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Happy Together

Original title: Chun gwong ja sit
  • 1997
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 36m
IMDb RATING
7.7/10
36K
YOUR RATING
Happy Together (1997)
Home Video Trailer from Kino International
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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.

  • Director
    • Wong Kar-Wai
  • Writers
    • Wong Kar-Wai
    • Manuel Puig
  • Stars
    • Leslie Cheung
    • Tony Leung Chiu-wai
    • Chang Chen
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    • IMDb RATING
    7.7/10
    36K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Wong Kar-Wai
    • Writers
      • Wong Kar-Wai
      • Manuel Puig
    • Stars
      • Leslie Cheung
      • Tony Leung Chiu-wai
      • Chang Chen
    • 122User reviews
    • 64Critic reviews
    • 70Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 7 wins & 20 nominations total

    Videos1

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    Trailer 1:26
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    Leslie Cheung
    Leslie Cheung
    • Ho Po-wing
    Tony Leung Chiu-wai
    Tony Leung Chiu-wai
    • Lai Yiu-fai
    • (as Tony Chiu Wai Leung)
    Chang Chen
    Chang Chen
    • Chang
    Gregory Dayton
    • Lover
    Shirley Kwan
    Shirley Kwan
    • Fai's Girlfriend
    • (scenes deleted)
    • Director
      • Wong Kar-Wai
    • Writers
      • Wong Kar-Wai
      • Manuel Puig
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    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

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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

    User reviews122

    Featured review
    9/10

    Brilliant & Touching Story of loneliness & dislocation

    I didn't think so the first time I saw HAPPY TOGETHER, but I really think this film is a masterpiece. Technically it's amazing - the hand-held camera-work is incredible, and the mindbending shifts from saturated colors to monochrome (which I first felt was a stylish stunt) really underscores the loneliness and alienation of the characters brilliantly - the overall effect by the films' end is devastating.

    HAPPY TOGETHER was apparently also - at least partially - inspired by the Argentine novelist Manuel Puig, author of 'Kiss Of The Spider Woman' among many other novels, and Puig's fiction tackles similar issues in a similarly fractured style (filled with footnotes, digressions and sudden shifts in perspective), all to incredibly powerful emotional effect.

    If HAPPY TOGETHER is something of an homage to Puig, it's a great one. On it's own it's also a devastating portrait of a disintegrating relationship.
    • davidals
    • Sep 15, 2003
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    Details

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    • Release date
      • May 30, 1997 (Hong Kong)
    • Countries of origin
      • Hong Kong
      • South Korea
      • Japan
    • Languages
      • Cantonese
      • Spanish
      • English
      • Mandarin
    • Also known as
      • Spring Brilliance Suddenly Pours Out
    • Filming locations
      • Taipei City, Taiwan
    • Production companies
      • Jet Tone Production
      • Block 2 Pictures
      • Seowoo Film Company
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $4,200,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $320,319
    • Gross worldwide
      • $1,539,811
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    Tech specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 36 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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