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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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)
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2/dyuo (1997)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.