigh, 2 bad i didn't gt a chance 2 watch happy 2 gather n dr mack =(

[Desiree2]

I have to agree with Wan Yu, not easy to say...

1) Happy together
2) Chungking Express
3) Infernal Affairs III
4) Infernal Affairs I
5) The Tigers (he is so cute childish)
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[Desiree2]

[Evie]

Let me see....

1. Happy Together (I just can't get enough of this movie!)
2. 2046
3. Chunking Express (classic!)
4. ITMFL
5. Hero (I especially like his looks in this movie!)

[Pungyo]

From the movies that I've been able to see... and I can't get a hold of a couple of his new ones...

1. Hard Boiled
2. Hero
3. Chunking Express
4. In the Mood for Love
5. Dr. Mack

And not necessarily in that order. Can't wait to see 2046!!!!!!!

-K
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[chamsubak]

1 Chungking Express

2. Days of being wild

3. Sad City

4. Tom, Dick, and Harry

5. Ashies of times