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Released
2000 · FILM

In the Mood for Love

In 1960s British Hong Kong, a journalist and a shipping secretary—both isolated in adjoining apartments—must unravel the tangled affair between their spouses before their fragile lives implode under suspicion and cultural pressure.

“Feel the heat, keep the feeling burning, let the sensation explode.”

Directed by
Wong Kar Wai
Written by
Wong Kar Wai
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
99 min
Language
CN
DramaRomance
Streaming on
  • The Criterion Channel

Synopsis

Set in 1960s Hong Kong, the story follows two neighboring individuals who develop an intimate connection after uncovering information about their respective spouses, portraying a visually striking narrative of unrequited love.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 25

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by William ChangShot by Christopher DoyleScored by Michael Galasso

Box Office

2000 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 5.3× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$15.9M

Budget$3.0M
Worldwide gross$15.9M
break-even (2.5×)

Re-release box office

202524 theaters
$1.1M($1.2M today)

Domestic gross earned in theatrical re-release, by year · adjusted for inflation

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Der Klang der Liebede
  • Fa yeung nin wade
  • In the Mood for Lovede
  • In the Mood for Love - Der Klang der Liebede
  • In the Mood for Loveen
  • 花样年华en
  • In the mood for lovees
  • In the Mood for Lovefr

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