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Days of Being Wild

Name: Amazon.com: Days of Being Wild : Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Andy Lau, Carina Lau, Rebecca Pan, Jacky Cheung, Danilo Antunes, Mei-Mei Hung, Ling-Hung Ling, Tita Muoz, Alicia Alonzo, Elena Lim So, Kar Wai Wong, Jeffrey Lau, Kar Wai Wong: Movies & TV
Rating: 3.8 (60 reviews)

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Format	Multiple Formats, Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, NTSC, Subtitled
Contributor	Leslie Cheung, Tita Muoz, Jeffrey Lau, Jacky Cheung, Mei-Mei Hung, Alicia Alonzo, Kar Wai Wong, Maggie Cheung, Danilo Antunes, Rebecca Pan, Ling-Hung Ling, Andy Lau, Elena Lim So, Carina Lau See more
Language	Cantonese
Runtime	1 hour and 34 minutes

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Days Of Being Wild

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Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.85:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ Unrated (Not Rated)
Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.1 x 5.3 x 0.5 inches; 3.2 ounces
Director ‏ : ‎ Kar Wai Wong
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, NTSC, Subtitled
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 34 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ October 19, 2004
Actors ‏ : ‎ Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Andy Lau, Carina Lau, Rebecca Pan
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
Studio ‏ : ‎ Kino Lorber films
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0002X7GWU
Writers ‏ : ‎ Jeffrey Lau, Kar Wai Wong
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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David Srein

First of a great trilogy!

Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2015

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This is a classic movie and part of the trilogy that includes In The Mood For Love and 2046. If you are a fan of Chinese dramas that keep you in your seat this is a great love story and trilogy. The three movies are s must for every real movie buff.

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Sol

While we wait...

Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2019

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Days of Being Wild is one of those films that you watch and won’t retain right away. It takes multiple watches to really get it ingrained in your memory. It might seem like a mark against the film but in reality, it’s something that makes it so interesting. The film feels so light and serene despite the inner turmoils of the characters and the underlying melancholy of the film.

It’s a shame that the only American release was a Kino Lorber DVD from 2004. Despite it currently being the superior version of the film for English-speakers to watch (though MegaStar released a beautiful looking Bluray, the subtitle translation in English is badly broken. Almost entirely unintelligible.), the Kino Lorber DVD leaves much to be desired in the way of Special Features and even the image quality (now that we’ve entered the age of 4k and 1080p) Still, this is the definitive edition to watch or own while we await the inevitable restoration.

Currently, a restoration has been announced, along with Wong Kar-Wai’s entire filmography, for a 2020 box-set release to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Kar-Wai’s most recognized masterpiece, In The Mood For Love. Criterion and Janus Films are likely the only way to release it now but it’s still nice to think that, for the time being, Kino had it covered.

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Laurence

Love this film

Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2018

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One of my favorite film!! Wong Kai Wai and Leslie Cheung were perfect for each other. Wish there is a sequel film for Tony Leung.

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Murgatroyd

Terrible translation ruins movie

Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2013

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Wong Kar Wai is one of my favorite directors and I'm happy to see so many of his films coming to Blu Ray. I don't normally review purchases but I had to review this one to deter other fans out there from purchasing this blu ray release. The visual quality is fantastic on this release but the subtitles are AWFUL. It's written in broken english with really bad grammar. The horrible translation ruins the poetic nature of the dialogue and completely ruins the movie. Wait for a criterion release of this film.

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Han Hu

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2017

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It's My Life, It's Everyone's Life

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Alan A. Elsner

not enjoyable for non-intellectuals

Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2008

I have just read a lengthy review of this movie hailing it as an existential masterpiece. What's wrong with me? I didn't like it at all and found it all but unintelligible. Perhaps I'm just not intellectual enough. All I want from a movie is a good plot, good actors, good photography, a story I can understand and characters I can get involved with. Is that too much to ask?
Here we have a hero who treats the two women in his life like crap. His problem apparently stems from his adoptive mother who took him for the money and refuses to reveal the identity of his birth mother. Eventually, after a lot of yack, she does so but when the protagonist travels to meet her, he is rejected. Suddenly, after all this, there is a shoot-out in a restaurant and another one on a train (why this happens, don't ask me because I totally didn't get it) and everyone dies. End of story.
I did like the noirish atmosphere surrounding this movie, most of which seems to happen in the pouring rain, but the "hero" seems to be a case of arrested development who can't stop combing his greasy hair. Why two attractive women fall so hard for him I couldn't say. Perhaps they have masochistic tendencies. Perhaps I did too, sticking this out to its totally unsatisfying end.

