Days of Being Wild

Original title: Ah fei jing juen

IMDb RATING

7.4/10

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Maggie Cheung, Leslie Cheung, and Carina Lau in Days of Being Wild (1990)

A man tries to find out who his real mother is after the woman who raised him tells him the truth.

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A man tries to find out who his real mother is after the woman who raised him tells him the truth.A man tries to find out who his real mother is after the woman who raised him tells him the truth.A man tries to find out who his real mother is after the woman who raised him tells him the truth.

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

7.4/10

26K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 17 wins & 9 nominations

Trivia
The film was supposed to be the first part of a project. But due to its relatively poor performance at the box office when it was first released, the producers decided not to finish the second part. The nameless character that appears in the last scene played by Tony Leung Chiu-wai is supposedly the main character in the second part.

Goofs
When Tide checks into the hotel, the hotel manageress hands him the key to Room 206. However, in the next scene, Tide uses the key to enter Room 204. This, however, may not be so much a 'goof' as another recurrence of the number '2046' seen so often in Wong Kar-Wai's films.

Quotes
Yuddy: I used to think there was a kind of bird that, once born, would keep flying until death. The fact is that the bird hasn't gone anywhere. It was dead from the beginning.

Alternate versions
A different 35mm print of the film features an altered prologue sequence and different edits during the final scenes of the film. This version decreases the length of the film from 95 to 94 minutes.

Connections
Featured in Still Love You After All These (1997)

Soundtracks
Jungle Drums (Cantonese cover)
Music by Ernesto Lecuona & J. Cacabas
Lyrics by Sharon Chung
Performed by Anita Mui

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Featured review

10/10

My favorite Wong Kar Wai movie

I guess the main reason that this is my favorite WKW movie is that it's one of the least abstract of his movies and I feel like the viewer becomes more emotionally involved with the characters because of that. The music, as always with WKW, is wonderful and the cinematography is fine, I especially like all the shots of the lush tropical forests. It isn't as beautifully photographed as many of his later films like chungking express and in the mood for love. And it doesn't feature much of the fancy techniques that WKW likes to employ in movies like fallen angels or happy together. Still I think this is my favorite of Wong Kar Wai's movies, not necessarily the best, but the one I enjoy the most. Highly Recommended.