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2046

  • 2004
  • K-11
  • 2h 9m
IMDb RATING
7.4/10
60K
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2046 (2004)
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DramaRomanceSci-Fi

Several women enter a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years, after the author has lost the woman he considers his one true love.Several women enter a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years, after the author has lost the woman he considers his one true love.Several women enter a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years, after the author has lost the woman he considers his one true love.

  • Director
    • Kar-Wai Wong
  • Writer
    • Kar-Wai Wong
  • Stars
    • Tony Leung Chiu-wai
    • Ziyi Zhang
    • Faye Wong
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.4/10
    60K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Kar-Wai Wong
    • Writer
      • Kar-Wai Wong
    • Stars
      • Tony Leung Chiu-wai
      • Ziyi Zhang
      • Faye Wong
    • 237User reviews
    • 209Critic reviews
    • 78Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 38 wins & 81 nominations

    Videos2

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    Faye Wong in 2046 (2004)
    Ziyi Zhang in 2046 (2004)
    Takuya Kimura and Faye Wong in 2046 (2004)
    Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Ziyi Zhang in 2046 (2004)
    Maggie Cheung in 2046 (2004)
    Ziyi Zhang in 2046 (2004)
    Tony Leung Chiu-wai in 2046 (2004)
    Gong Li in 2046 (2004)
    Gong Li in 2046 (2004)
    Ziyi Zhang in 2046 (2004)
    Ziyi Zhang in 2046 (2004)
    Tony Leung Chiu-wai in 2046 (2004)

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    Tony Leung Chiu-wai
    Tony Leung Chiu-wai
    • Chow Mo-wan
    • (as Tony Leung)
    Ziyi Zhang
    Ziyi Zhang
    • Bai Ling
    Faye Wong
    Faye Wong
    • Wang Jing-wen…
    Gong Li
    Gong Li
    • Su Li-zhen
    Takuya Kimura
    Takuya Kimura
    • Tak…
    Carina Lau
    Carina Lau
    • Lulu…
    Chang Chen
    Chang Chen
    • Mimi's Boyfriend
    Jie Dong
    Jie Dong
    • Wang Jie-wen
    • (as Dong Jie)
    Maggie Cheung
    Maggie Cheung
    • Su Li-zhen
    Thongchai McIntyre
    • Bird
    • (as Bird Thongchai McIntyre)
    Wang Sum
    • Mr. Wang…
    Siu Ping-Lam
    • Ah Ping
    Farini Cheung
    Farini Cheung
    • Party Girl
    Sien Cheung
    • Party girl
    • (as Sabrina Cheung)
    Wah Hong
    Wah Hong
    • Party girl
    Xinyu Jiang
    Xinyu Jiang
    • Robot girl
    To-Hoi Kong
    • Brother Hoi
    Alice Lee
    Alice Lee
    • Hostess
    • Director
      • Kar-Wai Wong
    • Writer
      • Kar-Wai Wong
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      Each character speaks their own languages. Mr. Chow speaks Cantonese, Bai Ling speaks Mandarin, and Tak speaks Japanese, even when talking to each other. Even so, they seem to understand each other perfectly.
    • Quotes

      Chow Mo Wan: Love is all a matter of timing. It's no good meeting the right person too soon or too late. If I'd lived in another time or place... my story might have had a very different ending.

    • Alternate versions
      Chinese version is edited for sexuality in the Ziyi Zhang/Tony Leung love scenes.
    • Connections
      Featured in Belas Artes: A Esquina do Cinema (2012)
    • Soundtracks
      2046 Main Theme
      (Percussion)

      Composed and Arranged by Shigeru Umebayashi

      Licensed To Virgin, EMI

      (p) & © Block 2 Music Company Ltd.

    User reviews237

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    Gloved Hand
    If Welles, Tarkovsky and Kurosawa are the three past masters. Greenaway, Medem and Kar- Wai are the three greatest living filmmakers. All three weave incredibly deep and personal stories which bleed into the act of their creating the film. Each create striking images that resonate deeply, far beyond mere metaphor or exposition. Each worry about the tick of lost opportunity.

    Each are dangerous filmmakers. All have referenced life in a way that not only includes the reality of the cinematic container, but also their own past projects as part of that reality. In this case, we have not a mere continuation of "In the Mood," we have a container about that container, a story that is about writing and the need to write "Mood" coming from the story written within "Mood."

    These parallels are multiplied infinitely so that many writers are writing many stories that sum up to where we live. Each writer, each story, each reality is drawn and extended and molded and eventually ruined by love, indeed the inability to truly love — at least to love and write.

    These projects aren't stories, but meditations on the food of storyweaving, so they move — the several of them in this film — languorously. Before, he relied on repetition for layering; he also denoted the unframing of reality by having his camera drift from the subject. He was afraid to depict loneliness and the consummate joy of deep sex as partners in color.

    That's all gone now. Now we have real encounters, not just longings. Now we have cameras that shift the frame in more creative ways; one almost gets the impression he did the whole project just to be able to explore and master the extremely wide palette he's chosen here. The way shots are cropped so that the scope is more intimate is breathtaking.

    And now we aren't served up nuanced repetition. Each event is new. Each explains and opens more questions, while containing the same substance plotwise. Each whispering in the hole is covered by another reality that spins the need for another whisper.

    I have a list of films that everyone must experience — its not a matter of mere enrichment but a collective path through which one can become a real human. I restrict entries on that list to no more than two a year and no more than two by any one filmmaker.

    This makes the list. Even if you aren't in it for the explicit folding, or the consummate moodbuilding or even the lovely women, you have to appreciate this for its importance in the evolution of editing. How often to you see a film that competently innovates in how images are assembled? There are lots of composition effects I have never seen before, and I study a lot of movies — most of these you might not notice, which is the point. But there's one scene where our hero has an important dinner with a former lover toward the end. The coincidence of images has increased to this point until we have an actual overlapping/sliding.

    We now have a new way to dream.

    Ted's Evaluation -- 4 of 3: Every cineliterate person should experience this.
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    • tedg
    • Mar 25, 2005

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    Details

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    • Release date
      • November 26, 2004 (Finland)
    • Countries of origin
      • Hong Kong
      • China
      • France
      • Italy
      • Germany
    • Official sites
      • Jet Tone Films Ltd (Hong Kong)
      • Océan Films (France)
    • Languages
      • Cantonese
      • Japanese
      • Mandarin
    • Also known as
      • Căn Phòng 2046
    • Filming locations
      • Macau, China
    • Production companies
      • Jet Tone Production
      • Shanghai Film Group
      • Orly Films
    • See more company credits at IMDbPro

    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $12,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $1,444,588
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $113,074
      • Aug 7, 2005
    • Gross worldwide
      • $20,205,757
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      2 hours 9 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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