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R.S.

Great picture and sound... but...

Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2009

Terrible english subtitles! This is a Hong Kong release and I have found them to usually have bad english subtitling but I didnt know that when this first came out and went ahead and bought it. The letters are readable but they look like they were translated by someone who didnt have a great grasp on the English language. This is really unfortunate because it is a really great movie as are most by Wong Kar-Wai. I decided to keep both the blu-ray and the Kino standard DVD edition. I can watch the blu-ray and still understand it enough but when I am showing the film to a friend I will pop in the Kino release even though the transfer and sound are far inferior so they can understand the plot.

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Isalot Telu Ynme

yes, we have a review here, we have a review today!

Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2006

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the movie is superb.

my best friend really loves it.

it is her favourite movie.

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Bon Selibio

Nice product! nice chinese movie

Reviewed in Canada on October 22, 2020

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Great product, arrived on time

Fan

Trotz Kritik gekauft - und Sehr sehr zufrieden

Reviewed in Germany on November 24, 2013

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Lange habe ich gezögert den Film zu kaufen, gerade wegen der hier in weiteren Rezensionen angebrachten Kritik bezüglich Sound und Qualität.

Letztlich habe ich mich doch dazu durchgerungen, vor allem auch nach etwas Recherche beim Filmverleiher Alamode.
Auf dieser DVD (Cover mit Braun-Tönen -- untere Hälfte sitzende Frau -- obere Hälfte mehrere Personen -- also die Alamode-Version) sind die deutsche und kantonesische Audio-Spur enthalten. Untertitel ist auf Deutsch möglich.
Etwaige Specials gibts nicht.

Der Sound ist bei Wong-Kar-Wei bekanntlich ja sehr sehr wichtig - das musikalische Thema ist in seinen Filmen (siehe "In the mood for love" - oder "2046") unersetzlich und stimmungsbildend.

Ich hatte somit nach den krassen negativ-Bewertungen erhebliche Bedenken - doch zu meiner größten Freude wurde ich freudig überrascht: es ist der Originalsound. Die Audiospur ist super, und anschließend ist man in den Soundtrack verliebt. Perfekt.

Das Bild ist in der Tat ab und an mit etwas kleinen Unsauberkeiten - aber lange nicht so, dass man sich wirklich gestört fühlen würde.

Fazit:
Ich bin überaus zufrieden, mir diesen Film gekauft zu haben - Kantonesisch mit deutschem Untertitel war es ein echter Genuss. Wer Wong Kar Wais Filme mag (vor allem den puristischen Stil wie etwa bei "In the mood for love") der wird seine allergrößte Freude haben.

Also keine Sorge - falls es alternative Tonversionen dieses Films gibt - bei dieser DVD handelt es sich NICHT darum.

Also Nachdrückliche Empfehlung - gerade für Menschen denen nicht der HD-Faktor entscheidend ist für den Filmgenuss, sondern Komposition, Ausdrucksstärke, Ton, Stimmung etc.

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First masterpiece from Wong Kar-Wai.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 4, 2006

