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Chang Chen's storyline was completely improvised. Director Kar-Wai Wong discovered the restaurant, China Central, by chance and, seizing Leslie Cheung's absence due to a concert tour, decided to keep shooting. Chang's plot was thus created.,When Po-Wing knocks the packs of cigarettes off the clock, it says 2:38, but then it cuts to another angle of him doing this with the clock saying 3:33, and then it cuts again to the clock saying 2:38.,Lai Yiu-fai: Turns out that lonely people are all the same.,In some prints, Jacques Picoux (the French subtitle translator) is listed twice in a row in the closing credits.,During a fire accident in 2019 while the 4K digital restoration was in progress, some of the original 35mm camera negative was lost. In the ensuing months the negative was attempted to be restored as much possible, but a portion of it had been permanently damaged. Lost was not only some of the picture but also the sound in those reels. As a result, Wong had to shorten some of Tony Leung's monologues, but with the work of the restoration crew of L'Immagine Ritrovata, they managed to restore most of the scenes to better quality.,Featured in The Movie Show: Episode dated 25 May 1997 (1997),Cucurrucucu Paloma
by Caetano Veloso,Innovative, special and inspired. I runned into the cinema, having no idea of what kind of movie was expecting me. It was a big surprise. The story was really nothing that would interest me in anyway, but this is the proof, that beauty is on the form .

What an amazing film! Full of resources and passion. They say it wasn't all new, or maybe any of it, but it was elegant, and unusual.

I was touched, and amazed. For me it was the revelation of a genius. His following works confirmed this impression. Wong Kar Wai is a great artist.

Thank you very much!,