Name: Days of Being Wild
Released: 1991

Days of Being Wild

Synopsis

Yuddy, a Hong Kong playboy known for breaking girls' hearts, tries to find solace and truth after discovering the woman who raised him isn't his mother.

Year1991

CountryHong Kong

DirectorWong Kar-wai

MovementHong Kong New Wave

Cinematic DNA

I watched 'Days of Being Wild' a lot when I was putting 'Moonlight' together, and 'If Beale Street Could Talk.' There’s a particular shot where Tony Leung is just sitting in the room alone and smoking a cigarette and he’s wearing a tank top, and the way the light is coming across his body, and the texture of his skin and the smoke, it’s just the most beautiful thing.

I feel like he's one of the first filmmakers that made me realize that filmmaking is an art. He was such a visceral filmmaker, the way he would use color and light and music to create a mood and a feeling.

— Lulu Wang · IndieWire

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This Film Influenced

→ Moonlight (2016) → Lost in Translation (2003)