Film name: In the Mood of Love
Director: Wong Kar-wai
Leading Roles: Tony Leung Maggie Cheung
Date of premier: 2000
Film Introduction: The movie takes place in Hong Kong, 1962. Chow Mo-Wan (Tony Leung Chiu-Wai), a journalist, rents a room in an apartment on the same day as Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung Man-yuk), a secretary from a shipping company. They become next-door neighbours. Each has a spouse who is working and often leaves them alone on overtime shift. Despite the presence of a friendly landlady, Mrs Suen, and bustling, mahjong-playing neighbours, Chow and Su often find themselves alone in their rooms, and they begin to strike up a friendship.
Chow and Su finally admit their shared suspicions that their spouses are cheating on them with each other. Chow persuades Su to re-enact what they imagine might have happened between their partners' and their lovers, and slowly the line between playacting and real romance blurs.
Chow invites Su to help him with a martial arts series that he is writing for the newspaper. As their relationship begins to draw closer, people begin to notice, and Chow and Su try to persuade each other that they will not end up as their spouses. At the end of the movie, Chow leaves Su for a job in Singapore after she rejects his offer to go together. Four years later Su and her young son visit an emigrating Mrs Suen at their old lodgings. Chow, revisiting the place, narrowly misses out meeting up with her. At Phnom Penh, Cambodia, covering the visit of President Charles de Gaulle, Chow visits the Angkor Wat and whispers several years worth of secrets into a hole in a wall, before plugging the hole with mud.