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A film about time and dislocation; establishing themes that would be further explored in the director's later works, Chungking Express, Happy Together, and, more importantly, In The Mood For Love, and 2046. Wong had already stated that Days Of Being Wild should be seen as the first part in a trilogy of films, each dealing with the issues of love, obsession, time and memory, set against a back-drop of 1960's Hong Kong. Although I'm not going to delve into any great detail as to how these three films correlate to one another, it should be noted that the character of Su-Li Zhen, one of the first to be introduced in this film, is most likely the same Su-Li Zhen so pivotal to the relationships of In The Mood For Love and 2046. Also, there's the brief appearance by Tony Leung in the final scene here, with his character - hinted to be a gambling, feckless womaniser, not too dissimilar to Days' central character, Yuddy - seeming to be the blue-print for the character of Mr. Chow in those two aforementioned masterworks.
As a stand-alone piece, Days can be appreciated for it's painterly style and lingering use of atmosphere. It certainly works better as a piece of entertainment if we tie it in with Wong's last two films, but there's nothing lost if you've yet to see them. At its heart, Days is a youth film, a melodrama about listless youth congregating around Yuddy, a Cantonese James Dean and legend in his own time. As a character, Yuddy can occasionally seem rather loathsome... he's an arrogant, feckless womaniser, who casts aside his conquests without compassion or humility. He also refuses to work... instead, he leaches off his adoptive mother, a former courtesan who longs for a new life with an unseen man in the U.S., but, at the same time, she refuses to live without the love of her son. It's this kind of emotional paradox that really defines Wong's work on this film, with many of the characters having contradictory elements that ultimately make them all the more human. It is also important to note the relationships between Yuddy and his - in a sense - two mothers (the one we see and the one we don't), as they are really the very backbone to the prevailing theme of the film.
As he states himself towards the beginning of the film, Yuddy is a man who can't concern himself with the affections of one woman... however, this is the real point of interest in Wong's film, in the sense that what Yuddy really needs is the love of ONE woman, in this case, his birth mother. The torturous relationship between Yuddy and his adopted mother is straight out of a Hollywood melodrama, as the pair argue over money, aspirations, and their equally rootless personal lives... though, ultimately, the argument always comes back to Yuddy's quest for the mother that long-ago gave him away. The sensitive layers of this character, who at first appears to be completely devoid of human emotions, though, ultimately, proves himself to be a sensitive and isolated young soul, is exceptionally observed by Wong and perfectly performed by the late Leslie Cheung, in what is, perhaps, his best film role.
Yuddy's influence on the other characters in the film is also important to note, as it establishes another thread to Wong's story... that being obsession, influence, emulation and mirroring. The first female character we are introduced to is the aforementioned Su-Li Zhen, a shy young woman who works in the ticket booth at the local sports stadium. The opening scenes of the film, which draw heavily on the repetitious use of imagery - with Wong and his cinematographer Christopher Doyle establishing a number of iconic images surrounding the characters (particularly time, which is a prevalent factor throughout) - show us Yuddy's various attempts to seduce the seemingly disinterested Su-Li. Eventually, through cool charm and empty sentiment, he manages to woo the young woman, holding her close to him in one of the film's key-scenes and declaring themselves "one-minute friends", as he counts down 60 seconds on his watch and says that wherever he goes, he'll always remember her for this shared-moment.
The monologue here is another important theme, again, going back to the idea of time and wasted opportunities. Another thread to the story involves a lonely policeman who walks the late-night streets outside Yuddy's high-priced apartment. One night, after Su-Li realises that she has been replaced, by the brash showgirl Mimi (a.k.a. Lulu, another reoccurring character from 2046), the policeman comes to her aid... offering her cab fair home on the first night, then walking with her through the empty and nocturnal streets for a second. Eventually, the policeman will come to love Su-Li as obsessively as she loves the unconcerned Yuddy, a three-way relationship that will feature significantly in the film's final act...
Throughout the film, Wong is playing with the conventions of the melodrama, in the way filmmakers like Fassbinder did in the 1970's, or Douglas Sirk before him, in the idea of taking certain characters, archetypes and iconography from Hollywood, but re-adapting them into a framework that is much more personal. The creation (or recreation) of 1960's Hong Kong is far removed from most period films, with Wong and Doyle creating an almost existential world of grasping nocturnal shadows and autumnal colours that seem to be modelled on the works of Edward Hopper. It's not quite as technically draw-dropping as his more recent films, in particular, the glorious visual fantasia of 2046, but it is, regardless, an important piece of work in the career of this master filmmaker.

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Hengda

Five Stars

Reviewed in Canada on July 18, 2016

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It's a Wont Kar-wai classic. What else to say here?

anya

Days of Being Wild von Wong Kar Wai

Reviewed in Germany on June 2, 2012

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Days of Being Wild - mit einer seiner besten filme
von Wong Kar Wai. wer abr einen flatsceen hat, ist blueray die bessere auflösung, oder eben der gute alte röhrenfernsehr

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