As Tears Go By (film)

As Tears Go By
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese旺角卡門
Simplified Chinese旺角卡门
Literal meaningMong Kok Carmen
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinWàngjiǎo Kǎmén
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingWong6gok3 Kaa1mun4
Directed byWong Kar-wai
Written by
Produced byAlan Tang
Starring
CinematographyAndrew Lau
Edited byCheung Pei-tak
Hai Kit-wai
William Chang (uncredited)
Music byDanny Chung
Teddy Robin
Production
company
Distributed byKino International
Release date
  • 9 June 1988 (1988-06-09)
Running time
102 minutes
CountryHong Kong
LanguageCantonese
Box officeHK$11,532,283
(Hong Kong)
$9,436
(United States)[1]

As Tears Go By is a 1988 Hong Kong action crime drama film starring Andy Lau, Maggie Cheung and Jacky Cheung. The film was the directorial debut of Wong Kar-wai, and was inspired by Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets.[2] The central plot revolves around a small-time triad member trying to keep his friend out of trouble. The film was screened at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival, during International Critics' Week.[3]

  1. ^ "As Tears Go By". BoxOfficeMojo.com. Retrieved 22 July 2011.
  2. ^ Mottram, James (7 December 2014). "Wong Kar-Wai interview: the revered film director on returning to his first love - kung fu". The Independent. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
  3. ^ Bettinson, Gary (2014). The Sensuous Cinema of Wong Kar-wai: Film Poetics and the Aesthetic of Disturbance. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. p. xvi. ISBN 978-9888139293.