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In The Mood For Love

Its Origin
Hong Kong

Running Time
98 mins

Genre(s)
Drama
Romance

Director(s)
Wong Kar Wai

Stars
Tony Leung Chiu Wai
Maggie Cheung

DVD Distributor
Daum

DVD Origin
South Korea

Region Code
All

DVD Format
NTSC

Audio Tracks
Cantonese DD 5.0, DD 2.0

Subtitles
Chinese, English, Korean

Screen Format
Anamorphic Widescreen

Special Info
2 DVD Tin Case Limited Edition

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In The Mood For Love


Synopsis
Set in a Shanghaiese enclave in Hong Kong in 1962, two young couples rent adjacent rooms in a cramped and crowded tenement. Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung) works as a secretary in an export company while her husband's job at a Japanese multinational keeps him away on extended business trips. Across the hall, Chow (Tony Leung Chiu Wai) works as a newspaper editor and is married to a woman who is also frequently out of town. Li-zhen and Chow soon strike up a cordial -- if tenative -- friendship. Chow begins to suspect that his wife's long absences are not entirely business related when he stops in unannounced at her office to discover that she is not there. Later, a colleague tells him that he saw his wife with another man. The icing on the cake comes when Chow notices that Li-zhen's handbag is identical to his wife's while Li-zhen discovers that Chow is wearing a tie that she gave her husband; it doesn't take long for them to realize that their spouses are sleeping together.

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