Days of Being Wild (1990)

Days of Being Wild (1990)

Days of Being Wild movie storyline. Set in 1960, the film centres on the young, boyishly handsome Yuddy, who learns from the drunken ex-prostitute who raised him that she is not his real mother. Hoping to hold onto him, she refuses to divulge the name of his real birth mother. The revelation shakes Yuddy to his very core, unleashing a cascade of conflicting emotions.

Two women have the bad luck to fall for Yuddy. One is a quiet lass named Su Lizhen who works at a sports arena, while the other is a glitzy showgirl named Mimi. Perhaps due to his unresolved Oedipal issues, he passively lets the two compete for him, unable or unwilling to make a choice. As Lizhen slowly confides her frustration to a cop named Tide, he falls for her. The same is true for Yuddy’s friend Zeb, who falls for Mimi. Later, Yuddy learns of his birth mother’s whereabouts and heads out to the Philippines.

Days of Being Wild is a 1990 Hong Kong drama film directed by Wong Kar-wai. The film stars some of the best-known actors and actresses in Hong Kong, including Leslie Cheung, Andy Lau, Maggie Cheung, Carina Lau, Jacky Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-wai. Days of Being Wild also marks the first collaboration between Wong and cinematographer Christopher Doyle, with whom he has since made six more films.

Days of Being Wild (1990)

Days of Being Wild Movie Poster (1990)

Days of Being Wild (1990)

Directed by: Kar-Wai Wong
Starring: Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Andy Lau, Carina Lau, Rebecca Pan, Jacky Cheung, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Danilo Antunes, Mei-Mei Hung, Ling-Hung Ling
Screenplay by: Jeffrey Lau, Kar-Wai Wong
Production Design by: William Chang
Cinematography by: Christopher Doyle
Film Editing by: Kit-Wai Kai, Patrick Tam, William Chang
Makeup Department: Shui-Lin, Ming-Fai Tsang
Music by: Terry Chan
Distributed by: In-Gear Films
Release Date: December 15, 1990

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