Happy Together

Original title: Chun gwong ja sit

1997
15
1h 36m

IMDb RATING

7.7/10

36K

YOUR RATING

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Drama Romance

A couple take a trip to Argentina but both men find their lives drifting apart in opposite directions.A couple take a trip to Argentina but both men find their lives drifting apart in opposite directions.A couple take a trip to Argentina but both men find their lives drifting apart in opposite directions.

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IMDb RATING

7.7/10

36K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 7 wins & 20 nominations total

Lai Yiu-fai
(as Tony Chiu Wai Leung)

Chang Chen

Chang

Gregory Dayton

Lover

Shirley Kwan

Fai's Girlfriend
(scenes deleted)

Director
- Wong Kar-Wai
Writers
- Wong Kar-Wai
- Manuel Puig
All cast & crew
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Storyline

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Trivia
Chang Chen's storyline was completely improvised. Director Wong Kar-Wai discovered the restaurant, China Central, by chance and, seizing Leslie Cheung's absence due to a concert tour, decided to keep shooting. Chang's plot was thus created.

Goofs
When Po-Wing knocks the packs of cigarettes off the clock, it says 2:38, but then it cuts to another angle of him doing this with the clock saying 3:33, and then it cuts again to the clock saying 2:38.

Quotes
Lai Yiu-fai: Turns out that lonely people are all the same.

Crazy credits
In some prints, Jacques Picoux (the French subtitle translator) is listed twice in a row in the closing credits.

Alternate versions
During a fire accident in 2019 while the 4K digital restoration was in progress, some of the original 35mm camera negative was lost. In the ensuing months the negative was attempted to be restored as much possible, but a portion of it had been permanently damaged. Lost was not only some of the picture but also the sound in those reels. As a result, Wong had to shorten some of Tony Leung's monologues, but with the work of the restoration crew of L'Immagine Ritrovata, they managed to restore most of the scenes to better quality.

Connections
Featured in The Movie Show: Episode dated 25 May 1997 (1997)

Soundtracks
Cucurrucucu Paloma
by Caetano Veloso

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Featured review

the face of loneliness

In this Wong Kar Wai production, loneliness takes on the face of 3 Chinese travellers who, after alienating themselves from the society they came from, end up at the end of the world. Argentina, which is the antithesis of HK, may be the farthest place you can get from HK, but still they cannot entangle themselves from the emotional baggage they have been carrying. Loneliness is a state of mind which follows you no matter where you are, and ensnarls you when you are at your most vulnerable.

While the story may be more famous as a film about gay relationship, it is in fact, not so. The lead characters just happen to be gay, and loneliness, with all the jealousy and melancholy that comes with it, takes centrestage.