WONG Kar Wai (Director, Producer & Screenplay): Wong Kar Wai was born in Shanghai and moved to Hong Kong with his parents when he was five. He entered the film industry as a scriptwriter and began directing his own scripts in 1988. His debut feature As Tears Go By was invited to the Critics’ Week in Cannes Film Festival. His second feature Days of Being Wild won five Hong Kong Film Awards, including Best Director and Best Film. He founded his own company Jet Tone in 1992 and spent the next two years working on Ashes of Time, shooting mostly on remote locations in China. Chungking Express, made very quickly during a break in the post-production of Ashes of Time, became his first global success; he followed it with the related ‘diptych’ movie Fallen Angels. Shot mostly in Argentina, Happy Together premiered at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival and won the Best Director prize. All of his subsequent features have premiered in Cannes: In the Mood for Love in 2000 (winning the Best Actor prize for Tony Leung Chiu Wai), 2046 in 2004 and his English-language debut My Blueberry Nights in 2007. He served as President of the Jury at Cannes in 2006. In addition to his features, he has made a number of shorter films, including In the Mood for Love 2001 (starring Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Maggie Cheung), Six Days (for the musician DJ Shadow), The Follow (starring Clive Owen, for the BMW on-line series The Hire), and There’s Only One Sun (starring Amelie Daure, for Philips). In 2004, he contributed the episode The Hand to the portmanteau feature Eros, alongside episodes from Michelangelo Antonioni and Steven Soderbergh. In 2007, he made the short I Traveled 9000 km to Give It To You for Gilles Jacob’s project Chacun son cinéma (To Each His Own Cinema), which premiered in Cannes. © Copyright Wild Bunch 2013.
BLOCK 2 PICTURES SIL-METROPOLE ORGANISATION LTD present a WONG KAR WAI film " THE GRANDMASTER " Some seek to recover what is rightfully theirs. Some wish to penetrate the arcane mysteries. Some light fires and some light lamps to show the way forward. Kung fu: between a horizontal and a vertical, dishonour and glory. An era: between the rise and fall, exile and reunion. The path of a Grandmaster: Being. Knowing. Doing. Wong Kar Wai
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THE GRANDMASTER is the highly-anticipated new film by acclaimed director Wong Kar Wai. Six years in the planning and three years in the making, THE GRANDMASTER is an epic action feature inspired by the life and times of the legendary kung fu master, Ip Man. The story spans the tumultuous Republican era that followed the fall of China’s last dynasty, a time of chaos, division and war that was also the golden age of Chinese martial arts. Filmed in a range of stunning locations that include the snow-swept landscapes of Northeast China and the subtropical South, THE GRANDMASTER features virtuoso performances by some of the greatest stars of contemporary cinema. With THE GRANDMASTER, Wong Kar Wai has made a kung fu film like no other. Years of research before production and a virtual battalion of martial arts trainers on set ensured that THE GRANDMASTER portrays both the Chinese martial arts and the world of the martial artists with unprecedented authenticity, with fight scenes choreographed by renowned action choreographer Yuen Wo Ping (Matrix, Kill Bill, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, etc). The trio of international superstars at the film’s heart – Tony Leung, Ziyi Zhang and Chang Chen – all underwent several years of rigorous and extremely challenging kung fu training for their roles. Shot by French Director of Photography Philippe Le Sourd and with art direction by Wong’s long-term collaborators William Chang Suk Ping and Alfred Yau Wai Ming,THE GRANDMASTER represents a new chapter in the martial arts genre and in Wong Kar Wai’s own stellar career.