Chinese Box (1997)

Directed by

Wayne Wang

Genre

drama film, romance film, melodrama

Country

France, United States, Japan

Runtime

1h 39m

Rated

R

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 57 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A British journalist in Hong Kong falls for a woman who is waiting for her lover. The story unfolds against the backdrop of the city's handover to China in 1997.

melancholicromanticslow-burnatmosphericbittersweetintimatenostalgicintrospective

What happens

Chinese Box is a 1997 romantic drama film directed by Wayne Wang and starring Jeremy Irons, Gong Li, Maggie Cheung, and Michael Hui. It is set and was made at the time of Hong Kong's handover to the People's Republic of China on June 30, 1997. The film credits Paul Theroux as a source for the story, based on themes he explores in his 1997 novel Kowloon Tong. It enjoyed modest box office success in the United States. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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